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Soul Survivor

The revival and hidden treasure of Aretha Franklin.
by David Remnick via The New Yorker on April 4, 2016
Workers on the wreck of the General Slocum, North Brother Island, New York City, June 1904.

Witness to Tragedy: The Sinking of the General Slocum

“Terrible, terrible! A thousand casualties. And heartrending scenes. Men trampling down women and children. Most brutal thing…” — James Joyce, Ulysses
by Ted Houghtaling via New-York Historical Society on February 24, 2016
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A Brief History of the Holiday Card

Americans purchase approximately 1.6 billion holiday cards a year. Why is this tradition so popular?
by Ellen F. Brown via JSTOR Daily on December 20, 2015
Clara Newton at her home outside Baltimore, holding a picture of her son Odell, who has been in prison for 41 years for a crime he committed when he was 16. State officials have recommended Odell for release three times since 1992, but he has not been freed. August 4, 2015.

The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Politicians are suddenly eager to disown failed policies on American prisons, but they have failed to reckon with the history.
by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on September 15, 2015

“Sacred Ties Existing Between Parent and Child”: Citizenship, Family, and Immigrant Parents

Inclusion and humanitarianism used to be part of the immigration policy of the United States.
by Hidetaka Hiroka via We're History on August 21, 2015
Drawing of a woman standing with blurred people behind her and computer text boxes pointing to her face.

Cracking the Code

It's impossible for most black Americans to construct full family trees, but genetic testing can provide some clues.
by Jesmyn Ward via The New Yorker on May 14, 2015
Sinking of the Lusitania

Life Aboard the Lusitania

Reliving the Sinking of the Lusitania Through the Eyes of a Survivor-My Great-Grandmother
by Emily Walker via Slate on May 7, 2015

Mother’s Day or Mothers’ Day

The origins of the Hallmark holiday are rooted in a much greater cause.
by Heather Cox Richardson via We're History on May 7, 2015
Portrait of stern looking John Winthrop.

Father’s Property and Child Custody in the Colonial Era

The rights and responsibilities of 17th-century fatherhood in England's North American colonies.
by Mary Ann Mason via Berkeley Law (University Of California) on April 11, 2015
Woman holding a turkey on a platter.
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The Modern Invention of Thanksgiving

The holiday emerged not from the 17th century, but rather from concerns over immigration and urbanization in the 19th century.
by Anne Blue Wills, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on November 26, 2014

My Great-Great-Grandfather and an American Indian Tragedy

A personal investigation of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864.
by Michael Allen via The Wall Street Journal on November 24, 2014
Family photo.

Where Do Children’s Earliest Memories Go?

Our first three years are usually a blur and we don’t remember much before age seven. What are we hiding from ourselves?
by Kristin Ohlson via Aeon on July 30, 2014
Death Bed of Lincoln
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This Republic of Suffering

The enormous scale of death in the Civil War, and how it altered the American way of dying.
via BackStory on May 23, 2014
Family tree

Your Family: Past, Present, and Future

The past, present, and future of your family tree are all far more fascinating than you realize.
by Tim Urban via Wait But Why on January 28, 2014
Jimi Hendrix performing at Woodstock.

The Beautiful Sounds of Jimi Hendrix

“Hendrix used a range of technological innovations...to expand the sound of the guitar, to make it ‘talk’ in ways that it never had.”
by Adam Shatz via New York Review of Books on January 9, 2014
C. L. Franklin and his daughter Aretha.

The Man with the Million Dollar Voice

The mighty but divided soul of C.L. Franklin.
by Tony Scherman via The Believer on July 1, 2013
Young boy holding the Communist sickle and hammer, in black and white

Revisions in Red

A scholar wrestles with the legacy of her grandfather, onetime leader of America’s Communist Party.
by Laura Browder via The Chronicle of Higher Education on November 19, 2012
Trademark registration by Peninsular Stove Company for "Peninsular" Furnaces Stoves and Ranges.
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Family Time

What winter was like before the stove revolution, and the tension between comfort and family values.
via BackStory on August 17, 2012
Confederate soldier with wife and baby.
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Fighting for Home

How the idea of “home” motivated Confederate soldiers, and strengthened their resolve to fight.
via BackStory on March 31, 2011
Illustrated cover of the "Secret Garden"

100 Years of The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett's biographer considers her life and how personal tragedy underpinned the creation of her most famous work.
by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina via The Public Domain Review on March 8, 2011
Reconstruction of Mt. Malady hospital at Henricus Historical Park, Virginia.
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Health Care in the New World

Reporter Catherine Moore visits the first hospital in the New World and finds out why the “public plan” in the Virginia colony may have had its drawbacks.
via BackStory on October 1, 2009
Photograph of blues singer Robert Johnson, playing guitar, 1936.

Searching for Robert Johnson

In the seven decades since his mysterious death, bluesman Robert Johnson’s legend has grown.
by Frank DiGiacomo via Vanity Fair on October 1, 2008
Prescott Bush, Dorothy Bush, and George H. W. Bush at the White House.

How Bush's Grandfather Helped Hitler's Rise to Power

Rumors of a link between Prescott Bush and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. They were right.
by Duncan Campbell via The Guardian on September 25, 2004

Bringing Rapes to Court

How sexual assault victims in colonial America navigated a legal system that was enormously stacked against them.
by Sharon Block via Commonplace on April 1, 2003
Joe Biden as a new Senator, sitting next to framed photographs of his family

Death and the All-American Boy

Joe Biden was a lot more careful around the press after this 1974 profile.
by Kitty Kelley via Washingtonian on June 1, 1974
Photographer Gordon Parks and Norman Fontanelli, whose family is the subject of Parks's photojournalism.
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Gordon Parks' Diary of a Harlem Family

Narrated photo journal of time spent with a family to discuss poverty and race.
by Public Broadcast Laboratory via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on March 3, 1968
Gracie Mansion.

The Ghosts of Gracie Mansion, Which Zohran Mamdani and Rama Duwaji Now Call Home

“The house has been home to some of the greatest mayors in our city’s history,” Eric Adams tells Vanity Fair, “and it truly radiates that energy."
by Elise Taylor via The Hive on January 14, 2026
A collage of people speaking and listening.

The Last Days of the Southern Drawl

By the end of my life, there may be no one left who speaks like my father outside the hollers and the one-horse towns.
by Annie Joy Williams via The Atlantic on January 4, 2026
Robert Crumb

How Robert Crumb Inspired the Underground Comix Movement

Crumb's work was called sexist, racist, and obscene, but even his critics often acknowledged that he was hilarious and original.
by Jay Kinney via Reason on December 24, 2025
Shakers dancing during worship.

Once Seen as a Threat to Society, Shakers Are Now Part of the Sound of America

A new film depicts part of the long history of Shaker worship.
by Christian Goodwillie via The Conversation on December 22, 2025
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