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William Franklin

Why Did Benjamin Franklin’s Son Remain Loyal to the British?

One of the most influential and ardent Patriots couldn’t persuade his son to join the Revolution.

by Stacy Schiff via The Atlantic on October 8, 2025

Collage of photos from a Holocaust survivor.

Uncanny Testimony

As the last Holocaust survivors approach the end of their lives, an AI scholar grapples with technology that promises to freeze them in time.

by Benjamin Charles Germain Lee via Longreads on September 25, 2025

"Coyote Survives the Night," diptych of coyote crucified and carving wood by Ed Archie NoiseCat.

Indian Names

A personal exploration through Indigenous history and the importance of names.

by Julian Brave NoiseCat via The Paris Review on September 17, 2025

John Cheever.

John Cheever’s Secrets

In a new memoir, Susan Cheever searches for the wellspring of her father’s genius.

by Adam Begley via The Atlantic on September 9, 2025

Gouverneur Morris.

The One-Legged Founding Father Who Escaped the French Revolution

Gouverneur Morris wrote the preamble to the Constitution. Later in life, he rejected the foundational document as a failure.

by Zachary Clary via Smithsonian Magazine on September 2, 2025

Patsy Cline

Still “Crazy” for Patsy Cline

Since her untimely death in 1963, the legendary country music star continues to inspire new audiences and artists.

by Holley Snaith via American Heritage on September 1, 2025

Silhouettes of a family, three wearing shirts showing matching DNA shirts, and one with different DNA.

The Family Fallout of DNA Surprises

Through genetic testing, millions of Americans have discovered family secrets. The news has upended relationships and created a community looking for answers.

by Jennifer Wilson via The New Yorker on August 18, 2025

Demonstrators march, carrying signs against firing City College faculty.

Eric Foner’s Personal History

Reflecting on his decades-long career, the historian considers what his field of study owes to the public.

by Eric Foner via The Nation on August 14, 2025

A Farm Security Administration representative visits Seabrook Farms in New Jersey in May 1938.

Destiny of the Dispossessed Spinach Prince

John Seabrook’s history of Seabrook Farms, where many incarcerated Japanese Americans worked during WWII, is ultimately about fathers and sons.

by Nick Ripatrazone via The Bulwark on July 25, 2025

Collage of documents and a sampler that record genealogical information.

Why 18th-Century Americans Were Just as Obsessed With Their Genealogy as We Are Today

People living in British America and later the nascent United States recorded their family histories in needlework samplers, notebooks and newspapers.

by Karin Wulf via Smithsonian Magazine on July 17, 2025

Mugshot of a man staring blandly into the camera.

What I Inherited from My Criminal Great-Grandparents

In working through the Winter case files, I often felt pinpricks of déjà vu: an exact turn of phrase, an absurdly specific expenditure.

by Jessica Winter via The New Yorker on July 14, 2025

Elaine Yoneda superimposed on an American flag.

The Tale of Elai Yoneda, a Jewish Woman in a Japanese American Concentration Camp

The strange fate of mixed-race families in prisons during World War II.

by Tracy Slater via Literary Hub on July 10, 2025

Kurt Vonnegut portrait composed of dots.

The Making of Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Cat’s Cradle’

How the novelist turned the violence and randomness of war into a cosmic joke.

by Noah Hawley via The Atlantic on July 2, 2025

Engraving of Founding Fathers reading the Declaration of Independence while onlookers rally.

Does America Have a Founding Philosophy?

It depends on how you read the Declaration’s “self-evident” truths.

by James R. Stoner, Jr. via Modern Age on July 1, 2025

Pages from Eve Adams' Polish passport.

Deported From the U.S. for Publishing 'Lesbian Love,' She Was Later Killed by Nazis

Eve Adams was imprisoned for disorderly conduct and obscenity, then sent back to Europe, where she became a target of the Holocaust.

by Kellie B. Gormly via Smithsonian Magazine on June 26, 2025

Brent Bozell and William F. Buckley, reading a book about Joseph McCarthy.

All In the Family

How William F. Buckley Jr. turned his father’s private convictions and prejudices into a major political movement.

by Paul Baumann via Commonweal on June 26, 2025

Lee Pattie Registrar's Report

Trouble with the Brothers: Booze, Divorce, and Madness in the American West

The past really is a foreign country, as historian Jonathan Ablard finds when piecing together the turbulent history of his ancestors in the West and Midwest.

by Jonathan Ablard via Tropics of Meta on June 23, 2025

Malcolm X holding his daughter Qubilah.

Malcolm X the Girl Dad Was Hidden in Plain Sight

On the other side of the hardened activist was a man who stirred his coffee with his daughter's finger and told her it made it sweet.

by Mark Anthony Neal via Level Magazine on May 19, 2025

Pope Leo XIV in front of a crowd.

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a Broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

Repelled by American racism, thousands of free people of color bounced between New Orleans and Haiti in the 19th century.

by Chelsea Stieber via The Conversation on May 14, 2025

Mark Twain

Mark Twain and the Limits of Biography

The great American writer witnessed the forging of his nation – but Ron Chernow’s portrait cannot see beyond its subject.

by Erica Wagner via New Statesman on May 12, 2025

Ronald Reagan and his mother.

Ronald Reagan’s Guiding Light

Having inherited his mother’s beliefs, Reagan was ever faithful to the Disciples of Christ, whose tenets were often at odds with those of the GOP.

by Richard D. Mahoney via JSTOR Daily on April 30, 2025

Rachel Cockerell’s “Melting Point" tells the story of an exiled people and their effort to find a place to call home.

When Jews Sought the Promised Land in Texas

While some Jewish exiles dreamed of a homeland in Palestine, the Jewish Territorial Organization fixed its hopes on Galveston.

by Kathryn Schulz via The New Yorker on April 28, 2025

Painting by Hiroki Kawanabe titled Wide Street.

Legacies of Japanese American Incarceration

Brandon Shimoda’s book about the memorialization of Japanese internment camps also speaks to the brutal system of migrant detention that continues to this day.

by Francisco Cantú via New York Review of Books on April 3, 2025

William and Henry James.

William and Henry James

Examining the tumultuous bond between the two brothers.

by Peter Brooks via The Paris Review on April 1, 2025

Children at the Oakland Community School, 1973.

What Happens When the U.S. Declares War on Your Parents?

The Black Panthers shook America before the party was gutted by the government. Their children paid a steep price, but also emerged with unassailable pride.

by Ed Pilkington via The Guardian on March 25, 2025

Historian Martha S. Jones and photos of her relatives.

How a Leading Black Historian Uncovered Her Own Family’s Painful Past

Martha S. Jones’ new memoir draws on genealogical research and memories shared by relatives.

by Martha S. Jones, Sara Georgini via Smithsonian Magazine on March 5, 2025

A family of formerly enslaved people outside their house in Fredericksburg, Virginia, circa 1862–1865.

The Missing Persons of Reconstruction

Enslaved families were regularly separated. A new history chronicles the tenacious efforts of the emancipated to be reunited with their loved ones.

by Joshua D. Rothman via The New Republic on February 26, 2025

David Levering Lewis and his book overlaid on a stained glass window.

No Nation Under Their Feet

A historian explores his own family's history to understand the African-American community’s internal pigmentocracy and the absurdity of racial binaries.

by David Levering Lewis, Steve Nathans-Kelly via Chicago Review of Books on February 14, 2025

A drawing of Confederate soldiers on horseback violently forcing Black people to walk south.

After Confederate Forces Took Their Children, These Black Mothers Fought to Reunite Their Families

Confederates kidnapped free Black people to sell into slavery. After the war, two women sought help from high places to track down their lost loved ones.

by Robert K. D. Colby via Smithsonian Magazine on February 6, 2025

Louis Armstrong performs on the Kraft Music Hall TV show at NBC Studios in Brooklyn in June 1967 in New York.

Louis Armstrong’s Difficult Upbringing Revealed in Family Police Records

A new book reveals the jazz musician’s mother and sister were arrested several times for prostitution in New Orleans.

by Dalya Alberge via The Guardian on February 1, 2025

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