fatherhood

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.

Steven Spielberg’s early films conjure all of his moviemaking magic to repair a world of lost dads.

In the late 1800s, advice writers targeting white, middle-class Americans began encouraging men to become more engaged in the emotional lives of their households.

From MLK to Obama, advancers for civil rights were driven by their fatherhood and dreams of better life for their own children.

Find out how one woman asked to recognize the fathers in her town and inspired others.

A new volume of Robert Frost’s letters finds him at the height of his artistic powers while suffering an almost unimaginable series of losses.

"I think the key change for the invention of the modern father is in the 1920s," says historian Robert L. Griswold.

Ralph LaRossa explains the problems with mythologizing modern dads and the stereotypes present within views of fatherhood of the past.

Contrary to both far right and mainstream center-left, there’s no epidemic of chosen childlessness.

How a best-selling series gave young readers a new sense of agency.

Why Barnum Brown could not stop collecting.

Benjamin Franklin's writing about losing his son to smallpox is a must-read for parents weighing COVID-19 vaccines today.

The more sons a Founding Father had, the more supportive he was of a strong centralized government.

The righteous rage of John Brown.

Ben Marks on all that came of one interview in 1994.

On the mournful threads connecting his half-century in politics.

Lee’s beloved father figure was a talking point during the Kavanaugh hearings and is now coming to Broadway. Is he still a hero?

Poet Joshua Rivkin’s new book about Cy Twombly is “stranger and more personal than a biography.”

In his later years, the famous writer surrounded himself with a bevy of adoring adolescents.

Stephanie Hall provides examples of folklore and storytelling within a fathers' relationship to music.

The fate of Aaron Burr's daughter remains a topic of contention.

The mighty but divided soul of C.L. Franklin.

Ask George Washington.

Some of my ancestors had money, and some held awful beliefs. I set out to investigate what I once stood to inherit.

Considering the lessons and history of Crockett Johnson’s classic.

Meet the duo who helped achieve the most important labor and civil rights victories of their age.

When my father moved to Taiwan, a fax machine and a shared love of music bridged an ocean.

John Gunther’s “Death Be Not Proud” defied a nation’s reluctance to describe personal loss.

“Rescue Me,” on repeat.

Refusing myths of joy and pain in slave narratives.