generations

An in-depth look at horse breeding.

On the complex history of “passing” in America.

A generation is still dying younger than it should—this time, of “natural causes.”

For members of the Hip Hop generation who came of age during the Black Power era, “reality rap” was an entry into the political power of Black history.

The turn-of-the-century literary canon, using data from college syllabi.

We're born with a hunger for connection with our ancestors – both biological and spiritual.

On the importance of material ownership in the context of Black history.

The defining boundaries and problematic categorizations carried by our culture's treatment of the label "millennial."

Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan on the data illusion of the rags-to-riches stories.

The Lehman Trilogy proposes that the downfall of a financial dynasty is enough to tell the economic and political history of America.

She’s been canonized as a hero of both mainstream literature and radical politics. Who was she really?

The poet’s memoir Generations is both a chronicle of her ancestral lineage and lesson in the centrality of Black women to the story of American history.

Early American salt makers exploited productive precedents established by generations of people who had engaged with salt resources for thousands of years.

A century of tax avoidance later, the dynasties created in the 1900s are going strong.

Which songs will future generations use to characterize the decade?

A Pulitzer historian assesses what we are to make of UVA’s founder, 200 years hence.

As he told a friend years later, "the kiss of Walt Whitman is still on my lips."

They have shaped America, but how old were they on Independence Day?

Forty years ago, Willie, Waylon, Jerry Jeff, and a whole host of Texas misfits brought the hippies and rednecks together in outlaw country.

Campus speech debates reveal a history of distorted narratives, balancing free speech, moral standards, and generational conflicts in U.S. universities.

Researchers measured lawmakers’ wealth and found that those whose Southern ancestors owned slaves before abolition have a higher net worth today.

Dr. Bronner blends spirituality, ethical consumerism, and social activism, aiming to support both community and environmental causes through “All-One” values.

The path to winning the Black vote no longer runs through the church door.

The spirit of socialism has coursed through the American Midwest ever since the movement emerged, continuing to animate the political landscape today.

"Between the Temples" tackles the anxieties around cultural assimilation—and finds continuity among very different generations.

Explore science fiction worlds from the last few decades – and what these fictional settings tell us about ourselves.

How the Wakasa stone, a memorial to a Japanese man murdered in a Utah internment camp, became the flash point of a bitter modern dispute.

Tracing the family history of some of today's most popular celebrities.

How we rediscovered the tragedy in Mississippi that ushered us into the Great Migration.

A century after three Tejano men were shot to death, the story their family tells is different than the official account. Whose story counts as Texas history?