generations

Anthem for a forgotten cohort.

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.