siblings

Examining the tumultuous bond between the two brothers.

Eighty years ago this month, the Kennedy who might have been president was killed on a secret mission over England.

A rift in thinking about who should control powerful new technologies sent the brothers on diverging paths.

Meet the feuding twin sisters who popularized the American advice column.

The Cromwell twins fled the constrictions of high society for the freedoms of the literary world. Ravenous for greater purpose, the twins then went to war.

Family dynasties are neither new nor newly influential in pop.

How could two renowned, high-ranking men of the American Revolution have fallen into such dire straits that they feared the loss of all they worked for?

The supposed recluse constantly sent letters to friends, family, and lovers. What do they show us?

Her brother’s disease leads a writer to challenge how we conceive of human abnormality in the emerging era of gene editing.

The far-flung tale of a murder song.

Though his younger brother Isaac Bashevis Singer eventually eclipsed him, Israel Joshua Singer excelled at showing characters buffeted by the tides of history.

On Audrey Clare Farley’s “Girls and Their Monsters.”

The role of family in Huey P. Newton's educational journey.

The author of a book about William Still unearths new details about the leading Black abolitionist—and reflects on his lost legacy.

J. Edgar Hoover had both of them in his sights. Yet neither one was ever arrested. The untold story of how the Hall brothers beat the FBI.

The Rosenbergs were executed for being Soviet spies, but their sons have spent decades trying to clear their mother’s name. Are they close to a breakthrough?

Who made sure Henry David Thoreau's works came out after his death? His sister.

Early in the Cuban Revolution, my mother made a consequential decision.

The story of Kate and Margaret Fox, the small-town girls who triggered the 19th century movement known as Spiritualism.

The secrets and service of a World War II family, 76 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

How “Vaudeville’s worst act” fought for fame and respect on the stage.

Narrated photo journal of time spent with a family to discuss poverty and race.

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.

The con artist was either a very unlucky man or a trickster who got away with it all.

Kamala Harris is the heir to a political lineage that dates back to a chain-smoking, hard-drinking mastermind elected to Congress from San Francisco in 1964.

What the tech pioneer can, and can’t, teach us.

At 12 years old, Martha Hodes was on board a hijacked plane and was taken hostage for a week. How did she forget much of the experience?

In 1838, leaders of the Catholic order faced opposition from their own priests, but pressed forward with the sale of 272 human beings anyway.

The woman with the pen name Onoto Watanna had a stunningly productive literary career as a cookbook writer, novelist, and screenwriter.

A new biography of William Still show how the abolitionist documented the underground railroad as he helped people through it.