Family

In Wilson’s chivalric framework, women were required to be submissive precisely so that men could protect the weaker sex.

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

Criticisms of women without biological children define motherhood too narrowly, as history reveals the many forms of motherhood.

A conversation with historian Zachary Schrag and his father Philip Schrag about their multi-generational encounters with nuclear threats.

This election year, two women of South Asian descent—Kamala Harris and Usha Vance—take center stage. What can their identities tell us about their approach?

A new book charts the history of pet cemeteries and honors the universal experience of grieving an animal companion.

The candidate's potential ties to an Irish slave owner invite us to reexamine Ireland’s multilayered historical identity.

How my great-grandfather invented himself at the end of Reconstruction.

While going out on a date may seem like a natural thing to do these days, it wasn't always the case.

The former president is suggesting that Harris became Black only when it was obvious that being Black conferred social advantage.

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

Ask George Washington.

In many ways, a world built for cars has made life so much harder for grown-ups.

Kushner was a top official in a Trump administration that sharply restricted immigration and refugee admissions. His grandparents were Holocaust refugees.

Anti-Asian immigration restrictions led male Punjabi farm workers in California to marry Mexican and Mexican American women, creating new cultural bonds.

The annual rite of passage has always been more about the ambivalence of adults than the amusement of children.

During Japanese-American incarceration, what happened to mixed-race families and individuals?

Camps once sold a story about social improvement. Now we just can’t conceive of an unscheduled moment.

Betty Ford and the public eye.

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

Paul Cuffe was the first Black American to formally meet with a sitting president at the White House.

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

What a little-known family reveals about the nation’s untamed spirit.

Amrita Myers paints freedom as a process in which Black women used the tools available to them to secure rights and privileges within a slave society.

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

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

Common in colonial New England, bundling allowed a suitor to spend a night in bed with his sweetheart—while her parents slept in the next room.

Remembering the river helps me forget, at least for a moment, the challenges, fears, and feelings of inadequacy I experienced in my childhood.

On the inseparable histories of matrimony and disunion in the United States.

The reflections of Emerson, Thoreau, and William James one finds a characteristically nineteenth-century American sense of resilience and regeneration.