Family

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.

Patti Davis has spent a lifetime chronicling her life with parents Ronald and Nancy Reagan. In a new book, 'Dear Mom and Dad,' she reckons with them as people.

I lived on Indian Creek with my grandparents after my mother suffered a nervous breakdown.

Knowing I come from people who lived hard lives and endured terrible things is difficult. Knowing that I come from someone who ruined lives haunts me.

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

A bold new photographic project asks modern-day Americans to recreate portraits of their 19th-century ancestors in painstakingly accurate fashion.

The Union general directly benefited from the brutal institution before and during the Civil War.

Women’s work is often hidden or marginal within historical records that were meant to show men’s economic and political lives.

The university’s Peabody Museum exploited loopholes to prevent repatriation to the Wabanaki people while still staying in compliance with NAGPRA.

Lacking a sufficient support system, Meriwether Lewis did not have anyone close enough to help him.

A photographer excavates personal history through reconstruction of Adams's World War II photographs of Japanese Americans.

“I’d assumed this practice was a manifestation of military decorum.”

In the history of sexual dissent, the relationship between politics and sexual freedom defies simplistic categorization.

No one should fear a history that asks a country to live up to its highest ideals.

Former Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust’s extraordinary memoir recalls painful memories for her--and me.

A novel illuminates a moment of psychedelic history that has often been overlooked: the emergence of LSD psychotherapy just before the moral panic took hold.

The murders of her Osage relatives for their oil wealth still reverberate in the life of Margie Burkhart, granddaughter of a central character in the new movie.

How family political dynasties in America came to be.

There's no clear system in place to repatriate remains of captive Africans or objects associated with them.

On upending the accepted narrative of the movement.

Paid less than their white counterparts, Black men in the United States Colored Troops fought for the Union and the future of their families.

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.

An exploration of the family stories, Southern territory, and distortions of memory that Lucinda Williams' songwriting evokes.

When journalist Dorothy Tucker first learned about the 10 Million Names genealogical project, it helped amplify memories of long car journeys to “Down South."

Two family histories by Americans connected to Europe’s twentieth century through their fascist grandfathers seek to occupy the void between history and memory.

The secret history of a psychoanalytic cult.

Huey P. Newton has been mythologized and maligned since his murder 34 years ago. His family and friends offer an intimate look inside his life and mind.