Family

In a white supremacist society, where Black people are still fighting for freedom, the Black family offers protection and, at times, a space for resistance.

In 1950, the Sullivinian Institute was created to push the boundaries of psychoanalysis. By 1980, its therapists and patients had become a small paramilitary.

What eight decades of "Goofus and Gallant" illustrate about society’s changing expectations of children.

Among America's political elite, 5 living presidents, 2 Supreme Court justices, 11 governors, and 100 legislators have ancestors who enslaved Black people.

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

In the sixties and seventies, the Sullivanian Institute had a winning sales pitch for young New Yorkers: parties, sex, low rent, and affordable therapy.

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

Over the course of her 83 years, the megawatt star that was Tina Turner kept telling us who she was in the hopes that we would see her — all of her.

Likely the child of Martha's son from her first marriage, William Costin used his position to advocate for D.C.'s free Black community.

The National Genealogical Society is one of the oldest, largest groups dedicated to helping families trace their ancestries.

Questions are swirling in New Hampshire around attempts by two local groups to gain tribal recognition.

On the complex history of “passing” in America.

As a student in Paris and a photographer at the Washington Times-Herald, the future First Lady worked behind the lens to bring her own ideas into focus.

During the Civil War, women secretly enlisted as men in the Union Army. No one suspected a thing...until they gave birth.

The idea that non-white immigrants are, generally speaking, new to the Midwest could not be further from the truth.

In the sixties and seventies, fighting for the rights of queer people was considered radical activism. To Jeanne Manford, it was just part of being a parent.

A mass murderer of 1955.

The symbolic battles of World War I.

The ‘methods and collections’ of genealogists are political because they have a great deal in common with genealogy as a way of doing history.

The sacrifice of Captain Noah Grant, during the French and Indian War, may have influenced Ulysses S. Grant, as he decided to rejoin the U.S. Army in 1861.

The second wife of Thomas Edison, she viewed domestic labor as a science, calling herself a "home executive."

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

Netflix’s “The Pale Blue Eye” portrays Edgar Allan Poe as a young West Point cadet. Here’s the true story of his brief, failed military career.

One war, in one city, Philadelphia, and the fate of the men, women, and children left behind as collateral damage in the wake of conflict.

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

In Virginia, the land still owned by the Coles family could yield billions in uranium. Does any of that wealth belong to the descendants of the enslaved?

Many of the ­private colleges and universities in the US arose as much out of vanity as necessity. But for morbid narcissism, nothing comes close to Stanford.

What the story of the Grimke family tells us about race in the United States.

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

Meet the duo who helped achieve the most important labor and civil rights victories of their age.