Family

The president has skillfully played up his Irish roots, but the story of his ancestry is more complicated.

After decades of keeping her identity a secret, Jane Roe’s child has chosen to talk about her life.

The little-known story of Robert Carter III.

"My job as your mother is to tell you these stories differently, and to tell you other stories that don’t get told at school.”

DNA testing kits have shifted the way both researchers and the public think about race and identity. This shift is evident in the 2020 U.S. Census data.

The murderous hysteria over white patrimony is inseparable from the private capture of both economic opportunity and political authority.

The newly recovered 1787 Hungerford Deed, detailing a contentious squabble over property and prestige, can now be viewed in a new virtual exhibition.

Hollywood has long abused conservatorships. I spent the past decade studying one of the darkest cases.

Records tell the story of the decline of the patriarchy, marrying young, and pandemic fallout. Digitizing the data could reveal even richer tales.

The more sons a Founding Father had, the more supportive he was of a strong centralized government.

Revisiting America's first witch hunt — and discovering how much of it was a family affair. My family, that is.

After inheriting a box of documents from her grandfather, Marta Olmos learns more about her family's history.

He helped build Jewish American support for Israel. What’s his legacy now?

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?

How African American women represented Black motherhood in the early nineteenth century.

Our foremothers wove spiritual beliefs, cultural values, and historical knowledge into their flax, wool, silk, and cotton webs.

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

Grieving family members were instrumental in the creation of a federal program to rebury and repatriate the remains of fallen soldiers after World War II.

Martha Saxton dives into the life of the mother of George Washington and how historians have misrepresented her in the past.

A photo archive shows college coeds vacuuming, preparing baby bottles, diapering babies, and generally practicing at motherhood.

The Lincolns had four sons. Mary buried three of them. A new exhibit at President Lincoln's Cottage sheds light on bereaved parents, then and now.

Instead of caring for Black children, child welfare systems subject them to abuse and harsh conditions.

Having more than one wife was an established part of life for some Native peoples before Europeans tried to end the practice.

Trying to learn more about a woman named Ann led her descendants to confront a painful past; ‘I just wanted to know the truth.’

My ancestors were enslaved—but their freedom came at a price for others.

The decline of South Carolina's apple industry, interwoven with personal memories of family orchards.

Joe Biden is just the latest in a long line of US presidents to trace their ancestry back to the Emerald Isle.

In the 1970s, social workers in several states placed queer teenagers with queer foster parents, in discrete acts of quiet radicalism.

Since the 19th century, men have served as gatekeepers in the entertainment industry, controlling women’s careers.

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