Family

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

Meditations on when you think you found the people who owned your people via DNA test.

Since we have new presidential pets, Champ and Major, we take a quick look back at one of the nation’s most famous four-legged White House inhabitants.

A genealogist takes a closer look at Joe Biden's family history.

David O. Stewart discusses the relationship between William Costin and the Washington bloodline.

The daughter and granddaughter of a former internee return to the notorious WWI-era detention site for Japanese-Americans.

Many of us are unaware of the special circumstances that eased our entry into American life—and of the bonds we share with other nonwhite groups.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers on how her mother overcame voter suppression and became an activist in her community.

At 91, Harrison Ruffin Tyler demonstrates that "long ago" wasn't so long ago.

Gustavus Stadler on Nora Belle Guthrie's battle with Huntington's Disease.

The intersecting lives of robber barons and floundering French aristocrats.

White women were as married to the war as their Confederate menfolk.

A review of "Descent" – a family story that blends the real world and the imagination.

Born 14 years after the nation's founding, the tenth commander-in-chief still has one living grandson.

Who should be allowed to profit from depictions of traumatic events in Black history?

The heart-tug tactics of 1950s ads steered white American women away from activism into domesticity. They’re still there.

He prized self-control above all, but did not always achieve it.

Because the 19th-century college president appeared white, he was able to climb the ladder of the Jesuit community.

Reflections on the famous economist through the prism of the author's own mixed-race family.

More than a century later, they’re still paying the price.

Jill Filipovic on the generation that changed everything.

Who tells our stories has always mattered.

The unusual union of a renowned artist and the discoverer of the Polio vaccine.

The child of someone once considered a piece of property instead of a human being, Daniel Smith is a flesh-and-blood reminder that slavery wasn't that long ago

Photographer Drew Gardner painstakingly recreates the images with the notable figures' descendants.

Sometimes I learned more Black history in a week at home than I did in a lifetime of Februarys at school.

Trump’s family separation policy belongs to a much longer history of U.S. government forces taking children from families that don't match the American ideal.

How a Texan holiday became a national tradition.

PepsiCo’s move to end the racist brand comes shamefully late.

On dying and heaven in the time of Longfellow.