Family

A virtual tour of "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."

The oldest living member of the Mascogos still sings songs in a language she doesn't understand.

Regina Bradley searches for truths about her great-grandfather and his murder.

Many of America’s most notorious feuds have their roots in the Civil War.

I told her we were brought over the Rio Grande on a raft. I never called it a smuggling.

A childhood lesson in the backseat of a 1973 Mustang.

At some point, Jackie began to refer to himself not as “I” but as “we.”

Bridgett M. Davis tracks her mother's journey from Nashville to Detroit.

How can we be sure the atrocities of the past will stay in the past?

A new book shows the remarkable contrast between 19th-century women’s views of miscarriage and the loss-focused rhetoric of today.

Doctors who sterilized Carrie Buck said she was a “feeble-minded” woman whose future offspring posed a threat to society. Her life paints a different picture.

He came to this country a refugee, and paid his debt forward.

A historian assesses Donald Trump’s claim that the first president faced his own allegations of sexual assault.

During and after slavery, some whites considered legal marriage too sacred an institution to be offered to black Americans.

White traders couldn’t have loaded their ships without help from Africans like my great-grandfather.

In navigating lives of privation and brutality, enslaved people haggled, often daily, for liberties small and large.

My father was pro-Jewish propaganda when the country had an anti-semitism problem - he even met the man that inspired much of the hate. But is history repeating itself?

When the government executed Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the welfare of their two boys was a secondary concern.

President Trump's grandfather made the choice to leave his German family for the U.S. all the way back in 1885.

The war brought many couples together. It also drove many apart.

The language that has long been critical to covertly mobilizing activism.

"I think the key change for the invention of the modern father is in the 1920s," says historian Robert L. Griswold.

A historian turned novelist ponders the absence of women from America's historical archives.

For the frontier women of the 19th century, the experience of childbirth was harrowing, and even just expressing fear was considered a privilege.

Zora Neale Hurston’s long-lost oral history with one of the last survivors of the Atlantic slave trade.

Finding a puzzle from the past in a family member’s basement.

Even before mass media coverage of child abductions, American parents had reason to fear the worst if their child went missing.

An enslaved woman who jumped from a building in 1815 is later revealed to be the plaintiff in a successful lawsuit for her freedom.

In 1967, I was in the middle of one of the world’s buzziest stories.

In excavating the story of King’s visit to Harlem Hospital, I uncovered my grandfather’s own fight for civil rights.