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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
10/18/2021
Among Other COVID Changes? The Role of Grandparents
by Sarah Stoller
"Just as they were in the 19th century, grandparents are now commonly expected to help, despite their own need for various kinds of support and assistance."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
9/28/2021
The Golden Age of "Traditional Marriage" Never Was
by Lauren Gutterman
Despite conservative mythologizing, married Americans in the postwar era frequently sought and secured space to explore same-sex attractions and relationships. These histories show that regardless of who controls the Supreme Court, conservatives will be unable to force a narrow model of family life on the public.
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SOURCE: NBC News
9/17/2021
New Digital Access to Freedmen's Bureau Records Boon to Black Genealogists
Ancestry.com has made 3.5 million records of the Freedmen's Bureau available to researchers, making family history and genealogy research much more accessible to African Americans and scholars of Black history.
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SOURCE: The Nation
8/23/2021
Web of Connections: Emma Rothschild's Microhistories of France
by David A. Bell
Historian David Bell reviews an effort to relate three centuries of French history through the lives of the descendants of one undistinguished eighteenth century Frenchwoman.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
8/11/2021
The Persistent Joy of Black Women
by Leah Wright-Rigueur
For Black women, claiming joy in motherhood is a rebellion against the historical subjection of "Black mothers’ private lives... to public surveillance, scrutiny, and judgment."
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SOURCE: New York Times
6/5/2021
A Supreme Court Case Poses a Threat to L.G.B.T.Q. Foster Kids
by Stephen Vider and David S. Byers
State and local social service agencies for decades have been actively working to protect the safety and dignity of queer youth in the foster care system. A Supreme Court case threatens that progress in the name of "religious freedom."
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
2/28/2021
The Untold Story of Queer Foster Families
by Michael Waters
Before the legal recognition of same-sex adoptive parents, social workers around the country made decisions to place gay and lesbian teens with gay and lesbian foster parents as a humane and protective act.
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
8/6/2020
Richard Nixon Bears Responsibility for the Pandemic’s Child-Care Crisis
by Anna K. Danziger Halperin
Today’s child-care crisis may have been fueled by the outbreak, but it is not new. It has been simmering below the surface for decades and can be traced back to President Richard M. Nixon’s 1971 veto of federally funded universal child care.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
5/29/2020
Women’s Household Labor Is Essential. Why Isn’t It Valued?
by Alexandra Finley
Covid-19 has exposed enduring inequality in domestic divisions of labor.
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SOURCE: BBC
5/10/2020
Anna Jarvis: The Woman Who Regretted Creating Mother's Day
The woman responsible for the creation of Mother's Day would have approved of the modest celebrations likely to take place this year. The commercialisation of the day horrified her - to the extent that she even campaigned to have it rescinded.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
5/2/2020
The Discovery of Germs Changed American Life, Especially Parenting. Will COVID-19 do the Same?
More than a hundred years ago, germ theory — the discovery that microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses caused disease — had a profound impact on almost every aspect of human behavior, just as the novel coronavirus could do after the current pandemic ends.
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SOURCE: NPR
2/14/20
Who Owns History? Connecticut Woman Sues Harvard for Family Photos
Featuring historian and professor from Georgetown University, Marcia Chatelain, about how American universities are confronting their legacies of slavery.
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1/5/20
A Civil War Heirloom, Ancestry.com, and the Importance of Tracing Our Family's Historical Roots
by James Ottavio Castagnera
Retracing of the tap root of what made each of us an American can be a profound reminder of why we must put our democratic republic ahead of transient sectarian differences and deal with tomorrow’s existential challenges as, collectively, the American constitutional democracy.
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SOURCE: History.com
9/20/19
Enslaved Couples Faced Wrenching Separations, or Even Choosing Family Over Freedom
by Tera W. Hunter
Loved ones could be sold away at any time. Here's how married couples coped.
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SOURCE: USA Today
8/21/19
USA Today Announces Crowd-Sourcing Black History Project
USA TODAY is asking readers to share what they know about their family history with our journalists in 2019.
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SOURCE: Air & Space Magazine
Accessed 4/2/19
A family photo album illuminates a landmark in aviation history
by Marc Wortman
The First Airplane to Cross an Ocean
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SOURCE: NY Times
2/3/19
Why You Should Dig Up Your Family’s History — and How to Do It
by Jaya Saxena
Learning your history is forced reckoning, asking you to consider whose stories you carry with you and which ones you want to carry forward.
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SOURCE: NPR
1/21/19
Historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. On DNA Testing And Finding His Own Roots
In an interview, Gates discusses how what he learned through his own DNA test.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/19/19
My Mother’s Secrets
by Helen Zia
She thought she was protecting her children by not telling us her harrowing tale of fleeing China.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
2-4-14
Gregory Clark: Family weath lasts 10 to 15 generations
Clark is an historian of social mobility.
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