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A

A Family's Civil War: Benjamin and William Franklin and the American Revolution

Abigail and John Adams: Portrait of a Marriage

American Women and Marriage in the Twentieth Century

C

Coming Home: Modern Midwifery and the Controversy over Home Birth

E

Embarrassing Facts: Illegitimacy and Birth Records in the United States

F

Families and Photographs: Seeing (un)like a State

Family Quarrels and the History of Federalism

Farm Family, Family Crisis, Family Values: Defining Family in the Twentieth-Century South

G

Gender, Marriage, and Work in Japan

Grandmothering in Antebellum Slave Families and Communities

H

History, Memoir, Maternity

Houses, Cars, and Children: The Birth, Life, and Death of Postwar American Consumption

I

"I Wanted the Whole World to See": Mamie Till Mobley, Mourning Mothers, and Black Freedom Struggles

Is Marriage a Civil Right?

K

Kitchen Table History: A Family Memoir

L

Love and Blood, Marriage and Duty: Intimate Histories of Mixed-Blood North America

Love, Honor, and the Power of Law: The Transformation of Families and Land in Frontier California

M

Margaret McCoy's Divorce: Race and Nation-Making in an American Borderland

Market Values and Family Values: A Historical Romance

Marriage (In)Equality

Marriage Free Zones in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Marriage through the Mail: Correspondence Marriage across Borders

Marriage, Family, and Eugenics in the Twentieth Century

Marriage, Sex, and American History

Millionaires Marrying Working Women

Mother Is A Verb: Unconventional Histories of the American Past

N

Negotiating the Invisible Lines of Race: A History of American Families

P

Pelagie Farribault's Island: Marriage and the American State in Early Nineteenth-Century Dakota Country

Polygamy Puzzles: A New Slant on Nineteenth-Century Family History

Public Emblem, Private Realm: Marital Supremacy in U.S. History

R

Reassessing Respectability: Beauty, Fashion, and Gold-Digging in U.S. Offices and Courts at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Rose Herera's Civil War

T

The Changing Landscape of Love, Sex, Singlehood, and Marriage

The Cold War Mystique: American Families in Myth and History

The Dynamics of Modern Marriage in the United States and Beyond

The Four-Child Norm: The Eugenic Construction of the American Family

The Impact of Antebellum Slave Migrations on Family and Community Life

The Long View: Birth Control and Reproduction in America since the Seventeenth Century

The Red and the White: The Saga of a Mixed-Race Family in Montana, 1850–1950

Trapped: A New History of Race and the Fur Trade

U

Unfamiliar Territory: The Worldwide Transformation of Marriage and Family Life

W

Where Do I Come From? Family History in the Classroom