We already know pieces of the story of Ann Dunham, the mother of Barack Obama: a “white woman from Kansas,” as he referred to her at the Democratic convention in 2008, who married an African ...

As Ann Dunham’s studies and work took her around the Pacific Rim, Barack eventually went to live with his grandparents in Hawaii to finish school. Dunham died in 1995 of cancer.

Barack Obama's relationship with his father was distant and difficult, but his paternal side had a profound effect on the ...

"She was admirably, movingly, sometimes exasperatingly, human,"Janny Scott writes of Ann Dunham. "Her life was not simple, which may help explain why it has been misunderstood or misrepresented or ...

The story begins, as it does for every person in the world, with his mother. For Barack Obama, it's about a seemingly all-American girl from Kansas, Stanley Ann Dunham.

For four years on Mercer Island, Stanley Ann Dunham impressed her high-school classmates with a wickedly sharp wit. She was an “intellectual rebel” with a fledgling beatnik sensibility that ...

Stanley Ann Dunham is the overshadowed parent in histories of President Obama's childhood, ignored as a boring white lady from Kansas compared to Barack Obama Sr. of Kenya. The elder Obama ...

The name Stanley Ann Dunham doesn’t ring many bells. But her son is pretty well-known — he lives in that big white house on the 1600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue.

By S. Ann Dunham Hardcover, 368 pages Duke University Press List price: $27.95 A few years before her death, Barack Obama's mother completed her doctoral dissertation.

Ann Dunham was an avid collector of intricately patterned, hand-dyed textiles when she lived in Indonesia in the 1960s. Fabrics from her collection are currently on display at the Textile Museum ...

Stanley Ann Dunham is the overshadowed parent in histories of President Obama's childhood, ignored as a boring white lady from Kansas compared to Barack Obama Sr. of Kenya.