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 ...

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 ...

O ver the course of her nearly 53-year life, Barack Obama's mom, Ann Dunham, was known to the public by four different names.Though the name she went by may have varied over time, she was ...

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. But what it became was a ...

"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 ...

A few years before her death, Barack Obama's mother completed her doctoral dissertation. Nearly two decades later, S. Ann Dunham's fieldwork has been published — a fulfillment of her dream ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...