Anthropologist S. Ann Dunham (above, left) documented traditional crafts in Indonesia. Her field notes are now digitized and the Smithsonian is looking for digital transcribers.

Ann Dunham was barely out of her teens when her husband left her to raise their 2-year-old son on her own. Barack Obama's mother had him at 18, only to become a single parent when she was 20.

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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 ...

On Thursday, Barack Obama celebrated his 61st birthday by announcing that a new water garden installation at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago will be named after his late mother, Ann Dunham ...

Barack Obama's mother was secretly in contact with his estranged father during his entire childhood without the future president's knowledge, a new book claims. Ann Dunham gave Barack Obama Sr ...

US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) is seen as a child with his mother Ann Dunham in an undated family snapshot from the 1960's released by his presidential campaign ...

February 2, 1961 — Barack Obama Sr., 25, marries 18 year old Ann Dunham, a white American student he meets in a Russian-language class only a few months earlier.

Origins: One of the odder rumors that began popping into our inbox in June 2012 was the claim that Barack Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, was born a man and became a transvestite. There is nothing to ...

Barack Obama was the 44th President of the United States, serving from 2009 until 2017. The former president was born on Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu. His parents, Barack H. Obama Sr. and Stanley Ann ...