The only woman allowed in Sherman’s camps, Mary Ann Bickerdyke became known simply as "Mother Bickerdyke" to thousands of Union soldiers. She was famous for her ability to bypass bureaucracy ...

Ken Burns said, “My work as a filmmaker is directly linked to the death of my mother from cancer when I was 11. From the age of three, I watched her suffer and struggle with this awful disease ...

Sarah Botstein, co-director of the U.S. and the Holocaust with Ken Burns and Lynn Novick ... the first of which was with Daniel Mendelsohn’s mother, Marlene, who was in her nineties.