Dunham, who was born Stanley Ann Dunham in Kansas in 1942, died of ovarian cancer in Hawaii just before her 53rd birthday in 1995, according to the Stanley Ann Dunham Scholarship Fund website.

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 ...

Obama's mom was born as Stanley Ann Dunham on November 29, 1942, in Wichita, Kansas. Per her biography, "A Singular Woman," her masculine name is said to have been chosen by her f ...

My mother, Ann Dunham, was the biggest influence on my life, and helped shape me into the person I am today. I’m proud to share that the Water Garden at the Obama Presidential Center will be ...

1 of 2 | Stanley Ann Dunham, Barack Obama’s mother, in the 1959 Mercer Island High School yearbook. She died of ovarian cancer in 1995.

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. -- Carolyn Kellogg ...

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.

At 17, Dunham came into her own when she arrived at the University of Hawaii. She married a student from Kenya, gave birth to Barack, divorced. Four years later, she married Lolo Soetoro, an ...

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.

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, Barack Obama’s mother, wasn’t just a white woman from Kansas who fell in love with a Kenyan student, nor just an anthropologist who became an American president’s mother.

By this, I don’t mean Stanley Ann Dunham was inconsequential, in the sense that none of us are inconsequential, that we are all living, breathing miracles of sentience, for whom, as Whitman ...