-
New on The Root: Bobo, Lomax, OthersMarch 11, 2013
Politics, education and society are just a few of the hot topics our new regulars touch upon.
Read() Comments -
Find Where Your Slave Ancestors Are Buriedby Hillary Crosley onMarch 9, 2013
Fordham's user-generated website seeks to create a national cemetery database to reconnect the past.
Read() Comments -
How Do I Track Down a Slave Plantation?by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onMarch 8, 2013
Tracing Your Roots: For many Americans, the hunt for family roots leads to a place of forced labor.
Read() Comments -
I'm Black and I Think I Have Presidential Rootsby Henry Louis Gates Jr. onMarch 1, 2013
Tracing Your Roots: A blues singer thinks he is descended from Lincoln's mom; his daughter seeks advice.
Read() Comments -
How Do I Trace My Former-Slave Ancestor?by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onFebruary 22, 2013
Tracing Your Roots: Search the records of the Freedmen's Bureau kept by the National Archives.
Read() Comments -
How Do I Decode Slave Records?by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onFebruary 13, 2013
Tracing Your Roots: What to look for in antebellum documents in your family tree search.
Read() Comments -
How Do I Find Famous Haitian Ancestor?by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onFebruary 8, 2013
Tracing Your Roots: Help is needed to find the family link to a 19th-century head of state.
Read() Comments -
Will Census Fiasco Stop My Ancestor Search?by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onFebruary 6, 2013
Tracing Your Roots: A reader's hunt for 19th-century records halts with the fire-damaged 1890 poll.
Read() Comments -
How to Trace Your Rootsby Henry Louis Gates Jr. onFebruary 1, 2013
Tracing Your Roots: We kick off our genealogy column with tips for finding Native American ancestry.
Read() Comments -
Jackie Joyner-Kersee: Great-Grandma's PainJuly 20, 2011
In an episode of African American Lives 2 that aired in 2008, the Olympic gold medalist talked about the hurt and pain the older women in her family carried with them.
Read() Comments
- 1
- 2
- next ›
- last »
