At the top of the family trees drawn in elementary school classrooms are generations of question marks. Genealogy, the study of family history and lineage, fills in those blanks. The Archives of ...

Nina Jablonski was at the helm of researching skin color evolution in the 1990s. Since then, she's worked with other scholars such as Henry Louis Gates Jr. to give young students a chance to ...

Dr. Fields-Black is the author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War.” In many ways, the overgrown cemetery on a South Carolina rice plantation ...

Imagine popping your head into the attic of your childhood home and finding a box overflowing with recordings, photos, documents, and diaries compiled by relatives who have long passed.

At a Department of History Event on Tuesday, Director of the John Carter Brown Library and Professor of History Karin Wulf celebrated the launch of her book “Lineage: Genealogy and the Politics of ...