On June 21, a Louisville nonprofit will show people how to navigate the digitized records of the Catholic Church in Kentucky, ...

To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, a group with personal ties to the historic event converged on Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood Tuesday. Descendants of those who ...

For descendants of people who were enslaved by tribal nations, Juneteenth is both a celebration of freedom for people of ...

Tuesday marks the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, a key catalyst for the American Revolution. Although the British fought off the Patriots during the battle in Charlestown, this event ...

Several of Charles and Nell’s descendants later went to court to ... Brooks trekked to the cemetery in search of his ancestor's headstone. My eldest cousin had been on Ancestry.com for a while ...

A group of humans that settled in Colombia 6,000 years ago vanished without a trace 4,000 years later. Scientists have not found any of their ancestors with their DNA, nor are there any descendants.

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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Tamara Lanier who, following a six-year legal battle with Harvard University, won the ownership to images of her enslaved descendants. Harvard University, this week ...

Harvard University, this week, agreed to give up ownership of two portraits believed to be the earliest photographs of enslaved Black people in the United States. The Harvard biologist ...