Slavery and the Family Tree
How do you make a family tree when you may not know your family history? Beyond the very real physical
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Historical Memory
Beyond Romantic Advertisements: Ancestry.com, Genealogy, and White Supremacy
Ancestry.com has recently come under a lot of well-deserved criticism for whitewashing slavery with a new advertisement that portrays an
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Politics, Public History, and Memory: An Interview with Niya Bates
In today’s post, senior editor J. T. Roane interviews Niya Bates, a native of Charlottesville, Virginia and a two-time graduate of the
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Reclaiming the Black Past: A New Book on the Use and Misuse of African American History
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Reflections on Sandra Bland on the 3rd Anniversary of Her Death
This post is part of our online forum in honor of Sandra Bland, coinciding with the third anniversary of her death. The forum includes historical
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