family history

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• SOURCE: NPR
  2/14/20
  

  Who Owns History? Connecticut Woman Sues Harvard for Family Photos

  Featuring historian and professor from Georgetown University, Marcia Chatelain, about how American universities are confronting their legacies of slavery. 

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• 1/5/20
  

  A Civil War Heirloom, Ancestry.com, and the Importance of Tracing Our Family's Historical Roots

  by James Ottavio Castagnera

   Retracing of the tap root of what made each of us an American can be a profound reminder of why we must put our democratic republic ahead of transient sectarian differences and deal with tomorrow’s existential challenges as, collectively, the American constitutional democracy.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  9/20/19
  

  Enslaved Couples Faced Wrenching Separations, or Even Choosing Family Over Freedom

  by Tera W. Hunter

  Loved ones could be sold away at any time. Here's how married couples coped.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  8/21/19
  

  USA Today Announces Crowd-Sourcing Black History Project

  USA TODAY is asking readers to share what they know about their family history with our journalists in 2019.

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• SOURCE: Air & Space Magazine
  Accessed 4/2/19
  

  A family photo album illuminates a landmark in aviation history

  by Marc Wortman

  The First Airplane to Cross an Ocean

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/3/19
  

  Why You Should Dig Up Your Family’s History — and How to Do It

  by Jaya Saxena

  Learning your history is forced reckoning, asking you to consider whose stories you carry with you and which ones you want to carry forward. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  1/21/19
  

  Historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. On DNA Testing And Finding His Own Roots

  In an interview, Gates discusses how what he learned through his own DNA test.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/19/19
  

  My Mother’s Secrets

  by Helen Zia

  She thought she was protecting her children by not telling us her harrowing tale of fleeing China.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  2-4-14
  

  Gregory Clark: Family weath lasts 10 to 15 generations

  Clark is an historian of social mobility.

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• 1-7-14
  

  Divorce Recession Drop Rebound

  by Philip N. Cohen

  After bottoming out in the aftermath of the 2008 recession, divorces are on the uptick again.

• SOURCE: WSJ
  1-17-13
  

  “Grandma Did What?” Digging Up the Roots of Family Lore

  Researching one’s family tree has become a popular pastime, partly because parents want to pass on family stories to their kids, to give them a deeper sense of identity and history.Many old family legends, however, are at least partly false.Megan Smolenyak, a genealogist and author of “Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing,” says the stories passed down by families are often rooted in one of several common misperceptions. She summarizes them this way:“Three brothers came to America; one went north, one went south and one went west.” Many people assume they have family ties to large numbers of widely dispersed people with the same surname, but DNA testing and other genealogical tools often disprove it....