genealogy

After the Spanish conquest, horses transformed Native American tribes much earlier than historians thought.

Clashes between sovereignty rights and civil rights reveal an uncomfortable and complicated story about race and belonging in America.

Using records digitized in part by amateur genealogists, economists have upended conventional wisdom about which immigrants succeed and why.

"A lot has been hidden from Black Americans. And so there is always a longing to know who you are and where you come from.”

DNA tests have become popular tools to rediscover lost ties to the past, but the links they forge do not always stand up to historical scrutiny.

The president has skillfully played up his Irish roots, but the story of his ancestry is more complicated.

The newly recovered 1787 Hungerford Deed, detailing a contentious squabble over property and prestige, can now be viewed in a new virtual exhibition.

In a city of ambitious influencers, a shadow cabinet hopes it can summon a new New Deal.

Revisiting America's first witch hunt — and discovering how much of it was a family affair. My family, that is.

The ironies abound in the story of Reed, who made it possible to erect the statue that remains on the top of the Capitol dome today.

2020 was full of efforts to archive photos and artifacts of the pandemic — an impulse born of a sense of witnessing history, and a desire to speak to the future.

The vice president is best known for killing rival Alexander Hamilton in an 1804 duel. But he was also a notorious rake, historians say.

On Ancestry's dangerous move to make it harder to discern which white families owned slaves.

A review of "She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity."

Historians are using facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photographs.

A nonprofit claims its request for genealogical records from state archives was brushed aside in favor of Ancestry’s request.

The roots of the attacks on Elizabeth Warren.

A historian turned novelist ponders the absence of women from America's historical archives.

The effort to dig up information about the immigrant ancestors of prominent Trumpsters is doing more harm than good.

War, famine and persecution inflict profound changes on bodies and brains. Could these changes persist over generations?