At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...

Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...

Sneak peek at upcoming San Diego community events street fairs, festivals, concerts, performances, art shows, community ...

“A lot of people believe there is a discordance between what we eat today and what our ancestors evolved to eat ... They live on what they find: game, honey, and plants, including tubers ...

While many of us may think of family history research as a fairly recent hobby, it actually dates back to 18th century and the American Revolution when folks wanted to honor the signers of the ...

Doris Eckel, a researcher at the Venango County Historical Society, was surprised and delighted to see so much of the ...

The U.S. has a long record of writing racial exclusion into policy, with consequences that last for generations.

Learn about the power of genealogy in this week’s episode of “Real Possibilities” with AARP Michigan. (Sponsored) ...

Over 5,300 years ago, ancient herders known as the Yamna people emerged from the steppes of what is now Ukraine, going on to ...

Junie' author Erin Crosby Eckstine wrote her new book to preserve her family's stories. Here's how it came to life during the ...

The domestication of maize is one of the greatest examples of humankind's impact on evolution. Early farmers' pre-industrial plant breeding choices turned corn from a nearly inedible crop into the ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.