Articles

Date	Title and Publication
June 2023	What Made Edna Lewis the Mother of Soul Food Smithsonian Magazine
Jan 10, 2022	More than 1,700 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation. The Washington Post
Jun 22, 2021	Montpelier shares power with enslaved people's descendants Culpeper Star-Exponent
Jun 17, 2021	Hidden Black Scientists Proved the Polio Vaccine Worked Scientific American
May 7, 2021	Meet Benjamin Banneker, the Black Scientist Who Documented Brood X Cicadas in the Late 1700s Smithsonian Magazine
Jun 19, 2020	Northam announces new state highway historical markers highlighting African American history WWBT - Richmond
Jan, 2020	A Massive New Database Will Connect Billions of Historic Records to Tell the Full Story of American Slavery Smithsonian Magazine
Dec 27, 2019	‘The Slaves Dread New Year's Day the Worst’: The Grim History of January 1 Time Magazine
Jul 23, 2019	Cousin Chart—Cousin Relationships Explained FamilySearch Blog
Jul 18, 2019	University of Virginia begins project to identify, contact descendants of slaves The Daily Progress
Jul 2, 2019	The Diaries Left Behind by Confederate Soldiers Reveal the True Role of Enslaved Labor at Gettysburg Smithsonian Magazine
May 4, 2019	Descendants of early contraband slaves gather for tribute to ancestors at Fort Monroe Dailypress.com
May 2, 2019	A New Civil War Museum Speaks Truths in the Former Capital of the Confederacy Smithsonian Magazine
Feb 1, 2019	How the founder of Black History Month rebutted white racism in a forgotten manuscript The Washington Post
Jan 31, 2019	One Of The Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working With The FBI BuzzFeed News
Jan 19, 2019	Williams: Virginia has a dark history of lynching. Efforts are underway to bring it to light. Richmond Times-Dispatch
Dec 18, 2018	10 Essential Genealogy Books Family Tree Magazine
Oct 19, 2018	Plaque honoring local desegregation hero Dr. Calvin C. Green unveiled at New Kent High The Virginia Gazette
Jun 6, 2018	Ira Berlin, transformative historian of slavery in America, dies at 77 The Washington Post
Apr 27, 2018	The ingenious and ‘dystopian’ DNA technique police used to hunt the ‘Golden State Killer’ suspect The Washington Post
Apr 25, 2018	A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It. The New York Times
Feb 26, 2018	When Emancipation Finally Came, Slave Markets Took on a Redemptive Purpose Smithsonian Magazine
Feb 6, 2018	They considered themselves white, but DNA tests told a more complex story The Washington Post
Aug 28, 2017	The Best DNA Ancestry Testing Kit The Wirecutter
Aug 28, 2017	With a Simple DNA Test, Family Histories Are Rewritten The New York Times
Aug 26, 2017	August 2017 Update to the Shared cM Project The Genetic Genealogist
Aug 24, 2017	Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson and the Ways We Talk About Our Past The New York Times
Aug 15, 2017	When Jack Daniel's Failed to Honor a Slave, an Author Rewrote History The New York Times
Aug 5, 2017	With the help of genealogical research, woman brings together distant relatives for reunion in Tappahannock Richmond Times-Dispatch
Jul 16, 2017	She didn't just charter a bank. With new statue, Richmond hopes to illuminate depth of Maggie Walker's contributions Richmond Times-Dispatch
Jul 3, 2017	Celebrate the America we are trying to be Chicago Tribune
Jun 30, 2017	Confederate monuments and the Fourth of July Chicago Tribune
Jun 30, 2017	The East St. Louis Race Riot Left Dozens Dead, Devastating a Community on the Rise Smithsonian Magazine
Jun 13, 2017	The Thrilling Tale of How Robert Smalls Seized a Confederate Ship and Sailed it to Freedom Smithsonian Magazine
Jun 4, 2017	The Myth of the Kindly General Lee The Atlantic
May 1, 2017	A Digital Archive of Slave Voyages Details the Largest Forced Migration in History Smithsonian Magazine
Apr 14, 2017	Woman Returns To Her Slave Cabin Childhood Home In The Smithsonian National Public Radio
Mar 12, 2017	A Glimpse Into the Life of a Slave Sold to Save Georgetown The New York Times
Feb 26, 2017	Darden of ‘Hidden Figures’ tells her story in Richmond, encourages students Richmond Times-Dispatch
Feb 19, 2017	Families torn apart by slavery sought lost loved ones in newly archived ads philly.com
Feb 13, 2017	New Exhibit Shares Largest Collection of Digitized NC African American Newspapers DigitalNC
Feb 4, 2017	The History the Slaveholders Wanted Us to Forget The New York Times
Feb 6, 2017	In Search of the Slave Who Defied George Washington The New York Times
Dec 29, 2016	The True Story of "Hidden Figures", the Forgotten Women Who Helped Win the Space Race Smithsonian Magazine
Dec 17, 2016	Insurance Policies on Slaves: New York Life's Complicated Past The New York Times
Nov 21, 2016	A Smithsonian Scholar Revisits the Neglected History of the Chesapeake Bay’s Native Tribes Smithsonian Magazine
Nov 8, 2016	The Troubling Reason the Electoral College Exists Time Magazine
Sep 2, 2016	My Family’s Story in Georgetown’s Slave Past The New York Times
May 27, 2016	A Long-Lost Manuscript Contains a Searing Eyewitness Account of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 Smithsonian Magazine
May 27, 2016	Tales of African-American History Found in DNA The New York Times
May 20, 2016	‘A Million Questions’ From Descendants of Slaves Sold to Aid Georgetown The New York Times
Apr 20, 2016	Harriet Tubman is the next face of the $20 bill; $5 and $10 bills will also change Los Angeles Times
Apr 20, 2016	A Roxbury woman discovers her revolutionary history The Boston Globe
Apr 16, 2016	272 Slaves Were Sold to Save Georgetown. What Does It Owe Their Descendants? The New York Times
Apr 4, 2016	Inside America’s Auschwitz Smithsonian Magazine
Jan 29, 2016	Black German woman learns a shocking family secret: Her grandfather was a Nazi CNN
Jan 27, 2016	Discovery of Burial Ground Backs a Less Conventional Version of Harlem's History The New York Times
Jan 26, 2016	It's Time We Tell the Whole Story Richmond Magazine
Jan 21, 2016	Evidence of Burial Ground Is Discovered in East Harlem The New York Times
Dec 3, 2015	10 Easy Steps to Organizing Family Photos (part 2) Legacy News Family Tree
Nov 26, 2015	10 Easy Steps to Organizing Family Photos (part 1) Legacy News Family Tree
Nov 19, 2015	Stop ‘Saving’ Records to Your Ancestry Tree Until You Read This Family History Daily
Nov 2015	Retracing Slavery’s Trail of Tears Smithsonian Magazine
Oct 28, 2015	Edna Lewis and the Black Roots of American Cooking The New York Times Magazine
Oct 21, 2015	Historic Records Center in Fairfax Now Has Index of Slaves in County The Washington Post
Oct 18, 2015	Archiving project aims to preserve ‘historical treasure’ at Central State Richmond Times-Dispatch
Oct 9, 2015	Personality: Bessida C. White - Spotlight on Virginia chair of Genealogical Society's conference Richmond Free Press
Sep 11, 2015	Move from Detroit to Virginia Uncovers Family Roots Richmond Times-Dispatch
Aug 23, 2015	Rhode Island Church Taking Unusual Step to Illuminate Its Slavery Role The New York Times
Aug 13, 2015	The U.S. has 35,000 museums. Why is only one about slavery? The Washington Post
Jul 26, 2015	Ten Books on Slavery You Need to Read The Washington Post
May 31, 2015	Grim History Traced in Sunken Slave Ship Found Off South Africa The New York Times
May 8, 2015	A Cheat Sheet for Researching African-American Ancestors The Root
Apr 23, 2015	Black Funeral Programs Hold Trove of Genealogical Treasure Gloucester-Mathews Gazette-Journal
Apr 3, 2015	How the Slave Trade Built America The New York Times
Feb 26, 2015	Building the First Slavery Museum in America The New York Times Magazine
Feb 15, 2015	Middle Peninsula group helps black families find out more about their history The Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg.com)
Jan 17, 2015	History at Home: A Guide to Genealogy HomeAdvisor
Oct 25, 2014	The "Happy" genealogy of Pharrell Williams The Virginian-Pilot (HamptonRhodes.com)
Sep 30, 2014	Actor Daniele Watts Discovers her Roots in the Free State of Jones Renegade South
Jul 28, 2014	A North Carolina Community in Crisis, 1868-1869 Renegade South
May 23, 2014	How Can I Get the Most Out of Online Genealogy Sites? The Root
Jan 31, 2014	2 Families: 1 Black, 1 White. Have I Found the Link? The Root
Nov 27, 2013	Advice on How to Research Family History, Part 4 The New York Times
Nov 20, 2013	Advice on How to Research Family History, Part 3 The New York Times
Nov 13, 2013	Advice on How to Research Family History, Part 2 The New York Times
Nov 6, 2013	Advice on How to Research Family History, Part 1 The New York Times
Aug 1, 2013	"Free Negroes" and "Mulattoes" of Gloucester County and the Tidewater Area of Virginia Prior to 1800 Renegade South
Jun 29, 2013	A Complicated Family History Places Black MD Woman in DAR's Ranks The Washington Post
Jun 21, 2013	Breaking Medicine’s Color Barrier The New York Times
May 20, 2013	New Research Tools Kick Up Dust in Archives The New York Times
April 27, 2013	The World within Vanessa Williams Los Angeles Times
Feb 1, 2013	How to Trace Your Roots (Tracing Your Roots: We kick off our genealogy column with tips for finding Native American ancestry) The Root
Jan 21, 2013	Henrico Student Shares Family History on Special Day Richmond Times-Dispatch
Jan 14, 2013	Nathan Crowell on Racial Identity: Gloucester County, Virginia, revisited Renegade South
Jul 3, 2012	For Daughters of the American Revolution, a New Chapter The New York Times
Jun 21, 2012	A Black Spy in the Confederate White House The New York Times
Apr 5, 2012	‘Face to Face With the Rebels’ The New York Times
Mar 19, 2012	Family Tree’s Startling Roots The New York Times
Mar 2012	Library of Virginia Acquires Volume Dealing with Slave Accounts from Middlesex County Library of Virginia e-newsletter
Feb 10, 2012	Been Workin’ on the Railroad The New York Times
Jan 6, 2012	Research Black Family History State by State The Root
Dec 31, 2011	State adds 13 historical highway markers Richmond Times-Dispatch
Dec 13, 2011	Not Your Grandfather’s Civil War Commemoration The Atlantic
Dec 1, 2011	Not Your Grandmother’s Genealogy Hobby The Wall Street Journal
Nov 10, 2011	"Free People of Color" in Old Virginia: The Morris Family of Gloucester County, a Case Study Renegade South
Sep 8, 2011	A Database of Names to Trace Slave Ancestry The New York Times
May 29, 2011	Forgetting Why We Remember The New York Times
Apr 1, 2011	How Slavery Really Ended in America The New York Times
Feb 18, 2011	Tracing your family roots has become a popular pastime Dailypress.com
Jan 21, 2011	Teaching Civil War History 2.0 The New York Times
Mar 10, 2010	Living History Comes to Essex County Rappahannock Times Civil War Portrayal Southside Sentinel
Jan 9, 2008	African-American Genealogy Group Meets Here Rappahannock Times
May 16, 2007	School Building Cites Essex Native Rappahannock Times
Nov 15, 2006	Maryland Family Researches In Essex Rappahannock Times
Mar 22, 2006	Steps To Safeguard Your Family Recipes The Washington Post
Dec 8, 2005	Moore Marker Dedication Rappahannock Times
Nov 17, 2005	Moore Day Declared Rappahannock Times
Nov 17, 2005	Tracing Family Lines-Genealogical Research Daily Press