Originally published: Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books, 2000.

History lays the foundation to understand a group of people. Genealogy lays the foundation to understand a person or family using tangible historic evidence.

The quest for roots has been an enduring American preoccupation. Over the centuries, generations have sketched coats of arms, embroidered family trees, establis

An astonishing untold story from the nineteenth century—a “riveting…engrossing…‘American Epic’” (The Wall Street Journal) and necessary work of hi

Katherine Scott Sturdevant shows you how to use social history -- the study of "ordinary people's everyday lives" -- to add depth, detail, and drama to your fam