The Cosmopolitan

Episode 99: Historicizing the Search for Roots


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Episode: Episode 99: Historicizing the Search for Roots
Pub date: 2022-04-10

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Do you do genealogical research? In this episode, historian Francesca Morgan talks about her new book A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in U.S. History. She discusses Americans' fascination with tracking family lineage through three centuries and how the practice has intersected with race, class, religion, and commercialism. 

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