slavery

“Somehow a shame was put on this story.”

The study is a continuation of DNA work to help people find their ancestors.

State says it will replace Tubman marker with a more accurate one.

The methods could be a seachange for how Black Americans understand their genealogy.

We’ll go On the Record with historian David O. Stewart on Presidents Day. He traces George Washington’s skills as a political operator, as well as the first president’s failure to speak out against slavery as he came to realize its evils.

What would you do for your freedom?

We’ll go On the Record with award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson to ask what moved him as he researched the lives of the Maryland icons of freedom Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass and how he sees their legacies.

We’ll go On the Record with Towson University history professor Andrew Diemer, who traces the fight for rights for Black people through the 19th century. His book is "Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad."

What would you do for your freedom?

In a frank new memoir, the author and journalist reckons with a family legacy of slave ownership, and a life of white privelege.