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From Share Croppers to Land Ownership with Gwenn Olson

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Roots and Beyond with Chris Haley

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When The Archive Goes Silent with Regina"Califa" Calloway

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Ancestral Connections: How Oral History and Land Records Revealed Homestead Connections in Alabama with Mary K. Clark, Ph.D.

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Finding Cornerstone Stories: Uncovering Inspiration in Your Family's History with André Kearns

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Carolina Roots & Legacies- Discovering the Stories That Connect Us with Desi L. Campbell

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The Story of Louise from $500 to Priceless with Leonard Smith III

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Pairing Traditional History and Migration Patterns in Genealogy and Research with Rev.Dante Eubanks

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Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Civil Rights with Dylan C. Penningroth

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The Power of Family History: Discovering Identity Through Ancestry with Denise Griggs

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Beyond the 1870 Brickwall with Descendants of the St. Louis University Enslaved with Robin Proudie

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The Story Lives On: Tracing Freedom, Faith, and Family Through Generations with Carol A. Turner

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Enslaved on the Trail of Tears with Terry J. Ligon

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The Choctaw Freedmen of Skullyville with Angela Walton-Raji

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Behind the Gavel- Lessons from Chief Justice Bernette J. Johnson and KaTrina Chantelle Griffin

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Memories That Heal: How Family Stories and Photos Can Support Healthy Aging with Rick Voight

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Freedom in the Age of Slavery: A History of Free People of Color in Virginia with Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.

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1776: The Forgotten Fight for Freedom with Andrew Lawler

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When Your Ancestors Choose You: Finding Binky with Michael A. Willis

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Celia: Justice After Death with Adriene Holder, Esq., and Pamela Westbrooks-Hodge

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DNA, Genealogy, and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre with Lisa Fanning

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Our Claiborne Parish: Family History Project of Communal Kinship with Regina Califa Calloway

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Gather at the Table Revisited with Sharon Morgan and Thomas Norman Dewolf

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Building Justice Through Ancestry with Christopher Smothers

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Becoming A Good Relative with Hilary Giovale

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Finding Grammie's Secrets with Kathy Lynne Marshall

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America's Forgotten Patriots of the Northern Theater with Ric Murphy

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Becoming Trustworthy White Allies with Melanie S. Morrison

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From Fragments to Foundation with Melvin J. Collier

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Without Fear:Black Women and the Making of Human Rights with Keisha N. Blain

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The Early County Massacre- Goolsby vs.The State of Georgia with Orice Jenkins

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Reflections on Sarah Rector with Angela Walton-Raji

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Reconnecting Creole of Color Lineages in Southwest Louisiana with Alex D. Lee

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The Sound of What's Not Said with Charles Holman III

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History Before Us with Frederick Murphy

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They Had Names: A Digital Archive with Stacy Ashmore Cole

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Creek Freedmen, Historic Developments out of Oklahoma with Angela Walton-Raji

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Black Ancestries- A New Model for African Descended Genealogy with Andre Kearns

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Striking the Balance: Challenges interpreting free Black Communities with Guy Weston

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At the Feet of the Elders: A Journey into a Lowcountry Family History with Darius Brown

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Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance with A'Lelia Bundles

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Back to the Frontier with Stacey and Joaquin Loper

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Enslaved.org with Dr. Walter Hawthorne

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Edisto Gullah Geechee People of Orangeburg, SC with Roderick Gass

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Preserving History with Our Stories with Marion Woodfork Simmons

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Genealogy in Reverse: Finding the Living with Cheri Hudson Passey

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Preserving History Through Historical Markers with Dr. Antoinette Harrell

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The Power of Collaborative Genealogy with Emmaline MacBeath

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Overlooked: Early Black History in Minnesota with Mica Anders

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Learning Larkin, My Civil War Ancestor with Cherekana Feliciano

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The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir with Martha S. Jones

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Freedmen's Bureau Friday with Dr. Shelley Viola Murphy

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Searching for My American cousins with Martine Brennan

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The Front Porch Genealogist with Terri Ward

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Midwest African American Genealogy Institute with Dr. Shelley Murphy, Lisa Fanning and Angela Walton-Raji

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The McGowan Funeral Home Collection: Rescuing & Reviving Community Memories with Alvin Blakes

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In My Ancestors’ Footsteps From Adgateville to Africa with Patricia Glover-Howard

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Own Your Narrative: Tell Your Story or Someone Else Will Tell It For You with Anita Henderson

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A Free Man of Color from Charleston: Abraham Ashe with Joel Johnson

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The Life and Legacy of Dr. Matilda Evans with Dr. Walter B. Curry Jr.

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The Legacy of Malery Quitman Wells: Perserverance, Character and Hope with Nicole L. Wells

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Moses Williams (1776-1830), his Family & Gradual Emancipation with Dr. Ellen Fernandez-Sacco

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Written in the Waters- A Memoir with Tara Roberts

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Confessions of a Black Academic with Dr. Alvin J. Schexnider

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Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood with Fatima Shaik

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After the Release of The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia with Karen Branan

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Before Jim Crow: America's Slave Codes & Black Laws with Victoria Robinson

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The GulfsideAssemblyStory with Leonard Smith lll

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Reason to Fight with Hiram Johnson

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Incidents of A Slavery and Plantation Interpreter with Ja'el Gordon

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BORN MISSIONARY: THE ISLAY WALDEN STORY with Margo Lee Williams

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Black Homesteaders - Margo Lee Williams, Orice Jenkins, Dr. Shelley Murphy

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Celebrating Ten Years of Broadcasting with Bernice Alexander Bennett

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Bound to History: Leoncia Lasalle's Slave Narrative with Ellen Fernandez-Sacco

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Databases For Family History Research of Enslaved People with Sasha Mitchell

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Short Subject Journaling with DearMYRTLE (Pat Richley-Erickson)

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Finding Empowerment on the Family Tree: The Story of Mammy with Gaynell Brady

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Reframing Narratives of Enslaver Research with Adrienne Fikes

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The Oldest Among U.S., The Elders of the Trask 250 with Nicka Sewell Smith

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USCT Pension Records and Genealogy Tell a Community’s Story with Tina Jones

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Funeral Programs Tell the Community Story with Dr. Antoinette Harrell

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Uncovering the Story about Jordon B. Noble with Alex Trapps-Chabala

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Using Narrative Inquiry in Family History with Walter Curry Jr., Ed.D

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Did My Ancestor Crash the 1855 Fusion (Republican) Convention? Kathy Marshall

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The Daughter Dialogues podcast with Reisha Raney

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Mapping Miles from the Antebellum South to Freedom with Tanisha L. Watson

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Go Tell It On the Mountain: Rev. W.J. Hightower with James Morgan lll

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Preserving Sites of Power, Prestige, and Significance with Dr. Joy G. Kinard

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Using Multiple Sources to Find Your Family’s “Kunta Kinte” with Jerome Spears

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Center for Healing and Racial Trauma with Dr. Candice Nicole Hargons

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Freedmen of the Frontier - Vols. 1 and 2 with Angela Walton-Raji

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Nancy & William Syphax - From Slavery to Freedom with Steve Hammond

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Finding Female Ancestors When Few Clues Exist with Viola Baskerville

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An 1829 Slave Bill of Sale & A Question with Janice Cross-Gilyard

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Finding Calvin with Renate Yarborough Sanders

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One Branch Many Discoveries with Adrienne Abiodun

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Runaway Slave Ads of Edgefield County with Jerome A. Gaines

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Quick Start Writing Your Ancestor's Stories with Kathy Lynne Marshall

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The Moses Williams Project with Brian Sheffey

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North Carolina Free People of Color, 1715-1885 with Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.