An article about the unsolved theft at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston on 18 March 1990; the priceless paintings remain missing to this day... (Read More)
Discover Old English last name meanings and medieval origins. Learn about Anglo-Saxon surnames, their etymology, and how to trace your English ancestry... (Read More)
Gena Philibert-Ortega explains what the Genealogical Proof Standard is, and how it helps genealogists ensure that their research is credible... (Read More)
An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about using DNA results, newspaper articles, census records, and other sources to fill in details on his family tree... (Read More)
An article about “Bloody Sunday,” when police in Selma, Alabama, attacked a peaceful march of African American demonstrators on 7 March 1965... (Read More)
An article about the U.S. Supreme Court issuing its Dred Scott decision on 6 March 1857, ruling that Blacks could not be citizens in the United States... (Read More)
In this article, Thomas Jay Kemp writes about 2nd Lt. James Pelosi and the punishment of the “silent treatment” he received at West Point... (Read More)
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