Ancestors

From origin stories to blood-purity statutes, we have long enlisted genealogy to serve our own purposes.

In 1898, white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, staged a coup and murdered dozens of Black residents. More than a century later, a team of volunteers tries to track down every living relative of the victims.

Jennifer Mendelsohn turns the tables on Trump’s anti-immigrant mouthpieces by digging through their genealogical records.

Through a practice that is part therapy and part séance, children of war come to terms with their history.