We explore how contemplating our heritage can make us feel more belonging, gratitude, and confidence in what we're capable of achieving. Oral historian Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz knows the profound impact ...

Maybe it’s because 23andMe claimed I have “more Neanderthal DNA than 81 percent of other customers.” (That’s only ~2 percent of my genes, but my older brother happily quipped he could tell me I’m a ...

The retired professor rolls paper into his typewriter, ready to transcribe the past. Old family letters from antebellum days mention women named Penny and Grace. Who were they? Jameson Jones wonders.

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Nutrition influencers claim we should eat meat-heavy diets like our ancestors did. But our ancestors didn't actually eat that way When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Local author Quinn Miller Murphy’s childhood in a multiracial household taught her about the importance of food for connecting with family and heritage. She was also a big reader as a kid, but growing ...

SANTA YNEZ, Calif. (KABC) -- This is part one of a two-part series. See part two here. Across the country, Native American tribes are struggling to reclaim what was taken from them over the course of ...

A researcher who has lived and worked with hunter-gatherer tribes said we can learn from premodern societies how to live longer and healthier.

Heritage words add a new wrinkle to an old tradition, writes a linguistics scholar.