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Podcast: The Cosmopolitan
Episode: Episode 99: Historicizing the Search for Roots
Description: Podcast: The Way of Improvement Leads Home: American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic life. (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Episode 99: Historicizing the Search for RootsPub date: 2022-04-10Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDo you do genealogical research? In this episode, historian Francesca Morgan talks about her new book A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in U.S. History. She discusses Americans' fascination with tracking family lineage through three centuries and how the practice has intersected with race, class...