“If taken at face value, records and their “facts” can deceive, mislead, or confuse us.” - Elizabeth Shown Mills     Anyone who has done gen...

"Thorough research, I would argue, is not just "looking everywhere." It's not "a search in all logical places...

A group of historical documents form a body of evidence which allows us to draw conclusions about events and relationships in a pe...

In October 1907, a Freedman (former slave) named Benjamin (aka Ben) Vann filed an Eastern Cherokee application for a share of the money ow...

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