Back in 2019, I wrote a feature story announcing that the Blount County Genealogical and Historical Society had compiled all known copies of the late Lorene Smith’s column, Digging for Ancestors, into ...

Check out a glimpse of "What Did My Ancestors Eat?" by Quinn Miller Murphy. The cover of "What Did my Ancestors Eat?" by Quinn Miller Murphy. Simon & Schuster Food is more than just sustenance. Often, ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A new book unveils a unique perspective on the living realities of those who were enslaved on southern plantations. A collaboration between historian Joe McGill, and Herb ...

In her debut book, Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation (Random House, Mar. 2022), Maud Newton weaves an interest in her family’s history into a memoir that embraces genealogy, history, ...

Writer Maud Newton, who was born in Dallas and raised in Miami, has turned her fascination with her unconventional family into the nonfiction book Ancestor Trouble, which is due out March 29. Her ...

Linda Holmes tells us of her experience learning about a long deceased relative who had written letters and kept a diary during the Civil War. She then tells about how she went about writing a book to ...

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 ...