THE RUMPUS Features “WHAT THEY NEVER TOLD ME, WHAT I NEVER ASKED: REFLECTING ON ROOTS AND WRITING”
While the miracle of analyzing your DNA can inform you of the origins of your ancestry, it will not offer you much about what they experienced, what they thought, what they felt, learned or endured in their lifetimes. Historians surely understand the pangs of such a loss and must rely on those who bore witness […]