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For more than a decade, renowned Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has helped to expand America’s sense of itself, stimulating a national conversation about identity with humor, wisdom, and compassion. Professor Gates has explored the ancestry of dozens of influential people from diverse backgrounds, taking millions of viewers deep into the past to reveal the connections that bind us all.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. maps the roots of actor Kate Burton and media mogul Barry Diller.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the families of Danielle Deadwyler and Rhiannon Giddens.
Kristin learns about her third great-grandfather, Pierre, who was born in France.
Corporate support for Season 11 of FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. is provided by Gilead Sciences, Inc., Ancestry® and Johnson & Johnson. Major support is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Support is also provided by Ford Foundation; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Candace King Weir; by the Inkwell Society together with many of its members; and by public television viewers.
Only twice in Earth's history have supermountains risen, and both times reshaped life forever.
Gödel found a time-travel solution in General Relativity, revealing spacetime can loop on itself.
Tracing the violence, protests and arrests stemming from federal immigration sweeps across the U.S.
Was the T-Rex given the wrong name?
Tardigrades can survive almost anything—even most of Mars. But one Martian chemical stops even them.
500+ pterosaur fossils found at Solnhofen may be hiding a dark secret distorting our view of them.