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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. heads west to map the family trees of Sara Haines and Tracy Letts.
Brittney Griner discovers the origin of the "Adams" name on her father's side.
Chris Paul discovers the first labor contract his paternal family ever signed.
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.
For flowering plants to take over, they first helped burn the old world—and then put the fires out.
There’s a new generation of experiments that may unlock the gravity particle.
Ancient weeds mimicked crops, tricking farmers into domesticating friends—and enemies—by mistake.
Brains and brawn aren’t opposites—they’ve been linked far longer than we might think.
George visits chemists and discovers that Mexican Coke is doing something secretive.
The universe thrums with quantum fields, except something may be missing: the sterile neutrino.