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Reunion: A Podcast About Family Histories

Reunion: A Podcast About Family Histories

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Reunion is a podcast about how family history helps us understand the past and why it matters in the present. The series is sponsored by the Center for Family History and Genealogy and the Family History Program at Brigham Young University, which offers the only undergraduate degree in family history.

Every two weeks we speak with scholars, educators, and storytellers who use family history to ask large questions about history, kinship, and identity. Studying families shows what mattered most to people in the past and how those values shaped the world we inhabit now.

Family history is more than names and dates. It is a way to think about memory, emotion, power, and connection. It gives historians a flexible method for understanding subjects that range from slavery and migration to religious conversion and cultural memory.

I am Joseph Stuart, joined by my colleague Christopher Jones. We are assistant professors of history and faculty in BYU’s Family History Program.

This is Reunion. We are glad you are here.

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    • Reunion 01: Genealogy and Power with Karin Wulf

      Reunion 01: Genealogy and Power with Karin Wulf
      Jan 2 2026

      In a Virginia courtroom in the mid-1700s, a woman named Mary Aggy stood before a judge, not to defend herself with a lawyer, but with a lineage. She traced her ancestry back to a free woman, arguing that her own enslavement was unlawful. Her case rested not on testimony or character, but on genealogy. In early America, family history could mean the difference between bondage and freedom.

      But Mary Aggy wasn’t alone. Across the colonies, people used family trees to claim land, assert status, and protect privilege. Genealogy wasn’t just a record of who begat whom; it was a form of power. It shaped who belonged, who ruled, and who was remembered. In her book Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America, historian Karin Wulf uncovers how family history was used to build nations, enforce hierarchies, and sometimes, challenge them. Today, we talk with her about how the past was organized through kinship, and why understanding those structures still matters in the present.
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