Novelist Amy Tan has always turned to her own family for writing inspiration. "The Joy Luck Club," one of her most famous ...

A recent episode of PBS documentary series "Finding Your Roots" featured Rita Dove, an award-winning poet from Akron.

On Tuesday’s edition of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr., the theme was Italian heritage week as both The View ...

The longtime PBS series host reveals some of the surprises in store in the coming episodes, including one of his own.

In PEOPLE's exclusive first look at the Jan. 14 episode of 'Finding My Roots', Joy Behar discovered just how close her family ...

Amanda Seyfried, during a new episode of 'Finding Your Roots,' learns that her third great-grandfather was murdered in 1905. See an exclusive clip.

Michael Imperioli learns about his family history on an episode of Finding Your Roots out on January 14. He learns they were ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reveals inspiring ancestors of novelist Amy Tan & poet Rita Dove.

“I know our stories speak to people because I am stopped everywhere by old and young; white and Black; Christian, and Hindu, and they say, ‘We love your show,'” Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the Italian roots of Joy Behar & Michael Imperioli.

While Imperioli discovered that his ancestors included a man who arrived with just $12 and became a rule-breaker in the era of Prohibition, Behar discovered some more devastating facts about her ...

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