A nearly six-decades old initiative to digitize records of the trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trades is moving to ...

The lettercard, penned by one of the Titanic’s best-known survivors just days before the steamship sank, smashed estimates to sell for £300,000 ($399,000) at a UK auction.

Days before the Titanic struck an iceberg, a first-class passenger, Col. Archibald Gracie, described the vessel in a letter written while on board: "It is a fine ship but I shall await my journey's ...

Danish slave ships from 1710 confirmed in Cahuita National Park, Costa Rica. Excavations reveal Fridericus Quartus and ...

A lettercard penned by one of the Titanic’s most well-known survivors from onboard the ship, days before it sank, has sold ...

The missive from the doomed ship read, “It is a fine ship but I shall await my journeys end before I pass judgment on her.” ...

Discover what it's like to sail aboard the 44-passenger Harmony G along the coast of West Africa and up the Gambia River.

Regardless of the role, David Hyde Pierce plays basically the same nebbish guy, and always, he’s simply marvelous on stage.

What Flanagan understands is that the real story of America includes the story of slavery. He looked around at all the people ...