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 ...

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 ...

The scan of the storied ship was carried out over three weeks in ... (equivalent to the hard drive footprint of six million e-books). To create it, two remote-operated robots romantically named ...

The ocean is as flat as a swimming pool. Not an iceberg in sight. Between April 15, 1912, when the ship hit an iceberg while trying to break the England-to-New York speed record for an ocean liner ...

LA: Tara's book, Written in the Waters ... that's likely not what you're going to see around a slave ship. And that's because most of these ships were built out of wood and so when they wreck ...

“Today, the Supreme Court is expected to rule in the case of People v. Guy Who Will Ignore the Ruling.” “Of all the times not to be extinct.” ...