Our recommendations for summer reading in 2025, featuring many books from Wisconsin writers, and including selections for ...

“The Agency” is a spy thriller with a brilliant cast that includes Richard Gere (“The Jackal”), Jeffrey Wright (“American Fiction”), Jodie Turner-Smith (“The Last Ship”) and ...

Archaeologists recently made a startling discovery: They found that two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Central America were actually two Danish slave ships. The ships, named Fridericus ...

Archaeologists are shedding light on the astonishing identification of two 18th-century slave ships off the coast of Central America. The ships, named Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus ...

The German Coast Uprising was the largest slave revolt in United States history. The 1831 Nat Turner rebellion ... from the start,” writes historian Joseph E. Holloway, “and yet slaves ...

According to a statement released by the National Museum of Denmark, however, a new investigation revealed them to be the remains of two former Danish slave ships that dramatically sank more than ...

An overland journey north was an impractical choice for many who sought to escape bondage. Some fugitives took to the sea.

The findings of an alleged slave ship off the coast of Costa Rica. (photo credit: National Museum of Denmark) Marine archaeologists have confirmed that two shipwrecks off Costa Rica’s southern ...

“The analyses are very convincing and we no longer have any doubts that these are the wrecks of the two Danish slave ships,” said marine archaeologist David Gregory, a research professor and ...