The racing stripes of Coast Guard ships serve as important branding and ... That emblem boasts that the U.S. Coast Guard was founded back in 1790 (originally known as the Revenue Marine), but ...

In 2010, construction crews working in Lower Manhattan found the remains of a Revolutionary War-era gunboat buried deep underground. Now, after years of restoration work, the 18th-century vessel has ...

Filip Vezdin, a Croatian missionary and scholar, pioneered Sanskrit studies in Europe. His printed grammar, cultural analyses ...

If you want to make diet choices that help the planet, the most common and effective advice is to eat fewer animals and more ...

Scientists mapping a part of the bottom of the ocean humans haven't properly researched before needed to use robots for their ...

Starting in the 18th century, members of the Martin family began to arrive in the Lehigh Valley. From the first they numbered ...

(See also: Last American slave ship is discovered in Alabama.) A 1790 engraving showing the cramped, inhuman stowage arrangements on the British slave ship Brookes. Photograph by Album While ...

Also on this date: In 1790, Rhode Island became the 13th and final ... in eastern Quebec after colliding with the Norwegian cargo ship SS Storstad; of the 1,477 people on board the Empress of ...

The War of 1812 is one of our forgotten wars, skimmed over in school lessons and rarely the subject of movies. To the British ...

A petition has been launched to save one of Scotland's oldest ferry crossings. The Renfrew - Yoker ferry first began ...