An antislavery spy who worked for the British in New York in the 1800s lived in a house that is now home to an allergy doctor ...

Slavery Patrols The USS Constellation splashed into the water at Gosport Navy Yard in Virginia on August 26, 1854. This ...

First, they prevented any Chagossians who had left on vacation or for medical treatment from returning home. Next, they cut off food and medical supplies to the islands. Finally, they deported the ...

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to explore a shipwreck, pilot a remotely operated vehicle or touch artifacts that ...

The movie series began in 2003 with the premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, where we join pirate captain Jack Sparrow and blacksmith Will Turner, p ...

We love sci-fi movies for their bold ideas that help us imagine the future of the Earth and life on distant planets. But sometimes we come across film ...

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...

What is also clear from the slave names on the manifests of the slave trade ships is that the enslaved African-Americans of Virginia and Maryland did have a rich and extended family structure ...

Underwater archaeologists may have found the Recovery, an 18th-century British treasure ship lost off Wexford, Ireland, that carried valuable cargo including marble and bronze.

More troubles for the cargo ship that caught fire earlier this month off Alaska's Aleutian Island chain. Officials report the Morning Midas sank Monday. The ship caught on fire June 3, and all 22 ...