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 ...

Now her living grandchildren are learning of her life and legacy. An undated portrait of Matilda McCrear, the slave ship Clotilda's last survivor, shows her in her later years. She died in 1940 at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...