Shudder has shared a poster and trailer for writer-director Mike Wiluan’s upcoming creature feature. Set in WWII, the horror ...

Robert Smalls published a newspaper, established a transportation company and served five terms in the United States Congress ...

The ocean floor is a graveyard containing the remains of historic voyages and the wreckage of small-scale maritime tragedies.

"This thing comes back – we need to be ready for it!" Shudder has revealed an official trailer for Monster Island, an indie horror thriller made by Singaporean filmmaker Mike Wiluan. It's a creature ...

Slave Narrative. National Museum ... bullet-shaped central motif of this work reverses the well-known 18th-century illustration of the plan of the British slave ship Brookes to draw attention to the ...

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of June 29-July 5 include new Tony Award-winner Nicole Scherzinger, “Saturday ...

The American Civil War. Remember it? Well, no, because you weren't alive. But you've read about it, and the Civil War ...

Juneteenth celebrates the fall of slavery in the U.S. At the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit, visitors heard from descendants of slaves.

Kim DeMarco. Most recently, Igbo Landing inspired Marlon Forrester’s new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. In his series of paintings If Black Saints Could Fly 23: si ...

Last American slave ship is discovered in Alabama. The schooner Clotilda smuggled African captives into the U.S. in 1860, more than 50 years after importing slaves was outlawed.

The Slave Wrecks Project, coördinated by the Smithsonian, uses maritime archeology to explore sunken ships such as the Clotilda and the Camargo. Julian Lucas reports.

From the pilot house, Smalls blows the ship’s whistle while passing Confederate Forts Johnson and, at 4:15 a.m., Fort Sumter, “as cooly as if General Ripley was on board.” ...