New research has indicated that two ships found in Costa Rica, once thought by archaeologists to be pirate ships, were ...

The state-owned traffic triangle at the intersection of America's Cup and Upper Thames Street is planned to house the ...

The historical marker for the St. Louis Hotel, the most famous slave auction site in New Orleans, is placed at the back of ...

Outside of historians, academics and the generational memories of Black New Orleanians, relatively few people understand the ...

Finding myself in the other Charleston over the long weekend as a byproduct of the youth travel sports racket, I decided to ...

Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown — for a five-day immersion into history with Road Scholar. Each site brought surprises ...

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 ...

Two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, previously thought to have been pirate ships, have been confirmed to be two Danish slave ships, a museum said Sunday. "Investigations of ...

Foster left West Africa with 110 young men, women, and children crowded into the schooner ... But a national slave ship memorial—akin to the watery grave of the U.S.S. Arizona in Pearl Harbor ...

What’s known is that in 1619, two Angolans named Anthony and Isabella, along with 20 or so others, staggered off a ship into Point ... “The regard that master and slave had for each other ...