History presents the Whydah Gally's crew as swashbuckling sailors who looted a fortune before perishing in a storm. But ...

Shipwreck hunters investigating a patch of the Mediterranean Sea between Spain and Morocco have uncovered a “heavily armed pirate vessel” from the 17th century which experts call “a precious echo of ...

A: Well, as the labor system of the American South began to transform out of indentured servitude into racial slavery in that period -- the 1660s to 1700, to the end of the 17th century -- the British ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONDON (AP) — A statue of a 17th-century ...