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

Here in the hot Alabama sun, she remembers Oluale’s greatest sacrifice and reflects on what it meant to him to be one of the last known survivors of the Clotilda. In 1860, the slave ship took the ...

I have an ancestor who was in Massachusetts in 1640. What is the best way to research ships that arrived before that time?

For more than a century, Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Henry Shackleton's 144-foot long ship "Endurance" was lost off the coast of Antarctica beneath the icy Weddell Sea. In 2022, the ship was found ...

Researchers aim to uncover more details about the ship's history, its crew and life aboard a 17th - century vessel through continued dives. Eriksson said they were struck by how similar Falken was ...

Juneteenth celebrates the fall of slavery in the U.S. At the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit, programming included art workshops, yoga and a panel featuring the descendants of slaves. On a ...

Officials said the ship was found by a French Navy unit during a military operation on March 4. ARCHAEOLOGIST SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON ASTONISHING DISCOVERY OF WRECKED SLAVE SHIPS: 'STRANDED ON THE COAST' ...

Underwater pictures show a plethora of handmade ceramics near the wrecked ship. Historians believe the well-crafted artifacts originated from Liguria, Italy. HAUNTING SLAVE SHIPS FOUND OFF COAST ...

Pilot/Tribune News Service via Getty Images As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary in 2026, the country’s semiquincentennial (an anniversary that sadly lacks the pithy brevity of 1976’s ...