The wreck now lies on the floor of a small harbor on the island of Nosy Boraha off the northeast coast of Madagascar, which ...

“Trainwreck: Poop Cruise” tells the tale of an infamous cruise ship disaster over ten years later. The 55-minute film, ...

We’ve come from slave ship to spaceship, and we will continue to rise into endeavors far beyond that.” Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier airs tonight at 8 p.m. ET on the Smithsonian ...

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 ...

Complaints of crimes and missing person reports on cruises that dock at U.S. ports have surged in recent years, fueling what one security expert calls a “dark cloud” over an industry eager to protect ...

The writer discusses her revealing new book of poetry, “Woman Without Shame,” her peripatetic life, and that infamous blurb for “American Dirt.” A new documentary tells the story of the last known ...

Packed with maritime and colonial history, Maryland’s capital city of Annapolis also offers tons of ways to get out on the ...

As the world celebrates Austen's 250th birthday, scholars share what makes the patron saint of marriage plots more popular ...

It wasn’t just that the U.S. lacked cargo shipping capacity that she needed so many ships, Steward said. The ships also had to contend with German U-boats — early submarines.

Slavery wasn’t limited to the American South. In the late 1730s, a young boy in Guinea was kidnapped and taken on a slave ship to New England. He grew up as an enslaved person but went on to buy his ...

John Quincy Adams exemplified the courage and commitment to our founding ideals that made an end to slavery possible.