The heroic conductor on the Underground Railroad was reared on the site in the wilderness of Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

Before 1619, enslaved landed in Florida. In 1738, their descendants founded the country’s first free Black settlement, Fort ...

So you’ve made it to Key West on your cruise or arrived for a day trip. You have a limited amount of time to explore this tiny tropical island before you pull out for your next stop. What are you ...

Deep beneath the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, a remarkable hunt is unfolding. Joe Sziga, a retired fisherman turned treasure ...

following Britain's 1807 abolition of the African slave trade, the Royal Navy's Preventative Squadron attempted to stop the traffic of stupendously profitable human cargoes to the New World. While ...

The storyteller joins a team of African American divers on their worldwide quest to shed light on the untold history of the ...

A 5th century wooden ‘stitched ship’ – recreated using ancient stitching techniques and constructed using coconut fiber stitching, traditional wooden joinery, coir rope and natural resins and powered ...

TAIPEI: Taiwan detained a Chinese-crewed cargo ship on Tuesday (Feb 25) after a subsea telecoms cable was severed off the island, the coast guard said. It is the latest in a series of Taiwanese ...

'Healthy and good looking': Chinese consumers go bonkers for bagels ...

Sixty feet beneath the waters off Costa Rica's Caribbean coast lie the remains of the Christianus Quintus and the Fredericus Quartus—two Danish slave ships that sank here ... to sketch images of coral ...

Mysterious and fascinating artifacts are surfacing on melting glaciers across the planet. From strange wooden tools and statues to ancient human remains, these objects are drawing archaeologists ...