In 1839, Sengbe Pieh, also known as Joseph Cinque, along with hundreds of others from the West African village of Mendeland, ...

An overland journey north was an impractical choice for many who sought to escape bondage. Some fugitives took to the sea.

A journey to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture took me places I will not soon forget.

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...

What were once believed to be pirate shipwrecks have now been definitively identified astwo Danish slave ships that sank in ...

U.S. Coast Guard searching for potential sunken ship near Cannon Beach ...

History never ceases to surprise us with recent discoveries, as has happened in Costa Rica, as several scientific analyses have confirmed that the wooden ships shipwrecked off its ...

Two shipwrecks in Costa Rica were long thought to be sunken pirate ships. New research shows they were actually Danish slave ships. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with archaeologist Andreas Bloch.

The owner of the space, Alexis Noble, said they extended the exhibit because it coincidentally has ties to the new Blockbuster film "Sinners," which is based in Mississippi.

For a decade, the president has said he wants to emulate “record-holder” Dwight D. Eisenhower, but the 1954 claims were phony ...

A host of beloved authors have new books hitting shelves this week, including a memoir by humorist Barry, a Mark Twain bio by ...