I’m here to join Viking’s Mississippi Delta Explorer river cruise from New Orleans to Memphis, the birthplace of blues and ...

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

Pirate shipwrecks off Costa Rica, long shrouded in mystery, have been revealed to hide a dramatic 1710 maritime story lost to ...

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 ...

While the Trump administration tries to downplay matters of race and racism in US history, the minister of a Providence ...

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 ...

The United States Treasury and State Departments on Monday announced sanctions targeting three ships and their owning companies for aiding Houthi terrorists in Yemen. According to the Treasury ...

We were all wondering what that big, chonky ship that Saw Gerrera's Partisans use in Andor Season 2. It's a YV-865 ...

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.

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