At Christiansborg Castle, a community that embodied the complexity of the transatlantic slave trade is being uncovered by descendants of those who created it Along a stretch of the West African coast ...

Book to movie adaptations are common, but some novels don't make it easy for the director. These 10 films were deemed ...

As Siddharth Kara relates in this harrowing but fascinating book, “the Zorg’s trans-Atlantic crossing plumbed the depths of ...

On July 8, 1860, 110 kidnapped West Africans were offloaded from the ‘Clotilda’ in Alabama’s Mobile River. ‘Clotilda’ sailed in 52 years after the international trade in human beings was outlawed in ...

Hidden for six centuries, the largest known medieval cargo ship, known as a cog, has been uncovered off the coast of ...

Olaudah Equiano's harrowing first-person account of being captured in Africa, transported across the Atlantic in horrific conditions aboard a slave ship, and sold into slavery in colonial America.

The year's most exciting discoveries included the site where a young George Washington stopped a friendly fire incident, the ...

Human trafficking at sea hides behind dark fleets and opaque ownership. Reporters exposing exploitation in the high seas use ...

The FBI is investigating her death. The family of 18-year-old Anna Kepner, who was reported dead while aboard the Carnival Horizon cruise ship on Saturday, says they will remember her as a happy, ...

The search for Apongo is a small part of historians’ ongoing work to recreate the lives of Africans taken in the ...

One of the most memorable images by Greek historian Herodotus depicts Persian King Xerxes ordering the sea to be punished ...

Satellite imagery shows at least eight US military vessels have been operating in the Caribbean in December, as tensions between the US and Venezuela escalate. It follows a series of US air strikes ...