The setting for their flights was what became known as the “Blue Highway,” which ran up and down the Eastern Seaboard and ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 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.

The Salisbury-Rowan NAACP, Rowan Museum, and Soldiers’ Memorial AME Zion Church invite the community to a Memorial Day Commemoration Ceremony and March on May 25 at 3 p.m., beginning at Soldiers ...

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

The U.S. Navy on Friday announced its plans for a preservation project coordinated with the National Park Service for Pearl ...

They commemorate an 1830 catastrophe when a slave ship failed to properly anchor in Anse Cafard and careened into Martinique's Diamond Rock Mountain, killing many of the passengers and sailors as ...