Denmark's National Museum said two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica were previously thought to have been ...

Two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, previously thought to have been pirate ships, have been confirmed to ...

Centuries after Danish ships carrying enslaved people from West Africa disappeared in the Caribbean, the charred and ...

The remains of two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica , previously thought to be pirate ships, have finally ...

Danish slave ships from 1710 confirmed in Cahuita National Park, Costa Rica. Excavations reveal Fridericus Quartus and ...

A nearly six-decades old initiative to digitize records of the trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trades is moving to ...

Esek Hopkins was born on April 26, 1718 in Scituate to a prominent Rhode Island family. Hopkins became a merchant and sea ...

Yom HaShoah taught one writer empathy. Now, looking at photos of men deported under Trump in El Salvador, we need to re-learn ...

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African American church leaders are speaking out over budget cuts being proposed by the Trump White House. The Smithsonian ...

Portraits of the honorees, who have made "transformative contributions to the United States," will be added to the permanent ...