Maritime disasters are sadly not unusual, and UNESCO estimates that there are more than three million shipwrecks littering ...

There is a piece of Black history that lies at the bottom of the ocean. During the 400-year trans-Atlantic slave trade, 12,000 ships brought 12.5 million Africans to the Americas. But not every slave ...

A new era is born.

Between the 16th and 19th centuries, millions of enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas across the Atlantic ocean on a voyage known as the “Middle Passage." One group is taking a ...

for the descendants of slaves in America. It can be difficult to trace one's family history, but now researchers who were investigating the last known slave ship to ever arrive in the US, the Clotilde ...

Long before WWII’s U-boat wolfpacks made headlines, one German sub was already rewriting the rules of naval warfare. SM U-35 ...

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