Robert Smalls​ escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship and became a top Union naval officer and ...

Robert Smalls​ escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship and became a top Union naval officer and South Carolina lawmaker.

Wikimedia Commons/Richmond Compiler The Creole Rebellion of 1841 The Creole was just another slave ship crossing the Atlantic in November 1841, carrying human cargo to Southern markets. Then Madison ...

1928—The Atlanta Daily World be­gins publication as the first Black dai­ly newspaper in modern times. It was founded by William A. Scott III. Amaz­ingly, the first Black daily newspaper in history—the ...

Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell supposedly started the call by saying, "We have to bring slavery back. Those were the good old ...

The U.S. Army’s 3rd Multi-Domain Task Force conducted in the opening days of Exercise Talisman Sabre 2025 the first Mid-Range Capability live fire ...

The Titanic. The Lusitania. The Costa Concordia. We all know about these horrifying maritime tragedies, but few remember the chilling history of the Prinzessin Victoria Luise. Not only was it the ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

Malaysia’s energy giant Petronas has successfully loaded its first liquefied natural gas cargo from the LNG Canada project that recently started commercial operations.

This includes researching, discovering, and documenting slave shipwrecks, such as The Guerrero, a Spanish slave ship that wrecked in 1827 near the Florida Keys.