It’s a whole nother level of diving. You’re taking measurements, writing them down underwater, and then coming back up and ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. At first, this might look like any ...

In a similar vein, Vice President Vance has claimed that Americans who can trace their ancestry to those who fought in the Civil War are more American than those who can’t. The historian David Hackett ...

On the way down I saw nothing. The water was a blur of teal fringed with rusty shadows, darkening, about twenty feet below, to a sickly emerald. I followed a rope strung between a buoy and a stake in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Museum of African American History and Culture will modify its exhibit focused on the transatlantic slave trade later this month. This change coincides with the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Black divers undertake an annual spiritual pilgrimage to an underwater memorial of the Henrietta Marie, a British ...

Archaeologists recently made a startling discovery: They found that two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Central America were actually two Danish slave ships. The ships, named Fridericus ...

Following the conclusion of a 10-year loan to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), wooden artifacts, including ship timber, from the São José slave ...

Over more than three centuries, more than 12 million Africans were loaded on ships, bound for the Americas to be slaves. Aboard the slaver, or Guineaman, as the vessels were also known, the kidnapped ...

HOUSTON -- While ships like the Mayflower, Titanic, and Santa Maria are commonly remembered, few can name even one of the estimated 12,000 vessels that carried enslaved Africans across the Middle ...