One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

A nonprofit, the Capital Region Land Conservancy, wants to give the land at 1401 and 1421 Brander St. as a gift to the city.

But historians know very little about the individuals aboard these slave ships. More often than not, their existence was reflected in numbers on ledgers and spreadsheets. Their birth names ...

At the Follow Your Roots dinner in New York City, five Black chefs cooked with ingredients that define the African Diaspora.

How patrons of the arts became plutocrats aboard yachts. I n the early 1500s, an unknown wealthy patron is said to have ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — February is Black History Month: a time to celebrate Black Americans’ past, present and future. The ...

The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...