The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History has become a caricature display of far-left identity politics.

Today, its multisource dataset, currently housed at Rice University, features information on more than 30,000 slaving vessels ...

Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to remember and the challenges of passing ...

When Pope John Paul II visited the island in 1992, he apologized on behalf of Europe and denounced the clerics who had blessed the slave ships, Coly remembers. Preserving the memory of Gorée ...

thousands of African slaves on slave ships drowned when the ships they were on sank (“Written in the Waters: A Memoir of History, Home, and Belonging,” 2025). The slaves drowned because they ...

Contrary to what many believe, he explained, rebellions were a relatively common occurrence on slave ships; the dots represented those uprisings. The caption beneath the map stated that captured ...

Fresh advances in 3D scanning technology are making it possible to explore some of the hardest-to-reach and most fragile sites on Earth. This rendering of the Titanic is based on 715,000 photos ...

This is because many men and officers of the Royal Navy were introduced to service at sea on one of the many slave ships that ferried African captives across the sea into slavery. Without that ...

Adams undertook to defend before the Supreme Court the enslaved Africans who had taken over the Spanish slave ship Amistad in a bloody effort to seize their freedom. He prevailed. Some say that ...