“This is the gift of the humanities,” Edward Meadors, professor of Biblical studies, said. “Somehow we can get through to people by reading a book or watching a movie or engaging in theater to put ...

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

At its peak, in the 1850s, the American whaling industry alone employed 50,000 to 70,000 workers who worked on an estimated 700 to 800 ships ... Slavery in the American colonies began in 1619 ...

When I saw the rings, I thought, it’s like a slave-ship hold.” At first ... Africans were sold to colonists at Jamestown in 1619—slaves had fled their masters. But until British Canada ...

Captured Africans were being shipped to coastal Virginia as early as 1619; by 1710 ... actual instruments—one banjo-like device from a slave ship still survives in a Dutch museum.

In 1607, 104 English settlers picked the worst possible spot to build America’s first permanent colony. The 104 original ...

While loading up three ships bound for the New World, the English imagined the incredible profits from the resources across ...

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