Millions of people were abducted from West Africa and forcibly trafficked to the Americas over the 400 years of the ...

Tara Roberts, the first Black woman to ever grace the cover of the National Geographic magazine, is tracking slave ships.

Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less familiar stories of the events from 250 years ...

The SS United States, long celebrated as America's flagship, will soon be transformed into the world's largest artificial ...

What Romeo and Juliet did next is showcased in National Geographic ’s latest underwater adventure, Titanic: The Digital Resurrection. The scientific wizardry is the work of Magellan of Guernsey in the ...

The RMS Carpathia came to the rescue of stranded Titanic passengers after the shipwreck and sinking, saving over 700 ...

While flying across the Atlantic Ocean just takes a matter of hours, a cargo ship moving from one end to the other can take a ...

From Mexico to Mozambique, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Tara Roberts takes Lale through her aquatic adventures.

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...

The term “transatlantic slave trade” has long been established as the predominant descriptor of the forced movement and ...

In 2011, builders in the Rio de Janeiro docklands uncovered the ruins of the Cais do Valongo, a wharf where, between 1780 and ...