With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

Anders Brenna, 38, of Oslo will set out early this spring to follow the 1905 route of two of Roald Amundsen's men up the east ...

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and the Inside Passage of the Pacific Northwest. FRCs can launch and recover cutter boats from astern or via side davits and they have improved seakeeping and habitability, the USCG said.

And then there was Abby Fisher, who was born into slavery and later worked as a cook in Alabama and California before becoming an entrepreneur, a cookbook author and an authority on Southern cuisine.

In the west of Britain, there's one of the largest Roman buildings ever discovered in Britain, an Iron Age chariot is saved, and evidence is found of the transatlantic slave trade in Devon.

Aside from the base, Greenland is on strategic sea lanes like the Northwest Passage and the Greenland-Iceland-UK gap, and is beneath Arctic flight paths. It is on the shortest route from North ...

The original passage of the 14th Amendment gave former slaves leaving the Confederacy during the Civil War citizenship status, otherwise leaving them without a nation or state to belong to.

Two vulnerable girls were treated as ‘sex slaves’ by a group of Asian men in Rochdale, a trial has heard. Eight men deny sexual offences allegedly committed against the two girls, who were ...

ANKARA, Turkey — A fire raged through a 12-story hotel at a popular ski resort in northwestern Turkey early Tuesday during a school holiday, killing at least 66 people — at least two of them when they ...