Research has revealed that the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSPC), once the largest British shipping company during the height of the empire, continued to use enslaved labor after the abolition ...

First, these essays embody a diligent critique of modernity's anthropocentrism that tends to elevate humans above all other ...

On Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine exploded in Havana harbor, killing 260 crewmen and leading to a U.S. declaration ...

Camogli, a picturesque coastal town on the Ligurian Riviera in Italy, has a rich maritime history dating back to ancient ...

Jefferson’s sentiments reflected the prevailing mood of a sizable majority of the country at the dawn of the 19th century: A ...

One common condition required the enslaved person to live with their master until the master's death—meaning they only truly ...

It was during a Tory rally on July 20, 1957, organized to commemorate 25 years of public service by Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd, ...

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A ship is loaded with containers at Balboa ... named after China’s Yangtze River — thrived in Hong Kong’s property market ...

Work on the complete restoration of the British-era anaicut, a masonry check dam built in 1858, began on Friday. The dam is built across the Palar River between Thirumalaicheri and Pudupadi ...

Their doc follows two Kenyan women as they try to transform a colonial era derelict library in downtown ... a historical institution privately built by British settlers and currently owned by ...