While the Trump administration tries to downplay matters of race and racism in US history, the minister of a Providence ...

At a moment when Harvard is battling the Trump administration, a scholar who helped discover the charter said it was an ...

Followed by our monarchy, the papacy is the West’s oldest institution. The enormous interest in the first Anglosphere pope in ...

George Heriot (1563–1624) was an Edinburgh goldsmith who became jeweller to King James VI (James 1 of England) and his wife, Queen Anne. So lucrative was his business that he acquired the name ...

Tarleton returned to England, where he represented Liverpool in the House of Commons. Notably, he defended the slave trade, ...

Their daughter Angelina Margaret Hoare is in the ODNB as 'missionary. David Killingray, 'Kent and the abolition of the slave trade: a county study, 1760s-1807' pp. 112-3: sourced to marriage ...

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 ...

Two British academics discovered that a “copy” of the medieval text, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is ...

However, a 2015 discovery of distinctive yellow bricks by U.S. archaeologists from East Carolina University sparked new questions, leading to the revelation that these are the remains of Danish ...

The two vessels had been trafficking hundreds of enslaved Africans when a navigational error led them astray. They sank off ...

Given the extent to which Western Christian traditions, both Roman Catholic and Protestant, have built their theological ...

President Donald Trump has finally gotten his first trade deal done. Well, not quite a “deal,” per se. More like a concept of a plan: a framework for negotiations between the United States and ...