The depiction of an enslaved Black child known as “Jersey” by celebrated 18th-century portrait painter Joshua Reynolds has ...

Spanish archaeologists from the University of Cádiz uncover a 2,400-year-old ship graveyard in the Bay of Gibraltar, ...

For centuries, ships carrying merchants, soldiers and explorers passed through the narrow waters linking the Atlantic Ocean ...

Unmasking 'Jersey': Archival records identified the boy in Reynolds’ portrait as George Walker, an enslaved youth who served with Paul Henry Ourry. Life in the Navy: Walker sailed on three ships with ...

An oil painting by Joshua Reynolds features a named naval officer and a Black child whose life story was unknown until ...

Peter Bradley, a painter, art dealer and fixture of the 1960s and ’70s Manhattan art scene, brought a loftlike aesthetic to ...

In latest stage of £42m restoration project, 30-strong team removed mast from Nelson’s Battle of Trafalgar flagship ...

A secret ironworks in Sterling Forest produced the Great Chain that protected the Hudson. It wasn’t fully uncovered until the ...

Risky jobs? Man, it's not 18th century anymore. Those floating titans are like the ultimate SUV, anything else is going to be flattened including small countries. Seriously, I would agree the job has ...

In 1775, George Washington sent Henry Knox, a Boston bookseller, to fetch 60 tons of artillery. We followed Knox’s route to ...

Spanning centuries, more than 100 historic shipwrecks have been uncovered on the seafloor of the Bay of Gibraltar by ...

Despite the Pelican State’s nearly 400 miles of coastline, some of the most hidden waterfront destinations in Louisiana are ...