These businessmen successfully navigated the grey zones of contraband, clandestine trade and smuggling from Youghal to Havana ...

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The Fitzhugh name is a part of the city, a ghost on the map that has long outlasted the family who put it there.

Irish involvement in Spain's colonial empire is a largely overlooked chapter of history, but figures like George (or 'Jorge’) Ryan (1748-1805) highlight just how interconnected these worlds became.

The English monarchy and aristocracy placed a premium on the Floridas, given their strategic role in protecting the British ...

It’s long past time Americans face the truth about the Founding Fathers. A critique that places events being celebrated on ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

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The embroidered work, depicting the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, will go on display in London for the first time, on loan from France.

A 1699 letter from an enslaved boy portrayed in a 17th-century painting sheds light on Black identity and agency in early modern England.

DUBROVNIK, Croatia (AP) — A sunken 18th-century boat has been discovered by chance near the majestic stone walls of Croatia's medieval city of Dubrovnik.

S OME 120 years on, few remember the outrage provoked by the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to Theodore Roosevelt, the ...