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

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

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

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

A rare American-built gunboat from the Revolutionary War, unearthed at Ground Zero, is now on display at the New York State Museum in Albany.

An 18th-century war power resurfaces in cyber policy talks An old-world legal concept has drawn interest as a way to give private firms more leeway to fight state-backed hackers.

Portrait of an 18th-century It girl Joshua Reynolds’ beloved painting contains the hidden story of my socialite ancestor, whose life spanned England, France and America.

While excavating an 18th Century British fort recently discovered in St. Augustine's Lincolnville, archaeologists say they unearthed a moat.

The Supreme Court on Saturday blocked, for now, the deportations of any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an 18th century wartime law.