On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad — Spanish for “Friendship” ...

An 11,000-year-old Indigenous settlement found in Saskatchewan reshapes the understanding of North American civilizations.

Alfred Downing created accurate sketches of the banks and riverbed of the Columbia River. In 1880, he created a reasonably accurate outline sketch of the Waterville Plateau. He ...

Meaning from that point on the formerly enslaved people of Texas were finally free leading to the idea of what many now call ...

WASHINGTON DC: In line with a recent executive order by President Donald Trump, Google Maps will soon update the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America” for users in the United States.

It wasn't only Antonia de la Ascensión who made this strange error. Juan de Iturbe, who explored parts of California in 1615, ...

Were you told that gold mining in southern Africa started after 1852? Or that the export of iron, steel, copper and gold ...

For travelers who prefer the rich U.S. history in Pennsylvania's biggest cities, this legendary venue is a great addition to ...

“One of the subjects of discussion will be a repatriation program with Costa Rica to help with not only those that are coming up from South America but those that are coming from throughout the ...

Google Maps earlier this week stirred controversy. The tech giant announced that it had agreed to accept the Trump administration's directive to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the ‘Gulf of America.’ The ...

Google has said it will restore the name Mount McKinley to North America's highest peak and rename the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" on its Maps app ... is one of South Africa’s ...

A map has revealed the final moments of the doomed American Airlines flight before it tragically crashed into the Potomac River in Washington DC, following a mid-air collision with a Black Hawk ...