American naval ships use USS before the ship's name, but with British ships it's HMS. There's a reason, and a lot of history, behind the designation.

The 19th century port is a hugely popular draw for tourists and locals, and also featured in the out series Outlander with a ...

A house in Groton with ties to a 19th century sea captain, Captain Silas Beebe, has hit the market for $3.95 million.

A historian tries to tie two classical liberal economists to the racialist right, and scrambles their words in the process.

The Maillets began buying daguerreotypes in the 1960s and their 200-strong collection spans the full history and evolution of ...

The already strained relationship between Britain and the fledgling U.S. hit a boiling point in the early 19th century. Britain, embroiled in the Napoleonic Wars with France, put a blockade on ...

The musty store, called Where the Monkey Hits, is a surprising fashion hotspot in modern-day Chile given its tradition, ...

There was no reason why the U.S. Marshal should spend the night on board the cramped, smelly little freight schooner he was ...

It was one of Joseph Sorger's last wishes to have his estate sold at auction at Freeman's, a venue at which he had procured much of his collection.

a 157-foot-long topsail schooner built to the lines of an 1812-era Baltimore clipper. The Liberty Clipper, a 125-foot-long replica of a mid-19th century Baltimore clipper that operates in Boston ...

The US has had a military presence in Greenland since World War II. But an abandoned underground military site poses a major environmental threat as the planet warms. Researchers found thousands ...