Eleonor "Gay" Courter and her husband have been accused of helping to sell the bullion for a French diver who stole it decades ago, but have denied knowledge of any wrongdoing.

The American researchers, from the Center for Historic Shipwreck Preservation, have investigated the wreck for 16 years and now think it's the remains of Nossa Senhora do Cabo, a Portuguese ship ...

How have our shared visions of American ideals influenced the meaning of patriotism? How has this definition evolved over ...

Generations of Germans believe Frederick the Great brought the beloved potato to Germany. The legend is this: King Frederick ...

An 80-year-old US novelist and her husband are among several people facing a possible trial in France over the illegal sale ...

Between 1632 and 1760, records show that 734 Indigenous children were enslaved in France's North American colony, historian ...

Many Germans believe Frederick the Great brought potatoes to the country. It’s not true - The potato is part of the German ...

The legend is this: King Frederick II of Prussia wanted his subjects to eat potatoes, introduced to Europe in the 16th ...

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

About a million people, nearly all of them Catholic, died of starvation or disease, and another 2 million emigrated. Ireland’s population was reduced by a third.