Even though the Illinois no longer exists, a small fragment of it remains to remind us of what might have been. America’s Iowa-class battleships were engineered in the late 1930s to counter the ...

The slave ship Brooks was first drawn and published in an abolitionist broadside by William Elford and the Plymouth chapter of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade in ...

August Coleman named “Battleship Kate,” a major work of folk art, for a sex worker and swindler with head-to-toe tattoos. This tattooed figure at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts stands two feet ...