Excerpted from The Slave Ship by Marcus Rediker. Published by Viking Penguin. This article supplements Episode 2 of The History of American Slavery, our inaugural Slate Academy. Please join Slate ...

One such experience I’ve had was traveling through the South Atlantic Ocean on an expedition ship for 18 days. While there are hotels and there are cruise ships, an expedition ship puts those ...

When researchers set out to create a full-size reconstruction of a pharaonic sailing vessel, as seen in NOVA's "Building Pharaoh's Ship," they had to rediscover some of the basics of New Kingdom ...

In the mid-1930s, the Japanese Navy commissioned a ship called Yamato intended to be the greatest battleship in the world—with more powerful guns, advanced optics, and impenetrable armor.