Robert Smalls published a newspaper, established a transportation company and served five terms in the United States Congress ...

Retropolis The Gulf of Mexico’s long history of colonization and varying names. Long before Trump expressed interest in a name change, conquerors have battled to claim the wealth of its rich waters.

Smalls died a free man in the same Beaufort, South Carolina, property where he had been born a slave. By the time of his death in 1915, however, Smalls had become a U.S. Representative, a war hero ...

The Gulf of Mexico has appeared on maps for centuries, but geographic name changes are common throughout history. This name change has an immediate impact on U.S. federal agencies that map or ...

President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico on Friday morning said her government had sued Google over the company’s decision to label the Gulf of Mexico as “Gulf of America” — a spat going back ...

Robert Smalls made a daring sea escape during the Civil War as a slave and went on to serve five terms in Congress as a Representative from South Carolina.

Vice President Kamala Harris: "Deep sense of outrage" over end of Roe v. Wade 02:07. A doctor plans to open a floating health clinic in the Gulf of Mexico where women can get surgical abortions.

Nowhere is that research more critical than in the Gulf of Mexico, which has been understudied for years, according to Robert Twilley, an oceanography professor and vice president of research and ...

Silent and shadowy, two hulks lie under the Gulf of Mexico’s warm waters, unmoved since their deadly encounter 72 years ago during World War II.

The gulf’s current name dates to the mid-sixteenth century, coined by Spanish cartographers mapping the waters of New Spain, then a colony that encompassed much of present-day Mexico and parts ...

On Monday, Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum outlined a letter she received from Google regarding the controversy over renaming the Gulf of Mexico. Last week, the tech company updated Google ...

Colonizers have always coveted the Gulf of Mexico: its trade winds, ports, fish and shellfish, its deep pockets of oil and gas far beneath a basin floor of crashed, tectonic plates. “This superb ...