Locals Thought These Shipwrecks Had Belonged to Pirates. They Turned Out to Be 300-Year-Old Danish Slave Ships
The two vessels had been trafficking hundreds of enslaved Africans when a navigational error led them astray. They sank off the coast of Costa Rica in the 18th century
Mexico City Marks 500th Anniversary of the Fall of Tenochtitlán
The events highlight the complex legacy of 300 years of Spanish rule
Why the Peace Corps’ Mission Is Needed Now More Than Ever
On its 60th anniversary, a moment of reckoning arrives for the nation’s globe-trotting volunteers
Meet the Scientist Studying How Cell Phones Change Societies
“Smartphones embody globalization,” says the Smithsonian cultural anthropologist Josh Bell
How Globalization Changed the Way We Fight Disease
A new exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History explores the deadly past of global epidemics