A mysterious daguerreotype of a woman and a pair of jeans possibly made by Levi Strauss himself are among nearly 1,000 Gold Rush-era treasures recovered from the fabled “Ship of Gold” now on display ...

Book publishing and magazines expanded at no less prodigious rates: The 1850s saw the publication of Atlantic founding contributor Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which became a best seller ...

A pair of men’s jeans recovered from the wreckage of a 19th-century steamer ship fetched an eye-popping $95,000 at auction last week. Per the auction house description, it’s the earliest known pair of ...

In the wake of the Panic of 1857, “that nest of gamblers the Brokers’ Board” (socalled by a Manhattan newspaper seeking to fix responsibility for the financial chaos) met one day to elect a new ...

A ship carrying more than $1.5 million in gold sank off the North Carolina coast 167 years ago. The SS Central America also had 500 people on board when it went down Sept. 12, 1857. Despite the deadly ...

CHARLESTON, S.C., April 30 (Reuters) - A deep-ocean exploration company is seeking to recover a lucrative haul of gold aboard the shipwreck of the SS Central America, nearly 160 years after it sank ...