Every June, National Caribbean American Heritage Month recognizes and celebrates the significant contributions of Caribbean people to the United States, and it shares in the community's rich history ...

Myth 1. Caribbean history started with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492 -- Myth 2. The Arawaks and Caribs were the two major groups in the precolonial Caribbean -- Myth 3. Columbus met ...

The Caribbean islands of Barbuda, Dominica, St. John, St. Croix and Puerto Rico are recovering from the devastation of hurricanes Maria and Irma. The Caribbean was once a crossroads of trade and ...

"A Concise History of the Caribbean presents a general history of the Caribbean islands from the beginning of human settlement about seven thousand years ago to the present. It narrates processes of ...

Climate-related disasters are destroying precious records. At next week’s Commonwealth summit, King Charles can show his support for their protection Quacou, Hankey, Cuffee, Fatima, Fanny Ibo and ...

Humans are thought to have first settled in the Caribbean islands about 6,000 years ago during the Archaic Age, and used stone tools. Around 3,000 to 4,000 years later, clay pottery developed during ...

The Caribbean stands at the crossroads of world history, yet most people only see it as a vacation destination with beaches and rum cocktails. This cluster of islands witnessed some of humanity’s most ...

Researching family history can be quite challenging for African-Caribbean people because the dispossession caused by the slave trade means that ancestral links have been lost or buried. Guy Grannum ...

Like everyone else in the world, people on the twin-island Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago learned on Aug. 11 that Trinidad-born Sir Vidia Naipaul – better known as V.S. Naipaul – had died.

If you are researching ancestors from Africa or the Caribbean there are some specialised routes to the past that you might like to follow . Researching your family history if you're of African ...