"It is the fairest land that eyes have beheld," wrote Christopher Columbus when he discovered the Caribbean island of Jamaica in 1494. This winter 100,000 sun-seeking North American ...

Jim was a gifted player with great hand-eye coordination, and a hard-hitting middle-order batsman who terrorised bowlers ...

In 1917, Denmark sold the United States the “Danish West Indies”—today, Saint Thomas, Saint John, and Saint Croix—for $25 million. ... The Long Negotiation for the U.S. Virgin Islands.

For nearly two centuries, the Danish West Indies were entangled in the brutal Atlantic Slave Trade, which saw the forced ...