Stepping off the ferry and onto the peaceful shores of Nantucket, it’s easy to feel like you’ve traveled back in time. That’s probably because the tiny island—a designated National ...

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... So went a popular toast when Nantucket, Massachusetts, was still the center of the whaling ...

The Nantucket African Meeting House turns 200 on January 4, the house is the only Black meeting place that traces back to the ...