Shutterstock Fifty years ago this November, a group of Native American students arrived by boat ... on Alcatraz once held vocational classes for inmates. Library of Congress Though the occupation ...

The 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island, from 1969 to 1971, marked a turning point in American Indian activism. They embarked on a three-masted boat, intent on claiming what they saw as rightfully ...

Scientist Pete Kelsey and his team have 3D-mapped the entire island of Alcatraz, discovering Civil War secrets, prisoner escape routes – and looking at ways to preserve the island for the future.