When European explorers first began sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, they were searching for new routes to China and the East, but what they found was more than they imagined: the New World. Some of ...

During the violence and instability of 17th-century Europe, monarchies and religions struggled for dominance. Constant conflict drove thousands of refugees to distant lands. Jean Baptiste Tavernier ...

Adm. Richard E. Byrd was once known around the world for his expeditions to Antarctica. His son was determined to preserve his legacy. At the peak of his fame in the 1930s, Adm. Richard E. Byrd was ...

Fifteenth-century China was a maritime powerhouse that explored new lands and opened trade routes. It was also the best-connected political entity in the world, with a presence in Asia, Africa, and ...

BILLINGS, Mont. - In Joe McGeshick's classes, explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark aren't presented as the larger-than-life heroes some of his students at Fort Peck Community College read ...

MADISON (AP) — Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes. The Western Reserve was one of the first ...

Matt Breen Creator/Host, The Explorers Podcast Matt Breen is the publisher and host of the Explorers Podcast, which looks at the lives and discoveries of some of the world's greatest (and not so great ...

Esteban, York and James Beckwourth charted the American frontier between the 16th and 19th centuries History of Now Amanda Bellows - Author, The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions ...