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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Andrew Irvine, back left, stands beside George Mallory and other members of the British Mount Everest expedition in 1924. Capt. J.B. Noel / Royal Geographical Society via Getty Images In 1924, British ...

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 ...