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 ...

In the 19th century, biology, physics, chemistry, archaeology, geology, geography, and paleontology took off like a rocket, as did social fields like psychology and anthropology. Unfortunately, many ...

Say what you will about the British Empire in the early 1800s — and there’s lots to say about colonialism and the theft of important artifacts from other cultures — that rain-soaked collection of ...

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 ...

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 ...