Smith assembled a team of scientists and historians to determine the effect that 19th century American offshore whaling had on whales. In 2010, the team finished up a 10-year project of assembling ...

Archaeologists had located the underwater wreck of a 19th-century whaling vessel and solved a Nantucket mystery. Kelly Gleason Keogh was wrapping up a monthlong expedition in the remote Hawaiian ...

Historians have long debated whether the end of slavery in the United States was primarily driven by moral campaigns or economic changes. But what if both perspectives are looking at only part of the ...

Many critics were impressed with the detailed account of whaling voyages ... Despite being considered among the best poems of the 19th century, Battle-Pieces sold a meager 486 copies.

The Gulf was a sure place to find sperm whales, which were valuable because of the sheer quantity and quality of their oil, prior to the nation’s whaling industry collapse in the 19th century. “In the ...

It’s taller than the Eiffel Tower is high and longer than the Empire State Building is tall—and it’s turning heads in Winona.

The name comes from Herman Melville's Moby Dick, a classic American novel about the 19th century whaling industry. The seafaring name seems appropriate for a store that imports the world's finest ...

Others built houses of worship. The whaling industry that produced oil to illuminate 19th-century lamps also added fuel to the fire of the antislavery movement. The city motto of New Bedford ...