Simon Park, who teaches Portuguese history and literature at Oxford University, aims to recast the early period of European exploration as a story of disasters rather than successes. His target is ...

This was how the explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano described the outcome ... he soon departed again for Europe. The enduring ...

Thus, when European explorers came to Alaska in the eighteenth century, they were visiting a land that had been explored, inhabited and developed for millennia. In a way, Alaska existed in the ...

Seymour escaped with the roughly 40-pound cannon, which she said was probably built in the early 1500s and was ... one of the ...