The canonized and vilified Capt. James Cook is ready for a reassessment “The Death of Captain James Cook,” an engraving based on drawings by D. P. Dodd and other witnesses, engraved by Thomas ...

HMS Endeavour, famously captained by James Cook during his Pacific voyage, identified off the coast of Rhode Island, solving ...

Capt. James Cook’s famous lost ship, the HMS Endeavour, has been rediscovered off Rhode Island, closing the book on a maritime mystery that has endured for 250 years.

For centuries, a ship that helped change history lay forgotten beneath the waters of Rhode Island. Now, the mystery ...

Capt. James Cook’s voyages in the South Pacific in the late 1700s exemplify the law of unintended consequences. He set out to find a westward ocean passage from Europe to Asia but instead, ...

The remains of the historic HMS Endeavour have been definitively located at a site near Newport, Rhode Island. The ship was the first European vessel to reach Australia's east coast.

The answer to a centuries-old nautical mystery is sitting at the bottom of the waters off the Rhode Island coast, scientists ...

In Hampton Sides' telling, this explorer's final mission, ending with his death on the shores of Hawaii's Big Island, has room for both condemnation and celebration.

The purpose of Cook’s final trip — to find a sea passage through North America that would link England to the riches of Asia — was considered critical to English ambitions for empire, and on ...