The Atlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration of people in history. A view into the world of the slave ships with accompanying photos of artifacts and documents are included in this exhibit.

The Smithsonian's maritime collections contain many objects relating to the steamship Leviathan, the largest American passenger ship of the 1920s and 1930s. View these mementos originally preserved by passengers and crew to remember...

Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman elected to both houses of Congress. She was the first woman to enter the Senate without being appointed to the position. During World War II, she was the only civilian woman to go to sea in a Navy...

Illustrated accounts of the destruction and loss of two ships sailing to America across the Atlantic illuminate the dangers of nineteenth-century travel and the modes of rescue available at the time. With a range of archival material,...

2013 marks the 406th anniversary of the founding of the Jamestown colonial settlement. Learn about how Jamestown Day is now celebrated in Virginia, including the sailing of a recreated ship, archaelogical digs and a variety of cultural...

This collection at the University of California-Berkeley can now be accessed online through the Online Archive of California. It provides a vast collection of historically significant primary source images of early California and the...

This multi-media rich site explores the voyage made by James Cook on the Endeavour in 1768. This voyage, marked as one of the most influential in history, made major nautical, geographical, natural history, and medical discoveries along...

Explore the history of logarithms and sailing by watching this animated video. [4:19]

This site describes the history of immigration from India and the making of a television documentary on this topic. It follows the life of an immigrant named Bagga Singh, who arrived in 1913, and his descendants. It also describes the...

In North Carolina, the concept of travel by steamboat was first introduced in 1815, when Archibald D. Murphey chaired a legislative committee on inland navigation. The first steamboat entered the state in 1818 when the New Bern Steamboat...

Beginning with their most important tool of warfare, their ships, this author discusses what is currently known about Viking weapons and tactics. It is easy to see why they were so successful in war. Archived.

Encyclopeida entry takes viewers inside a pirate ship and teaches us about all of the components from the deck to the Jolly Roger flag.

This exhibit shows nine painted photos of Texas Navy Ships displayed at the San Jacinto Museum of History.

n 1912, the Titanic was glorified as the largest and most luxurious passenger ship in history. See it before and after its tragic sinking in the photo gallery.

The most famous Anglo-Saxon treasures in the Museum come from the Sutton Hoo burial site in Suffolk. Here mysterious grassy mounds covered a number of ancient graves. In one particular grave, belonging to an important Anglo-Saxon...

From the man who led the evacuation of USS Arizona to the fighter pilot who took to the skies in his pajamas, learn the stories of eight of the many servicemen who distinguished themselves on one of the darkest days in American military...

This Rosala Viking Centre website offers an excellent, but brief, history and mythology of the Vikings. The site includes photos, and images that can be clicked to enlarge them.

This BBC history game, Viking Quest, takes you back to AD 793. Flash plugin required.As you make choices, you learn about the culture of the Vikings, as well as about the dangers and rewards of being a Viking raider. (Flash required.)...

A brief biography of the second Secretary of the Navy during the Jefferson administration. He later became Secretary of State from in 1809. A destroyer vessel with his name was launched in 1919 and in use until 1931.

When the United States entered World War II after the 1941 attacks on Pearl Harbor, men shipped overseas by the millions to serve in the war. This left many of the civilian and military jobs on the home front unfilled -- and that's when...

In July 1780 France's Louis XVI had sent to America an expeditionary force of 6,000 men under the Comte Jean de Rochambeau. In addition, the French fleet harassed British shipping and prevented reinforcement and resupply of British...

Discover what life was like for a sailor during the Age of Exploration.

This resource presents a brief discussion of U.S. neutrality early in World War I and of the events which brought the country closer to war.

The Hanover College History offers several excellent images of Romantic Art. The site provides the year each one was created.