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 ...

Whaling and its Colossal Impact” exhibit opens May 24 and continues through Feb. 16, 2026, at Mystic Seaport Museum, inviting ...

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 ...

“Moving panoramas weren’t just popular media, they were 19th century virtual reality.” The panoramas were prevalent at a time when the middle class was just beginning to travel for pleasure, she said.

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 ...

Norway has hunted whales in its own waters for centuries, but key technological advances, such as the exploding harpoon cannon, developed by its whalers in the 19 th century, enabled the expansion of ...

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 ...

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.

Commercial whaling (distinguished from ASW by its participants, purpose, scale, and techniques) began in the 11 th century with the Basque inhabitants of the French and Spanish coastlines of the Bay ...

The Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage ‘Round The World is a 1,275 feet long panorama painting that was painted in the 1840s. The painting depicts the voyage of a typical mid-19th century New ...