which was the heyday of the New England whaling era. We can compare that to modern day observations that we get from satellites or metrological stations. It helps us put recent trends into a long ...

Why whaling mattered Whaling was the first global industry in the colonies that eventually became the U.S. Whaling hubs like the Massachusetts towns of Nantucket and New Bedford and the island of ...

Prominent Nantucket whaling merchant Joseph Rotch resettles to New Bedford, anticipating the city's future importance to the whaling industry. During the Revolutionary War, whaleships are targeted ...

Our new research uncovers what we believe ... of slavery in the U.S. – the rise of the whaling industry. Starting around 1650, whaling expanded along the Northeast coast of the British American ...