Whaling brought together an improbable cast ... But their legacies, largely overlooked in New England history, go far beyond the money they brought home. A revered Quaker, Paul Cuffe founded ...

Researchers are pouring over old whaling-ship logs at the Providence Public Library to see if the records can help us ...

On The Point, we talk with Betsy Tyler about her book A Thousand Leagues of Blue- the true story of a Nantucket whaling ...

The New Bedford Whaling Museum, which sees more than 80,000 visitors a year, is planning to expand its campus with a new ...

and the oldest wooden commercial whaling vessel still afloat. Ship logbooks of its many whale hunting voyages, along with hundreds of others from New England, may provide a treasure island for ...

in all New England.” New Bedford, near where Melville embarked on his inspirational whaling voyage on Jan. 3, 1841, has never forgotten. The New Bedford Whaling Museum hosts a 25-hour “read-a ...

“Covering the period 1790 to 1910 with most of the data from the 1840s to sixties, which was the heyday of New England whaling. We can compare that to modern-day observations that we get from ...

"An essential destination and an economic driver for the region, the museum is the largest cultural organization south of Boston and an anchor of New England's SouthCoast." The Whaling Museum ...