Maritime History
| Cabrillo, Juan Rodriguez - in 1542 he sailed up the coast of what was then "New Spain" and discovered and named San Diego Bay and Santa Barbara. | |
| Captain Morgan's Journal - includes links to online resources for maritime and nautical history, pirate lore, Vikings and a suggested reading list. | |
| Cartier, Jacques (1491-1557) - he went looking for a passage through or around North America to East Asia, as some had done before him, and many would after him. | |
| Columbus' letter to the King and Queen of Spain, 1494 | |
| Columbus's Medinah? - asking the question: was Columbus descended from a Spanish Jew? | |
| Columbus, Christopher - The Columbus Doors explores the national myth and how its perception has changed over time. | |
| Introduction to 1492: An Ongoing Voyage | |
| Antarctic Philately: James Cook - an account of his second voyage to determine whether the unexplored part of the southern hemisphere was an immense mass of water or contained another continent. | |
| British Navigator and Explorer - about his three voyages of discovery for Great Britain. | |
| Captain Cook's Charts - of the North West Coast of America and North East Coast of Asia. | |
| First British Ship on the North West Coast - excerpts for the logs of Captain Cook concerning his experiences on the east coast of North America. | |
| Coronado, Francisco Vasquez de (1510-1554) - he set out in 1540 in search of a golden city, called Cibola, joined by a large expedition of Spanish, Indian allies, and slaves. | |
| Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico - from the Modern History SourceBook. | |
| Texas Explorers - Cortez - correspondence between a student and an educator on the subject of the Spanish conqueror. | |
| Leif Eriksson Greenland-Vinland Year 1000-2000. Introduktion - celebrating the 1000th anniversary of the Viking discovery of North America. | |
| Leif Ericson Biography | |
| HARVEST Project - a maritime history database covering all mechanically powered vessels in the period 1865-1925. | |
| Henry the Navigator - about the man who helped Portugal establish trade with West Africa. | |
| Soto, Hernando de - Native American conquest in the "New World" during the Sixteenth Century is investigated from a fresh view point. | |
| Henry Hudson: an Englishman in Dutch Service - under the flag of the Dutch East India Company he searched in vain for a western passage to the East Indies. | |
| Latitude: The Science of Sailing the World - how the Portuguese invented the science of navigation in the 1400s and how it changed the world. | |
| Nautical History Terms for the Oxford English Dictionary | |
| Shining Sea Foundation - join us and help us build a new American clipper. | |
| Ships of the World - monthly Japanese magazine covering warships, merchant ships and maritime events. Spanish Armada | |
| Defeat of the Spanish Armada - King Phillip II, pledged to conquer the Protestant heretics in England and convert them to the Church of Rome. Written by Steven Goldman. | |
| English Mercurie, The - July 23rd, 1588 - account of Sir Francis Drake's confrontation with the Spanish Armada. | |
| Traditional Navigation in the Western Pacific - the Carolinian art of navigation developed to meet the needs of ocean voyaging for up to several hundred miles among islands of Micronesia. | |
| U.S. Merchant Marine - from Revolutionary War, World War II, and Vietnam. | |
| Naval Institute Press - for the advancement of professional, literary, and scientific knowledge in the maritime services. | |
| United States Naval Institute | |
| World Ship Trust - advances the preservation and display of surviving historic ships that played a significant part in human history. | |