These are the events and people that shaped the history of travel, from early pilgrimages and the Age of Discovery, to the ...

On this day in aviation history, January 22, 1926, an aircraft called Plus Ultra set off to become the first aircraft to fly ...

Christopher Columbus' voyage across the Atlantic in 1492 kicked off the Age of Discovery and inaugurated the Spanish ... as this 1582 map of South America shows. The Spanish extracted vast riches from ...

A new research paper from Italy argues that sailors in Genoa — the home town of Christopher Columbus — knew of a land west of Greenland across the Atlantic. A city official reportedly said ...

Within days of President Donald Trump signing an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to "Gulf of America," a website of the same moniker has begun selling globes and maps bearing the new ...

The U.S. Coast Guard started using the term “Gulf of America” to refer to the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, one day after President Trump signed an executive order setting in motion the process ...

The return of supersonic travel has been remarkably slow for something faster than the speed of sound, but a landmark moment ...

Between 1848 and 1855, California produced an estimated 750,000 pounds of gold. After that the take gradually declined, and ...

HubSpot AI stock broke out to highs. Watch out for earnings from peers, customers. Bank of America has seen relatively strong performance in the past six months, rising more than 10% in that time.

They call it the Freedom Trail. A line that snakes through Boston, a walking tour that takes in all the must-see locations where modern America began. Sure, at just two and a half miles it sounds ...

The discovery‚ facilitated by Native American ... traveling from the U.S. Eastern seaboard as well as places like Latin America, Asia and Europe. This mass influx created a surge in new wealth ...

The fate of the settlers who founded the "Lost Colony of Roanoke" in what is now North Carolina remains unknown.