Finding herself in charge of her sick husband’s clipper, a self-taught working-class teenager overcame storms, icebergs and a disloyal first mate to get her ship to safety ...

I have often wondered what it felt like for my ninth great-grandfather, Johannes (Hans) Christoffel Emich, to stand on the ...

The word mutiny comes from Latin, moving through Old French, ultimately stemming from Latin movere ("to move"), with roots in ...