Captain Cook set sail from Plymouth to find an elusive trade route linking Europe to Asia in 1776. He never saw England again ...

The Captain Cook Monument is a 27-foot obelisk that was erected in 1874 to memorialize where Cook died. He was killed in 1779 after a fight broke out between the Hawaiians and Westerners. The monument ...

British explorer Captain James Cook was killed by locals in Hawaii. Marc Fennell unravels what Cook and his crew were said to ...

On October 27, 1728, James Cook was born in a small town in northern England. Apprenticed to a shipowner, he eventually joined the Royal Navy, and is remembered today as Captain Cook. In a series of ...

The wreck of Captain Cook’s HMS Endeavour may have finally been pinpointed, 17,000 kilometers (10,500 miles) from the country with which it’s most famously associated. Researchers in Rhode Island, on ...

On this day 250 years ago, Captain James Cook was about to leave the island of Tahiti in search of a lost continent known as Terra Australis. Cook had been sent to the region by the British admiralty, ...

In the leadup to a press conference held Wednesday in Providence, Rhode Island, news headlines around the world were announcing the possible discovery of the H.M.B. Endeavour, made famous when Captain ...

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, a time dedicated to honoring the histories, cultures, and contributions of Pacific Islander and Asian communities. It is also a moment to ...