The John Schuette, launched May 3, 1875, was named after a Manitowoc businessman who was at the time a state senator.

We briefly had the Atlantic Schooners in 1984 in Dartmouth, N.S., a team with owners, a coach, and a general manager … but no stadium. The bid went down with all hands a little over a year after ...

The schooner yacht America was a child star and ... America bolted across the Atlantic—New York to La Havre—in just 19 days (a passenger-­carrying sailing ship of the era might complete ...

We briefly had the Atlantic Schooners in 1984 in Dartmouth, N.S., a team with owners, a coach, and a general manager … but no stadium. The bid went down with all hands a little over a year after ...

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A rest stop for highly migratory species, Gorringe Ridge is particularly rich in biodiversity. An expedition to survey the ...

As part of the great migration of African Americans from the South to northern cities, some 200,000 African Americans moved ...

In line of ordinary duty, eight Royal Canadian Mounted Policemen and an 80-ton auxiliary schooner made the first west-to-east water voyage through America’s cold, difficult, twisting Northwest ...

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse on North Carolina’s Outer Banks reportedly has a ghost cat that vanishes when people try to touch it ...

From agriculture to racial relations and politics, the Sea Islands Hurricane of 1893 had far-reaching impacts.

Although the John Schuette mostly sailed the Great Lakes, the schooner made six trips across the Atlantic, mostly to England, from 1876 to 1879. The Second Welland Canal, completed in 1845 with ...