This website provides information about two early explorers in Tennessee, Hernando de Soto and Daniel Boone.

Profile of Dr. Daniel Carl Solander, a close friend and colleague of Joseph Banks. Solander was an eighteenth-century Swedish botanist and explorer who traveled the world collecting plant specimens for classification.

A chronological timeline of early European exploration and development in Texas spanning from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.

John Rae was one of the last explorers sent out by the Hudson's Bay Company to chart the unknown north. This is a brief account of his accomplishments that included determining the facts about the ill-fated Franklin expedition.

This site gives a detailed account Erasmus Darwin and his accomplishments in science and other areas.

Who was Henry Hudson? What happened to him? This one-page biography from PBS provides learners with these details and more.

Who was Jacques Cartier? What voyages has history recorded? This one-page biography from PBS provides learners with these details and more.

A well known historian tells the story of the early Spanish explorers known as "conquistadors". He discusses their motivation, what effect they had on the native American societies and much more. Archived.

A biography of Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese explorer in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, and a summary of his voyages.

Letters from Cabot to different people in his life that explain his exploration and his discoveries.

Read through the biography of Martin Frobisher to find out his importance in Canadian history.

Features a time line of the events of the Viking voyages to Canada. Identifies different events that occurred during this time period of early Viking exploration.

Native Americans inhabited the New World long before European explorers began establishing settlements on the land. This entry addresses the challenges the natives had to face upon Europe's arrival, trials in relationships, and how...

Information about John Cabot and Sebastian Cabot provided in a question-and-answer format.

The first Europeans to arrive in North America -- at least the first for whom there is solid evidence -- were Norse, traveling west from Greenland, where Erik the Red had founded a settlement around the year 985. In 1001 his son Leif is...

The Mangbetu live in the northeastern corner of Zaire. They are the founders of one of the few centralized political systems in Central Africa. The Mangbetu achieved a very high level of technological and material development, as...

Learn how Spain's introduction of horses dramatically impacted the lives of the Native Indians.

An English translation of Cabeza De Vaca's first-hand account of his journey and quest to claim territory from Florida to Mexico for Spain.

Biographical information about Jean Ribault, the French naval officer and navigator who established colonies in what was to become South Carolina and Florida.