Sam Keeley as Ramsdell and Chris Hemsworth as Owen Chase in Warner Bros. Pictures' 'In the Heart of the Sea' (2015). Though some moments were dramatized, Howard's film remained faithful to the ...

The 2015 movie In the Heart of the Sea, starring Tom Holland and Chris Hemsworth, is now streaming on Netflix, leading many to wonder why several changes were made to the true story behind In the ...

As a minister/counselor for half a century, I have come to believe that we live in a world saturated with angry people.

First ed. published in 1821 under title: Narrative of the most extraordinary and distressing shipwreck of the whale-ship Essex, of Nantucket.

Given our local history, it's not hard to imagine one of the old whaling ships driving hard through the South Pacific. Since we tend to think of sailing as a summertime thing, maybe it would be a good ...

Contrary to the motto on its municipal seal, New Bedford was no longer the city that lit the world by the 1920s. America’s lamps mostly ran on electricity and kerosene. Whale byproducts still had some ...

Moussa Kone, illustrator and Harpune Verlag, publisher. "Etymology," 2012. (Courtesy Moussa Kone and Harpune Verlag. Photo by Kathy Tarantola/Peabody Essex Museum) Happy birthday, Herman Melville! On ...

In the Heart of the Sea isn’t just an epic tale of man versus nature, it’s also a dramatic recounting of a real attack. Though some moments were dramatized, Howard's film remained faithful to the ...