Local History columnist Ross Eric Gibson writes about the journey of Sir Francis Drake.

A multidisciplinary team of eleven researchers has reconstructed the sinking of an Italian ship that lay barely eight metres deep under the mud of the Bay of Cadiz. The ship is the San Giorgio e ...

That’s when he found what he called a “Fair and Good Bay” in which to make repairs. For years, Californians have claimed he landed on their shores. But a scholar at Portland State University says ...