Atlantic World History: Getting Started

Details from “The Western Ocean,” a map published in The English Pilot, the Fifth Book, 1720

Image at the Smithsonian Institution online exhibition On the Water, Living in the Atlantic World section

(Image provided to Smithsonian Instutition courtesy of the Mariners’ Museum)

Multi-episode PBS documentary. Click here for companion PBS website.

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