Explore the remarkable Viking voyages that led Norse explorers to North America around 1000 AD centuries before Columbus set sail. Uncover how Leif Erikson and his crew used advanced seafaring skills ...

The voyage of the HMS Challenger in the 1870s was a sprawling 3-1/2-year expedition to explore the world's oceans. The ...

Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage, sponsored by Spain, mistakenly led him to the Americas instead of Asia. This initiated the Columbian Exchange, a vast transfer of plants, animals, and diseases ...

Messages in a bottle written by two World War I soldiers have been discovered on Australia's coast. The Brown family found ...

A thirteen-year-old boy's perilous journey to escape violence and fear highlights the extraordinary courage and desperation ...

History is a complex web of triumph, tragedy, and change, but it isn’t immune to the threads of misinformation and misconceptions. There are “facts” that are often passed down through generations and ...

The Salem witch trials of the 1690s saw 20 victims executed, 19 by hanging. Far more interesting, horrifying, and awful is ...

Spend enough time along the shores of Lake Superior and it won’t be long before there’s some reminder of what happened “when ...

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The Crying of Lot 49? Not really about crying (auctioneering) but about trying to sell oneself on the idea of an orderly universe. Vineland sent vicious growths around the remains of Reagan’s America.

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