Skilled explorer or overreaching dilettante? Crusading abolitionist or violent murderer? General with the soul of a country on his mind? Or self-centered opportunist only interested in tapping the ...

There are explorers who plumb great depths: Bob Ballard, Jacques Cousteau, or even James Cameron. Then there are adventurers ...

In the 19th century, biology, physics, chemistry, archaeology, geology, geography, and paleontology took off like a rocket, as did social fields like psychology and anthropology. Unfortunately, many ...

LEWIS COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — On Oct. 11, 1809, two gunshots shattered the still of night. It would be the end of one of this nation’s great explorers and the beginning of a mystery still unsolved ...

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION More than a millennium ago, legendary Norse Viking Leif Erikson forever changed the course ...