Esteban, York and James Beckwourth charted the American frontier between the 16th and 19th centuries York, the enslaved man who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their history-making expedition, appears ...

English explorer William Scoresby kicked off the 19th century's Arctic craze when he became the new record holder for reaching the northernmost point yet on Earth in 1806. Expeditions in the first ...

J.R. Harris has hiked some of the world’s most remote wildernesses - unsupported and mostly alone - including Patagonia, the Australian outback, and most recently, Tanzania. "A few weeks ago, I ...

BURLINGTON, Iowa (KWQC) - The ‘Moments in History’ of Burlington, Iowa, celebrate the community and what has brought it to what is there today. First called Flint Hills, by the indigenous Sac and Fox ...

More than 530 years after Christopher Columbus led an expedition across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World, many Americans still see the navigator as a symbol of their country’s origins. Others see ...

Trudging through the dark with a dim lantern, a remarkable black man named Stephen Bishop tirelessly explored the world's ...

Throughout history, explorers have pushed the boundaries of the known world, chasing maps into the blank spaces and daring to go where no one else had. Whether they were crossing oceans, scaling ...