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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If the image we have in our heads of what an ‘explorer’ looks like is male, that’s partly because history has focused too heavily on the achievements of men. But there have been plenty of pioneering ...

Mark Dion, "Provisions & Equipment-Clark Expedition" (2012) (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless indicated) Recalling the age of the gentleman explorer in a place that still guards its ...

For ancient seafarers, the ocean was a place of mists and uncertain landfalls. They described mysterious islands with godlike people, exotic creatures, and lost civilizations. Some islands magically ...