Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on Modern Affairs continues with a video on the Arctic Race, as we ...

This documentary examines the mysterious 1845 case of a British ship that went missing while trying to navigate passage through Northern Canada to the Pacific Ocean. 160 years ago, the Franklin ...

“The history of the many attempts to reach the North Pole,” Norwegian author and adventurer Erling Kagge writes, “is also the history of how illusions of a frozen wasteland can lure people to their ...

Origins : introduction and environmental overview -- Encounters : prehistory and early history to 1500 CE -- Incursions : 1500 to 1800 -- Crusades : 1800 to 1914 -- Subjugations : 1914 to 1945 -- ...