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In 1909 African American Matthew Henson trekked with explorer Robert Peary to what they claimed was the North Pole. Who got there first?

A black sharecropper accompanied Robert Peary to the North Pole in 1909.

Confession Number One: I have a bit of a calendar fetish — love wall calendars, but particularly adore those page-a-day calendars. One of my 2023 calendars is called “Outdoor Planet.”...

Subscribe here, or by clicking subscribe above! On most days of the year in the early 1900s, Battle Harbour, on Labrador’s rugged coast, is pretty quiet. The busiest this cod-fishing station gets is when a big catch of fish comes in, and the air buzzes with excitement and activity as the haul is brought ashore. But in September 1909, a buzz of a different kind fills the salty air. The tiny village, population 300, finds itself at the center of a media frenzy it hasn't seen before—or since. Against a backdrop of fishing boats bobbing expectantly in the harbor, dozens of reporters—wearing...

Subscribe here, or by clicking subscribe above! It’s April 6, 1909, and Robert E. Peary and his assistant Matthew Henson are settling in at yet another camp during their third attempt to reach the North Pole. It’s something they’ve done countless times during the course of their journeys together, but on this otherwise unremarkable stretch of ice, their once-elusive goal is now within reach.   As they and the Inughuit guides unpack their supplies, tend to the dogs, and begin food preparations, Peary unfurls an American flag that his wife Josephine had sewn for him years earlier. He fa...