Kat Long

It’s easy to name the state most associated with a president, but can you name his actual birthplace?

What causes slimy meats, whether they’re still safe to eat, and how to tell when they're not.

How well do you remember how history played out at the end of World War II?

In the premiere episode of our podcast 'The Quest for the North Pole,' we learn what made explorers go north in the first place.

In this episode, we’ll dive into the first real attempts to conquer the North Pole, by land or by sea. And we’ll analyze what went so extremely wrong.

European explorers often thought of the Arctic as an empty wasteland, and the Indigenous people who lived there as childlike. But as one historian put it, “the real children in the Arctic would be the white explorers.”

In this episode, we’ll meet Robert Peary and Matthew Henson, two adventurers with completely different backgrounds and temperaments who formed one of the most enduring and successful partnerships in the history of exploration. But there were also disappoi

The demise of the Franklin Expedition remains the most compelling puzzle in Arctic exploration. What catastrophe had befallen Britain’s best-prepared polar expedition? And what tantalizing clues are still being uncovered?