When Old Norse explorers reached North America, they made history. But their brief, violent encounter with its indigenous ...

My argument with PBS — brought to mind by the administration’s canceling of $1.1 billion in funding for it and National ...

There was once a time in my college journey when I was juggling three different jobs, working in student government, at ...

Greenland may feel like an icy curiosity to most Americans, but who controls it could reshape Arctic shipping, missile ...

As Makoto Yukimura’s moving historical treatise on non-violence, Vinland Saga, drops its final chapter, a generation finds a hopeful blueprint for a gentler way of living ...

Just after midday, we gripped the worn rope handles of a dogsled as 11 dogs surged across the frozen tundra of Western ...

Every Greenland has universal health care, paid maternity leave and child support. (Alaska’s natives would be envious.) Just ...

A 51-year-old former bricklayer may be the most fervent supporter of Trump in the entire Arctic. But it's not always easy ...

Church taxes and elephant ivory Why did the Norse Greenlanders want to trade with Europe in the first place? It was a long and perilous journey, so the incentives had to be pretty powerful.

For centuries, Denmark has presented itself as a good colonial power in Greenland. But, over time, the dark history of a ...