In 1909, a young American, Ross Marvin, was helping Robert Peary on his last North Pole expedition. Marvin did not survive. He supposedly fell through a crack in the sea ice and drowned. Years later, ...

A week earlier, the New York Herald had printed its own front-page headline: "The North Pole is Discovered by Dr. Frederick A. Cook." Cook, an American explorer who had seemingly returned from the ...

Today in U.S. Naval History - May 5 1944 - USS Comfort is commissioned in San Pedro, Calif.; first ship to be manned jointly by Army and Navy personnel 1948 - VF-17A becomes first carrier qualified ...

In The Margins is a series that covers the history they didn’t teach in school. In 1909, the North Pole was at the center of a heated controversy: Who had made it there first, Robert Peary or ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - An Arctic survival movie about two women - the wife of North Pole explorer Robert Peary and a young Inuit - fighting for their lives together in a snowbound shack kicked off the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A century ago this April, an American named Robert Peary and a companion either stepped foot on the frozen North Pole, or they didn't. The debate over whether Peary became the ...