It's practically common knowledge by now that Leif Erikson, not Christopher Columbus, was the first European to set foot in ...

In 1874, Rasmus B. Anderson, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, published a book with an exceedingly blunt title: “America Not Discovered by Columbus.” In 2021, that thesis was bolstered with ...

Viking sagas of transatlantic journeys have thrilled people for centuries. Historians are sorting fact from fiction—from accounts of clashes with the First Nations to where the Norse really settled.

THIS bulky octavo volume forms No. 12 of the miscellaneous publications of the Department of the Interior, United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, which is under the ...