Erik the Red, whose real name was Erik Thorvaldsson, was a daring Viking explorer who famously turned a remote Arctic island ...

Greenland’s history begins with a Viking exile accused of murder. Named deceptively to attract settlers, the world’s largest ...

Who named America? Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci inspired the name via a 1507 map by Martin Waldseemüller. Learn who was ...

Set in 1908, this charming folk musical about sisterhood and the founding of Peninsula State Park runs through March 1.

American history is filled with dramatic stories, legendary figures, and incredible events that have been repeated so often they’re accepted […] ...

Just over 500 years ago, on 3 August 1492, Christopher Columbus, the admiral from Genoa underwritten by Ferdinand II and Isabella I of Spain, set off on the first of 4 trips across the Atlantic. He ...

In 1973, Yale sociologist Kai T. Erikson got a phone call from an attorney, asking him to recommend a graduate student who could consult on a class-action lawsuit in West Virginia coal country. The ...

Microsoft has fixed a known issue that caused bright white flashes when launching File Explorer in dark mode on Windows 11 systems after installing the KB5070311 optional update. The bug was also ...

After forty-plus years of restoration by Save Our Ship, Inc. (S.O.S., Inc.) the Leif Erikson Viking ship will be on display and open to the public this weekend during the “Annual Julebyen (pronounced ...

After several decades of volunteer work, Save Our Ship, Inc. unveiled the recently restored Leif Erikson Viking ship. The community of Knife River hosted their local ‘Julebeyen’ or Christmas village ...

Save Our Ship, Inc. has been working on the restoration. It will debut at the annual “Julebyen Christmas Village” celebration in Knife River. The boat was built in Norway in 1926 as a replica of the ...