• Diana Dretske is a historian curator at Libertyville-based Dunn Museum, operated by the Lake County Forest Preserves. She writes the Lake County History blog for the Forest Preserves. This is her ...

While some ships we passed were visibly decked out in elaborate holiday trimmings, the Christmas decorations onboard the ...

Vikings from Greenland — the first Europeans to arrive in the Americas — lived in a village in Canada’s Newfoundland exactly 1,000 years ago, according to research published Wednesday. Scientists have ...

The Draken Harald Hårfagre, a 115-foot long wooden Viking ship, spent the last few days of its East Coast American Expedition docked at New York City’s North Cove Marina and Untapped Cities Insiders ...

Pop culture and history books usually portray Vikings as tall, blonde, blue-eyed warriors pillaging their way across the North Atlantic. But a new DNA study now says that history may be totally wrong.

Europe's oldest officially dated tree has been uncovered in Greece, and despite living more than a millennium (and counting!), it doesn't look a day over 200. The tree, dubbed "Adonis" by the ...