VISIONS OF THE NORTH

At last it can be told: after more than five years of work collecting, transcribing, and annotating -- not to mention permission-getting, pr...

Levinge's grave on Ascension Along with my colleagues Peter Carney, Gina Koellner, and Mary Williamson, I've found that the work on ...

After a considerable amount of diligent searching over several weeks, I'm very happy to be able to say that John Gregory's baptismal...

While we may never know exactly which of the several candidates for John Gregory's birth is the right one, there's a good deal more ...

As the news spreads around the world that John Gregory of HMS Erebus has become the first member of the Franklin expedition whose remains h...

The news  came this week that one of the skulls found at the site of the Schwatka reburial at Erebus Bay on King William Island has been ...

I'd heard about it for years, how John Torrington -- the unfortunate leading stoker on HMS "Erebus" -- had found himself in th...

Jared Harris as Captain Francis Crozier Back in March of 2018, when viewers in North America turned on their televisions to see what "T...

It may be one of the most extraordinary relics of the Franklin expedition that's never before been seen: a brooch, containing in its inm...

William John Wills One of the most exciting things about editing the letters of the men of the Franklin expedition and their families is all...

You're about to embark on one of the greatest adventures in the history of exploration -- the search for the Northwest Passage under ...