OBSCURE HISTORIES  HISTORY WITH SCIENCE

BOOKS

 

 

Michael F. Robinson, The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010). (Google eBook)

 

Adolphus Washington Greely, Explorers and Travellers (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1904). FREE E-BOOK

 

Charles Officer and Jake Page, A Fabulous Kingdom: The Exploration of the Arctic (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2012).

 

Mark C. Serreze and Roger G. Barry, The Arctic Climate System (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014).

 

 

 

ONLINE RESOURCES

 

PBS American Experience

 

Arlington National Cemetery

 

Some Primary Sources

[Warning: Very blue.]

 

Army Heritage Page

 

Smithsonian Artifacts From the Expedition

 

Climate Change

 

NOAA - Climate

 

 

GRAPHICS and TIMELINES

Greenland Climate Change

 

 

Timelines

 

PBS

 

BBC

 

GREELY RESOURCES

VIDEO

Greenland

 

 

PBS American Experience

Adolphus Greely Expedition

News Reel of Greely receiving medal of honor.

 

THEMES: Exploration, Climate Change, Maritime History

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