Frank Hurley's Journal - December 10, 1915 All hands in tents to-day.  Bleak and drifting snow, mild blizzard.  Wind very erratic,...

Ed. Note: Once they lost Endurance, Shackleton's main concern became his team's survival when breaking out of the ice. This account gives...

Ed. Note: This passage about December 7, 1941 is from my book, Reagan's Journey - Lessons from a Remarkable Career "On a peaceful Sunday...

I'm watching a video on "The World's Most Famous Train" - the Orient Express. Caught my attention because of the recent photo essay on...

Hurley's Journal, December 5, 1915 "Lazy day in tent, reading Encyclopaedia on Borneo, Sumatra and Australia.  Geographical discussions...

Ed. note: Worsley captured Shackleton's leadership style in this one sentence. Shackleton led by example; he communicated effectively; he...

Frank Hurley's Journal - December 3, 1915 Went to the ship's grave with teams, Wild, McIlroy and Marston salving numerous odds and ends...

Ed, note: In this journal entry, Lees explains their situation and their possible goals. It's also interesting to compare the voices of...

Alexander Macklin's Journal - December 3, 1915 Ed. note: The journal Dr. Macklin kept aboard Endurance went down with the ship to his...

Orde-Lees' journal, December 2, 1915, "there are a good many of us only too anxious to come down again,"

"...the help and company of our leader might always be relied upon..."

Reginald James, physicist, writing in the 1950s... "He probably never made any deliberately planned steps to this end. His methods were...

Orde-Lees' Journal - November 22, 1915 "... The loss of the ship last night cast a slight wave of depression over the camp. No one said...

Orde-Lees' Journal - November 21, 1915 "This evening as we were mostly taking it easy & reading we heard Sir Ernest call out, "She's...

Frank Hurley on Shackleton... “I always found him rising to his best and inspiring confidence when things were at their blackest.”

When the royal governor of Massachusetts, Thomas Hutchinson, was asked why he did not pay off or bribe Sam Adams, he replied, "Such is...

Meterorologist Leonard Hussey on Shackleton: “No one could know Shackleton and work under him without feeling that his great strength lay...

Able Seaman William Bakewell: “Very friendly and easy to talk to. As he acted as librarian he would ask me many questions & my opinion...

Over the next few years, America will be celebrating the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. There were three people who played...