About 150 years ago, a few days after summer solstice, the skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ...

Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

Little Diomede, also known as Krusenstern Island, was part of Alaska when it was purchased by the United States from Russia in 1867. During the Cold War, the Diomede islands became a strategic ...