While this popular recognition is largely posthumous, those who labored alongside Henson during his eighteen year Arctic career have never been short of praise for America's foremost black explorer.

Race to the Frozen North by Catherine Johnson tells the incredible true story of Arctic explorer Matthew Henson. Catherine visited Authors Live to read from the book and talk about how she wrote it.

Later, he started working with an explorer named Robert Peary, a man who was interested in the Arctic. That’s how Matthew Henson ended up aiming for the North Pole in 1909, and Neil Armstrong ...