The story of Angoon’s bombardment has been repeated for more than a century. But it changes depending on who is telling it.

A mystery beginning in the South Atlantic and ending in South Kensington has finally been solved. The century-long story of ...

A reminder of this exploitation was found in 2007, when a bowhead whale in Alaska was found to have fragments of a harpoon ...

The whales are having far less fun in Chadd Lacy’s “Balance of Power,” in which a harpoon is presented in its normal size atop a comparatively tiny blown-glass humpback. “Once Was …” by Jenna H.