Benjamin Franklin: Daring the Lightning
Benjamin Franklin was, without question, one of the most extraordinary men the world has ever known. One of seventeen children of a Boston candlemaker, he had only one year of form... Read More
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Jon Stewart: Beyond The Moments Of Zen
Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, has been called a "cultural force," a "fourth branch of government," and "the most influential man in America." In this pionee... Read More
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1836: Sam Houston Battles Santa Anna
During an extraordinary eighteen minutes on an April afternoon in 1836, the Battle of San Jacinto took place just east of what is today Houston, Texas. With that clash, a crucial p... Read More
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Marooned in the Arctic
Travel writer Lawrence Millman and his Inuit companions set out for an uncharted island off the coast of the Canadian Arctic. When the engine on their boat dies, the men find thems... Read More
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The Other D-Day
Popular historians have seldom written about the "other D-Day." But the massive invasion of the French Riviera - just weeks after the Normandy invasion of 1944 - opened up the key ... Read More
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Poacher War
What does India’s Kaziranga National park have that the rest of the country’s decimated reserves do not? Plenty of tigers, for starters. (The world’s highest density.) Fleets... Read More
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Great Leaders: Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney’s life is one of privilege and achievement. The son of Michigan governor George Romney, he is a graduate of both the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Law Schoo... Read More
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The Black Death
In the 1300s, a third of the population of Europe died of plague carried by rat-borne fleas, shocking the medieval world to its foundations. “Very rarely,” award-winning author... Read More
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Getting Stuff (That Matters) Done
In this latest installment of Tom Peters' continued distillation of what he's learned over the course of his career, he turns to what's perhaps the essence of (capital E intended) ... Read More
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Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin Remake the World
In diplomatic history, there is perhaps no better example of the rule of unintended consequences than the Yalta Conference, the 1945 meeting between the president of the United Sta... Read More
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1492: In Columbus' Time
We think of the period when Christopher Columbus traveled to the New World as a Golden Age of exploration and discovery capped by bold journeys across uncharted seas, archaeologica... Read More
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The President and The Madman
Modern Americans are accustomed to "the insanity defense," but what if a madman shot the president? During the Victorian Era? In this brief gripping account, award-winning author B... Read More
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Jefferson's Monticello
Virginia's Monticello was President Thomas Jefferson’s home for the last fifty-six years of his life. The author of the Constitution of the United States spent forty of those yea... Read More
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The End of The Aztecs
History offers no more astonishing instance of the part that chance plays in our lives than the catastrophic slow-motion clash between Spanish explorer Hernando Cortes and the Azte... Read More
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Pepper, A History
What in the world could be so extraordinary about pepper that men willingly died for it?
If you enlarge your historical horizon a bit, and look back just a few centuries, there is... Read More
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President Truman
World War II was roaring to a climax. Harry Truman was meeting with the speaker of the House of Representatives and his old friend Sam Raybur when he was called to the White House:... Read More
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The Navajo Code Talkers
A top secret military code helped win World War II in the Pacific. The unbroken code was not based on numbers or symbols but on birds and whales and fish. This is the story of the ... Read More
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Looking For Henry Hudson
In 1611, Henry Hudson was on his second trip to the New World, seeking a shortcut through North America to the riches of the Orient. After having wintered over in what is now known... Read More
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George Cukor: The Interview
In 1973, legendary film critic and historian Richard Schickel and a documentary crew sat down with Academy Award-winning director George Cukor at his Hollywood home. It was a rare ... Read More
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