Month: December 2020

This is the story of the deadliest pandemic in modern history, the Spanish Flu.

This is the story of legendary pioneer and frontiersman, Daniel Boone.

Richard Francis Burton packed twelve lifetimes of adventure and scholarship into one. This real life "Indiana Jones" discovered the source of the Nile, traveled to forbidden cities, explored ancient religions and introduced generations of Europeans to the Arabian Nights and other classics of eastern fairytale. This is his story.

Perhaps the greatest Queen in human history, Elizabeth I transformed England from an insignificant half of an island on the periphery of Europe into a great power that shaped the world for centuries. This is her story.

Ordinarily if you speak of world-famous inventor, a beloved author, and respected statesman, you are talking about three different people. But Benjamin Franklin was all these things and more. His life story is the story of colonial America, the story of the striving, self-improving man declaring his independence from his origins to become something more.

Chesty Puller is perhaps the most revered United States Marine in history. This is the story of why.

This is the story of Socrates, the man who drank poison rather than compromise his principles. Soldier, outcast, thinker; the man who has become synonymous with wisdom never thought himself wise, except perhaps in realizing that he knew nothing. We examine the life of the man who said the unexamined life is not worth living.

John Paul Jones was a Navy man, the first great hero in American naval history. This son of a Scottish gardener, accused criminal, and immigrant, proved that the mighty British Navy could be defeated and won his adopted country allies in France. This is the story of how he did it.

Harriet Tubman didn't just escape from slavery. She went back, time and again, to rescue others who had been enslaved. She did so at great risk to herself. This is the story of a remarkable woman who refused to accept what life offered her. This is the story of the woman her people called Moses.

From middle-aged failure to President of the United States in the span of 8 years: Ulysses S. Grant has perhaps the greatest comeback story in American History.