HISTORY STORIES FOR MY SON

his is the story of the man behind the mouse, Walt Disney.

This is the story of Galileo Galilei, the man who proved we are not the center of the Universe and nearly got himself executed for his trouble.

Perhaps America's greatest peacetime President, Theodore Roosevelt was a man of contradictions: a sickly child who came to symbolize strength and virility; a child of wealth who fought the wealthy on behalf of the common man; a New Yorker who made himself a cowboy; a hunter who built the national park system; a man who enjoyed war but accomplished peace. Connecting the dots between these seeming contradictions is a fascinating story, the story of Theodore Roosevelt.

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.