Mark Twain prowled the rough-and-tumble streets of 1860s San Francisco with a hard-drinking, larger-than-life fireman
Major Taylor had to brave more than the competition to become one of the most acclaimed cyclists of the world
The Nobel Peace Prize winner talks about the secret weapon in her decades of struggle—the power of Buddhism
In 1912, Jim Thorpe became the greatest American Olympian of all time, but not if you ask the IOC
Rudolph Valentino fought a long battle against innuendo about his masculinity right up until he died. But now he seems to have won
The spaghetti-slinging robot drew crowds at Grazie’s Italian Restaurant in Tokyo
In 1912, a family of six was murdered by ax in the little town of Villisca, Iowa. Might these killings be linked to nine other similar crimes?
Food writer Ruth Reichl looks at the impact of the famous chef's partnership with her husband Paul
Instead, Etta Shiber, a widow and former Manhattan housewife, helped smuggle stranded Allied soldiers out of Nazi-occupied in Paris
Robert Caro, the esteemed biographer of Lyndon Baines Johnson, talks on the Shakespearean life of the 36th president
She entered the brothel business without apology and set out to become the best madam in America
TR’s rough ride as New York’s police chief shaped the man who became president just six years later
The plot to kill Michael Malloy for life-insurance money seemed foolproof—until the conspirators actually tried it
The champion golfer was critically injured in 1949—and went on to the most dominant phase of his career
The founder of Rhode Island often helped out the early colonists in their dealings with Native Americans
John Harlan championed racial justice on a hostile Supreme Court. Robert Harlan, a freed slave, achieved renown despite the court's decisions
She was young, married and a mother. But after her husband died in battle against the Nazis, she became a secret agent for the British
Seventy years after the day that lives on in infamy, the soldiers stationed at Pearl Harbor recall their experiences
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