The Story of Us - from the beginning of time to the present - is usually written by "the victors." True-to-life events, however, must include opposing points of view. This collection features stories about people, places and events which go beyond "the already known and obvious."
This British Newsreel - for the week of May 15, 1940 - tries to put an optimistic spin on events of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and its effo...
While researching her book, Making of a Masterpiece, Sally Tippett Rains discovered an old scrapbook created by Margaret Mitchell's aunt.
On the evening of October 8, 1871 a spark set Chicago ablaze. Learn what made it such an at risk city.
After China was united, the First Emperor sent 300,000 soldiers to the northern frontier to drive back invading nomads.
The section of Chinas ancient wall, most-often featured in pictures and film, is actually new.
The Han dynasty built a great wall which has resisted two thousand years of erosion in the barren desert.
How does one create a character like Hannibal Lechter?
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was 63 years old - and living in Vienna - when he started to compose his oratorio, "The Creation" (known as "Die Schpfu...
Helen Keller first realized the meaning of words when her teacher (Annie Sullivan) spelled “water” (w-a-t-e-r) in her hand on the 5th of April, 18...
Before (and after) the Wright Brothers, people died trying to fly.
Life in the Seam, an extremely poor area of District 12, has always been hard.
After a seven-year journey, the Cassini spacecraft delivered its Huygens probe to Titan, Saturns largest moon.
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