People who change the world may, or may not, be famous in their own lifetimes. Often it takes years for others to understand forward-thinking contributions. This collection introduces you to some of the world's most-famous people
Lionel Logue's wife Myrtle suffers a heart attack and dies on June 22, 1945. Personally consoled by King George, Logue writes (the following May) tha...
Read the words of King George VI, writing to his good friend and speech therapist Lionel Logue, just two months before the King's death.
Do you know the background of "Little Women?" Meet Louisa May Alcott and learn how she based her still-famous story on her real-life family.
In his own country, Cornwallis came to be known as "the man who lost America." Learn why.
Born Hugh Smithson, Lord Percy was the 2nd Duke of Northumberland and a Member of Parliament. His half-brother willed funds to America which the gover...
Killing Louis XVI took very little time on the morning of January 21, 1793.
When he arrived at the place of his execution, Louis XVI spoke to the gathered crowd.
Although they lived in the same building - the Temple prison in Paris - the French royal family was not allowed to be together unless the revolutionar...
Image of a painting, called Louis XVI Writing His Will at the Temple, by Danloux Henri-Pierre.
Lt. Col. Joshua Chamberlain, from Maine, was an officer in the Union army during the Civil War.
The man whom Thomas Jefferson later described as "the principal hope of America's future efforts on the ocean" was born in a gardener's cottage on the...
The story of a gangster so dominant that he made TIME magazine's top-100 list of the 20th century's most influential people.
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