An examination of the intimate life of America's most consequential president, Abraham Lincoln. As told by preeminent Lincoln scholars and never before seen photographs and letters, Lincoln's romantic relationships with men is detailed. The lens is widened into the history of human sexual fluidity and focuses on the profound differences between sexual mores of the 19th century and those we hold today.
In 1858 Charles Darwin struggles to publish one of the most controversial scientific theories ever c...
The Grand Canal project was one of the key pledges of the former President Lee. He first said that h...
Watched by crowds, Sir Redvers Buller, Lady Buller, the Mayor of Southampton and others walk along t...
Spectators on the quayside at Southampton wave farewell as the crowded troopship Roslin Castle moves...
A stationary camera, looking diagonally across a racetrack toward the infield, records the horses as...
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have prog...
Debunking the mythology surrounding the 16th century French prophet, Nostradamus.
In the 17th century, the Netherlands experienced an unprecedented artistic explosion: painters such ...
The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpi...
Inaugurated in 1986 by François Mitterrand, a link between the Louvre and Pompidou, Orsay houses the...
Leni Riefenstahl's flamboyant Nazi aesthetics shaped the public image of the 1936 Olympics. Never be...
On October 24, 1940, Philippe Pétain met Adolf Hitler in Montoire and led the French into collaborat...
The story of a Franco-Belgian family living in Japan from 1927 to 1947, a time of prosperity and for...
In Morocco, new excavations on the site of Jebel Irhoud upset the generally accepted view of the dat...