Influenza 1918 is the story of the worst epidemic the United States has ever known. Before it was over, the flu would kill more than 600,000 Americans - more than all the combat deaths of this century combined.

In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “...

On August 8, 1908, at a racetrack outside Paris, Wilbur Wright executed what was, for him, a routine...

As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transforma...

As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transforma...

Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journ...

The Triangle Fire chronicles the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City kill...

On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world's two largest oceans and signali...

November 2016 : The United States of America are about to elect their new president. AMERICA is a d...

In 1988, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presi...

Actor Dustin Hoffman narrates this decade-spanning documentary that highlights the contributions of ...

Filmed over five years in Kansas City, this documentary follows four transgender kids – beginning at...

In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, th...

Tuberculosis is the deadliest killer in human history, responsible for one in four deaths for almost...

Rob Williams was an African-American living in Monroe, North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s. Living...
He was a farmer, a businessman, an unknown politician who suddenly found himself president. Of all t...

In the mid 1800s, New York City was one of the most crowded places on earth. The congested streets a...

The remarkable story of Earl Silas Tupper, an ambitious but reclusive small-town inventor, and Brown...

On February 1, 1913, more than 150,000 people eagerly rushed to Grand Central Terminal to gaze at Ne...

One of the most popular rockers of the 1950s and early 60s, Fats Domino and his record sales were ri...

Discover the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst who help...