Biographies Chapters

We may know about a famous person's accomplishments, but what do we know about THEM? What is the human-interest story in THEIR lives? This biography collection features the stories behind the lives of some famous (and not-so-famous) individuals.

Although he and Catherine of Aragon have a daughter, Princess Mary, Henry VIII wants a living son. This leads to problems with his marriage.

T. C. Williams High School hires a black head coach, Herman Boone, to lead the school's desegregated football team.

Postal workers on the Titanic try to save letters and packages.

Dickie goes to jail for carjacking, kidnapping, and armed robbery; he emerges a changed man.

The pillory is a form of punishment in Colonial America, but it traces its roots to Britain.

After WWII, Greece fights a civil war - civilians against the army - and then, in 1953, there is a terrible earthquake.

Hitler's campaign during economic hard times ultimately leads to his rise as German Chancellor.

Within a year after Bonhoeffer and his colleagues started the Confessing Church, the Nazis were no longer content to merely humiliate Jews. Why mere...

Hitler charged Heinrich Himmler with carrying out the "Final Solution" - the Nazis' plan to rid Germany of all Jews and other political undesirables. ...

HMSResolute, a British Navy ship, becomes trapped in the Arctic ice. The crew abandons the ship but a whaler later finds it.

The Vietnamese communist leader Ho Chi Minh rallies the Vietnamese people and beats the French.

Hoover leaves the work of capturing bank robbers to local police until Dillinger commits a federal offense across state lines.

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