Biographies Chapters

An explanation of the Underground Railroad and how Harriet found it.

Although he initially denies it, Albert Fish, the real-life model for Hannibal Lecter, admits to being a cannibal.

Within twenty-five years of her death, justice prevails and Joan of Arc's guilty verdict is renounced; the Pope orders a new trial.

Raoul Wallenberg is working in Hungary when he learns that Eichmann is rounding-up Hungary's Jewish residents and sending them to death camps.

The greatest amphibious invasion in history will take place under unexpectedly good weather conditions.

Muhammad's experience causes the Islamic faith to spread into Africa and Europe.

With a full scholarship, Nash attends Princeton and is surrounded by other geniuses.

John Wilkes Booth, an actor, enters the Ford's Theater Presidential box welding his derringer and a knife.

Before her death in 1968, Helen earns the Presidential Medal of Freedom and joins the Woman's Hall of Fame.

Alexander is handsome, observant and wise. He speaks fast, walks fast and is so short that when he conquers Persia even a stool isn't high enough for ...

When Abe Lincoln was a young boy of seven, he nearly drowned in Knob Creek.

Threatening the Earps with a rifle, Ike Clanton breaks Tombstone's law against having guns in town.