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.
Marconi's invention provides wireless messages to and from the Titanic.
102 passengers, 41 of whom are Pilgrims, set out in the Mayflower on a late-fall journey across the sea to Virginia.
Lee Harvey Oswald works in Dallas. He knows the President's motorcade route will pass by the building in which he works.
Before John Wilkes Booth plans an assassination, he plans to kidnap the President and "carry him off" to Richmond, Virginia..
Samuel Clemens, writing as Mark Twain, creates a character called Huckleberry Finn. Huck is based on a real person called Tom Blankenship.
In 1934, Charles Howard hires Tom Smith as a trainer to help him break into horse racing; Tom tells him to buy Seabiscuit.
Thomas builds Monticello on his family's land in Virginia.
CIA agent, Tony Mendez, creates a plan and leads a rescue mission for six U.S. diplomats in Tehran.
Learn about Robert E. Lee and the famous military leaders for the Confederate States of America.
Learn about Ulysses S. Grant and the other famous Union military leaders.
Tortuga, located off the coast of Haiti, is home to buccaneers and a safe harbor for pirates.
Russia sends an unmanned robot to the moon before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first human beings to walk on the moon.
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