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.
Major Henry Reed Rathbone and his fiancé, Clara Harris, attended a play with Abraham and Mary Lincoln on the night the President was shot. Booth lung...
Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo (1877-1947) was a Democratic Mississippi politician who served as state governor and U.
On June 30, 1905, an obscure patent-office clerk in Switzerland submits a world-changing paper. Without the brilliance of Albert Einstein and his "mir...
Robert Leckie describes his experience during the battle of Pelelieu
Robert Leckie and other U.S. Marines fight the Japanese during the Battle of Guadalcanal. It is a fearsome time for such young men.
If the real name of Rudolf Abel, a main character in "Bridge of Spies," is William ("Willy") Fisher, then who was the real Rudolf Abel?
The last days of the Romanov family begins with these words: ''At midnight, Yakov Yurovsky, the leader of the executioners, came up the stairs to awak...
William Wallace was betrayed near a well in Robroystan, Scotland. This image depicts that well.
Thomas Boleyn, by all contemporary accounts, was a very ambitious man. This image presents a disputed portrait of him.
Playing a key role in supporting Henry VIII's decision to split from papal authority in England, Thomas Cranmer grants the King a dispensation to divo...
This historic film footage, taken by the Edison Film Company, depicts the state of ruin in San Francisco, following the April 1906 earthquake and subs...
Thomas Hobbes, a British philosopher who was born in "the philosophy town" of Malmesbury, in 1588 (during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I), believed th...
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