People who change the world may, or may not, be famous in their own lifetimes. Often it takes years for others to understand forward-thinking contributions. This collection introduces you to some of the world's most-famous people
Shakespeare wrote immortal lines for this play, including the now-famous phrase: "This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle..."
This is the theme song of The War, a Ken Burns documentary.
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...
A man of contrasts who owned slaves, Thomas Jefferson declared that all men were born equal.
Before the Civil War erupted, Thomas Jonathon Jackson was a professor at VMI (Virginia Military Institute).
Thomas Paine - writer of numerous pamphlets during the American Revolution - knew how to put things in perspective.
Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) was the first African-American to serve as a U.
In this rare interview - which begins, momentarily, with a grey screen - Tolkien describes how his children reacted to his stories - and how their com...
After working at Herodium, an important archaeological site in Israel, Professor Ehud Netzer (of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem) located what he (...
In this interview with Errol Morris (of Bravo TV), Tony Mendez relates some of the background of the ARGO "exfiltration" plan he created with Hollywoo...
It is said that "Soweto sneezed .
J.M. Barrie - whose family called him "Jamie" when he was young - wrote one of the most-beloved of all children's stories.
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