History

During the Civil War, Union supporters in President Abraham Lincoln's hometown of Springfield, Illin..

Selections by Peter Maas, Joseph D. Pistone with Richard Woodley, Pino Arlacchi, Fredric Dannen, J..

Hear old-time radio tales of the following "People of History": William Shakespeare, widely regarded..

On September 19, 1985, Dee Snider, lead singer and primary songwriter for the rock band Twisted Sist..

Journalist Frederic Dannen reports on the questionable close relationship between a mobster/informan..

Depicting American justice at its best and worst, The Prosecutors lifts the lid off today's legal ..

Selections by William Manchester, Paul Fussell, Cornelius Ryan, A.J. Liebling, David Kenyon Webste..

Katharine Ramsey, lived from 1874 to 1960. Known as the ‘Red Duchess,' in 1923 she became the first ..

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. ..

Blanche Sweet was an American silent film actress who began her career in the earliest days of the H..