Biographic profiles of the men and women who — for better or for worse — helped write the pages of human history.
Biographics
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Charles Cullen - America's Most Notorious Angel of Death
Harper Lee - The Reclusive Author
Joe McCarthy: The Original Conspiracy Theorist
Captain William Kidd - From Privateer to Pirate Hunter to Pirate
Iron Felix Dzerzhinsky - Head of the CheKa, Architect of the Red Terror
John Tyler: The Most Hated President of the 19th Century
J. Edgar Hoover - America’s Top Cop or Chief Inquisitor?
Richard Pryor - The Gold Standard of Comedy
Nathanael Greene - The Fighting Quaker Who Became Washington's Most Steadfast Officer
Dag Hammarskjold: The Man Who Built the United Nations
John Gotti - The Teflon Don of the New York Mafia
Mel Fisher: The Treasure Hunting King of Key West
The Harvey’s Casino Bomber; The Most Bizarre True Crime Story in American History
The Fifth Dynasty of Egypt - The Cult of Ra, the Sun God
Dietrich Eckart - The Poet Who Mentored Adolf Hitler
Clovis I - Kings of the Franks Founding Father of France
Frank Lucas - The True Story of the American Gangster
Wernher von Braun - Journey to the Moon
James A Garfield: The ‘What-if?’ President
Bernard Montgomery: The Spartan General
Tokugawa Ieyasu - Japan’s Greatest Shogun
Alfred the Great: The King Who Defeated the Vikings and Helped Unite England
Hammurabi: The Ancient Lawgiver Who Created the Babylonian Empire
Buffalo Bill: The Wild West’s Greatest Showman
Babe Ruth: American Sports Icon
George Custer: An American Leonidas
Benjamin Harrison: The Forgotten President
George “Baby Face” Nelson - Face of an Angel, Soul of a Devil
Jack Johnson America's First Black Sports Superstar
Eliot Ness: The Untouchable Lawman
Joseph Pulitzer: The Birth of Yellow Journalism
Grover Cleveland: America’s Only Double President
Alfred Dreyfus: A Miscarriage of Justice
Pompey the Great: Rome’s Most Illustrious General, Part II
Pompey the Great: Rome’s Most Illustrious General, Part I
Annie Oakley: The Greatest Sharpshooter of the Wild West
Opportunity Rover: Robots on Mars
George Remus: America's Prohibition King
George Carlin: Class Clown, Clear-Eyed Cynic, and Counterculture Crusader
'Chevalier’ John Taylor: The Eye Surgeon Who Blinded (And Possibly Killed) JS Bach
George Harrison: The Not-So-Quiet Beatle
Mobutu Sese Seko: Corruption and Murder in the Heart of Africa
Betty White: America's Sassy Grandmother
William Desmond Taylor: Hollywood's First Murder Mystery
Belle Gunness: America's Most Ruthless Female Killer
Allan Pinkerton: America’s Most Famous Private Eye
John Brown: The Man Who Ignited the American Civil War
William McKinley: Building the American Century
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