Fan Favorite: Great American Authors | Mark Twain: Voice of a Nation | 3
In the late 1850s, a young man named Samuel Clemens started out piloting steamboats on the Mississippi River. Within a few years, he embarked on a writing career, adopting the pen name that became fam...
11 Mar 41min
Fan Favorite: Great American Authors | Louisa May Alcott: The Breadwinner | 2
In 1840, eight-year-old Louisa May Alcott moved to the small town of Concord, Massachusetts with her family. There, she spent her days wandering through the woods, putting on plays with her sisters, a...
4 Mar 39min
Fan Favorite: Great American Authors | Edgar Allan Poe: Master of Macabre | 1
In February 1826, 17-year-old Edgar Allan Poe was a promising student at the University of Virginia. But within a few months, gambling debts forced him to abandon his studies. It was just one of many ...
25 Feb 41min
St. Valentines Day Massacre: Closing In On Capone | 3
In the aftermath of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, authorities faced mounting pressure to clean up Chicago and take down the violent mobsters who overran the city – most notoriously, Al Capone. The...
18 Feb 36min
St. Valentines Day Massacre | Public Enemy No. 1 | 2
On Valentine’s Day 1929, seven men were gunned down in a Chicago garage in an attack that stunned the nation. Photographs of the bloody scene appeared on front pages across the country, and the public...
11 Feb 38min
St. Valentines Day Massacre | The Land of Bilk and Money | 1
In 1920, a young Al Capone arrived in Chicago looking for a fresh start, and his timing couldn’t have been better. That same year, Prohibition outlawed the manufacture and sale of alcohol, turning Ame...
4 Feb 39min
Conquering Polio | There Is No Patent | 4
In the early 1950s, Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin were in a race to develop a vaccine against polio. While Salk’s killed-virus vaccine was the first to be distributed, Sabin continued working to perfect...
28 Jan 36min
Conquering Polio | The Cutter Fiasco | 3
In April 1954, a group of first graders lined up in the gymnasium of an elementary school in McLean, Virginia for the start of the Salk polio vaccine trials. In an era before widespread federal govern...
21 Jan 36min
