Giacomo Casanova
Casanova led a life so full of sex and adventure that today we call any particularly charismatic and successful lover by his name. But he was also. smart and witty, traveled and wrote extensively, and...
10 Feb 201437min
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Pt. 2
Rosa's arrest for breaking bus segregation laws catalyzed the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the keystones in the American Civil Rights Movement. It was widely covered in the national media, which bro...
5 Feb 201420min
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Pt. 1
Anyone who has ever heard about the Civil Rights Movement in the United States is sure to know that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus. But that's but a ti...
3 Feb 201424min
Crown Prince Sado of Korea
Crown Prince Sado of Korea -- sometimes called Korea's "Coffin King" -- has been described as insane, depraved and sadistic, but when you examine his short life, it's more complicated than a list of a...
29 Jan 201432min
Pueblo Revolt
History is written by the victors. But one big exception to that conventional wisdom is the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, in which Native Americans rose up against Spanish colonists and missionaries at the t...
27 Jan 201428min
Avicenna
You may never have heard of him, but Avicenna was one of the first, and probably the most influential, Islamic philosopher-scientists. He's listed among the great philosophers in Dante's Inferno and i...
22 Jan 201426min
Embalming and Mummification Rituals of Ancient Egypt
So how did Ancient Egyptians actually embalm their dead? Thanks in large part to Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus, we have some great descriptions of what happened to the deceased. Learn more about you...
20 Jan 201428min
The Sinking of the S.S. Arctic
When the S.S. Arctic joined the Collins line fleet in the 1850s, it was by all accounts a glorious ship. But in 1854, the steamer collided with another ship in a fog, and the resulting panic led to th...
15 Jan 201426min
