Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Complicated Radical Who Launched the Women's Rights Revolution
Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls in 1848, launching the organized women's rights movement in America. She was also a brilliant strategist who made alliances s...
14 Juni 20min
Dolores Huerta: The Co-Founder of the Farm Workers Movement and Her Sixty-Year Secret
Dolores Huerta co-founded the National Farmworkers Association alongside Cesar Chavez, organized the Delano grape strike, coined the phrase "Si, se puede," and spent six decades fighting for the right...
14 Juni 24min
Charlie Chaplin: Scandalous Exile, FBI Persecution, and the Theft of His Own Corpse
Charlie Chaplin was the most famous person on earth — then America turned on him. His relationships with young women, his leftist politics, and his refusal to become a U.S. citizen made him a target o...
14 Juni 19min
Buster Keaton: The Stone-Faced Genius Who Never Flinched
Buster Keaton performed stunts that would kill most people — a two-ton building facade fell on him, missing his body by inches through a precisely measured window opening — and he never changed expres...
14 Juni 23min
Jorge Luis Borges: The Blind Librarian Who Predicted the Internet
Jorge Luis Borges imagined a universal library containing every possible book, a garden of forking paths where every possible outcome exists simultaneously, and an encyclopedia that rewrites itself — ...
14 Juni 20min
Bobby Fischer: The Chess Genius Who Went From Cold War Champion to International Fugitive
Bobby Fischer defeated Boris Spassky in the 1972 "Match of the Century" and became the only American to win the World Chess Championship during the Cold War. Then he disappeared from competitive chess...
14 Juni 18min
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Street Artist Whose Screaming Skull Sold for $110 Million
Jean-Michel Basquiat went from sleeping on park benches and spray-painting cryptic graffiti under the tag SAMO to selling paintings for millions and dining with Andy Warhol — all before he turned twen...
14 Juni 20min
Angela Davis: From FBI Most Wanted Fugitive to Tenured Professor
Angela Davis appeared on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, was arrested on charges of murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy, and was acquitted by an all-white jury in one of the most publicized trials of t...
14 Juni 21min
