San Francisco, 1900: A chance post-mortem examination revealed that a Chinese immigrant had perished from bubonic plague. As the city's racially animated and profit-driven response initially failed...
After his high-speed aircraft is forced to make an emergency landing during a test flight, a young businessman and his brother are left stranded on an eerie uncharted island where the laws of time no...
By 1900, Lyman Frank Baum was a 44-year-old Chicago journalist whose aspirations had taken him around the nation, seeking but not finding fortune as an actor, dry grocer, publisher, and traveling...
The Circus explores the colorful history of this popular, influential and distinctly American form of entertainment, from the first one-ring show at the end of the 18th century to 1956, when the...
American Experience: The Codebreaker tells the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst whose painstaking work decoding thousands of messages for the U.S...