Abraham Lincoln’s life began in a Kentucky log cabin and ended in a Washington boarding house after an assassin’s attack. Between those two places, he became a lawyer, a husband and father, and the sixteenth president of the United States. He led the country through the Civil War and helped turn the struggle to preserve…
Explore the life of Jesus Christ, his teachings, crucifixion and legacy, with a clear guide to the historical evidence and Christian belief.
How did Genghis Khan unite the Mongols and build an empire? Explore his early life, family, conquests, death and legacy through historical evidence.
A critical history of Adolf Hitler’s early life, rise to power, Nazi dictatorship, the Holocaust, war, and death, with documentary photographs and sources.
Explore Queen Elizabeth II’s childhood, marriage, coronation, 70-year reign, final days, and death, with six historical photographs and documented sources.
Meet Edmund I, England’s second king: his struggle to reunite the kingdom, wives and sons, laws, and violent death at Pucklechurch in 946.
Discover how Æthelstan united England in 927, defended his kingdom at Brunanburh, and built on the legacy of Alfred the Great.
Almanzo Wilder is often introduced as Laura Ingalls Wilder’s husband. Yet his own life stretched from a farm in northern New York to a homestead in Dakota Territory and, finally, a lasting home in the Missouri Ozarks. He was a farmer and father whose childhood memories became Farmer Boy, and whose adult years included illness,…
Nikola Tesla helped shape the electrical world we live in. His work on alternating-current motors and power systems made him one of the most influential inventors of his age. Yet his life also included failed ventures, financial uncertainty, and ambitious dreams that remained unfinished. Behind the familiar portrait was an immigrant engineer whose achievements deserve…
Long before Laura Ingalls Wilder became a familiar name on bookshelves, she was a daughter, teacher, farmer, wife, and mother. Her life crossed a remarkable span of American history, from a Wisconsin log cabin in 1867 to the middle of the twentieth century. The photographs that survive bring us closer to the woman behind the…
