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Alcuin of York: The Mind Behind the Carolingian Renaissance
Aug 23, 202621 min
Alfred Rosenberg: The Ideologue Who Drafted Nazi Hatred
Aug 23, 202620 min
Alice Hamilton: The Doctor Who Founded Industrial Toxicology
Aug 23, 202620 min
Kiki de Montparnasse: Queen of Bohemian 1920s Paris
Aug 23, 202621 min
Rebecca Lee Crumpler: First Black Woman Doctor in America
Aug 23, 202619 min
Anaïs Nin: The Diarist Who Lived a Bicoastal Double Life
Aug 23, 202620 min
Anna Swan: The Giantess Who Refused to Be a Spectacle
Aug 23, 202618 min
Anne Bonny: The Pirate Legend Built From 61 Days at Sea
Aug 23, 202622 min
Antonin Artaud: The Madman Who Rewired Modern Theater
Aug 23, 202622 min
Barry Lopez: From Childhood Trauma to Voice of the Wild
Aug 23, 202618 min
Bill McKibben: From Magazine Writer to Climate Organizer
Aug 23, 202619 min
Calico Jack: How a 61-Day Pirate Became a Legend
Aug 23, 202621 min
Blackbeard: The Businessman Behind the Bloodthirsty Myth
Aug 23, 202622 min
Chester Himes: From Prison Cell to Literary Icon in Exile
Aug 23, 202618 min
Clay Allison: The Minister's Son Turned Frontier Gunfighter
Aug 23, 202618 min
Cnut the Great: The Viking Who Built a North Sea Empire
Aug 23, 202625 min
Colette: From Scandalous Stage to French State Funeral
Aug 23, 202618 min
David Brower: The Uncompromising Father of Modern Conservation
Aug 23, 202620 min
Djuna Barnes: The Fierce Genius of Modernist Literature
Aug 23, 202618 min
Dolley Madison: The Woman Who Held Washington Together
Aug 23, 202622 min
Donald Goines: The Godfather of Urban Fiction
Aug 23, 202621 min
Douglas Chadwick: The Biologist Who Connects Wild Landscapes
Aug 23, 202622 min
Duke Kahanamoku: Olympic Champion and Father of Surfing
Aug 23, 202621 min
Ethel Kennedy: Grief, Grit, and a Life of Activism
Aug 23, 202619 min
Frances Cleveland: The Teen Who Reinvented the First Lady
Aug 23, 202622 min
Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Literary Genius and National Pariah
Aug 23, 202619 min
Frank Costello: The Mob Boss Who Ran Crime Like a Corporation
Aug 23, 202621 min
Fred Perry: The Outsider Who Conquered Tennis and Fashion
Aug 23, 202621 min
Belle Starr: The Educated Girl Who Became the Bandit Queen
Aug 23, 202619 min
Jiang Qing: From Shanghai Actress to Madame Mao
Aug 23, 202614 min
General Tom Thumb: Charles Stratton, Barnum's Star
Aug 23, 202619 min
George Schaller: The Biologist Who Redrew the Map
Aug 23, 202619 min
Gino Bartali: The Cyclist Who Smuggled to Save Lives
Aug 23, 202623 min
Grace O'Malley: The Pirate Queen Who Faced Elizabeth I
Aug 23, 202623 min
Harald Hardrada: The Viking King and the End of an Age
Aug 23, 202622 min
Harry Daglian and the Demon Core Accident
Aug 23, 202621 min
Harvey Cushing: Father of Modern Neurosurgery
Aug 23, 202618 min
Horace Greeley: The Editor Who Tried to Fix America
Aug 23, 202624 min
Ambroise Pare: The Barber Surgeon Who Ended the Dark Ages
Aug 23, 202624 min
Carlo Gambino: The Quiet Boss of All Bosses
Aug 23, 202622 min
Ellen Watson: The Truth Behind Cattle Kate
Aug 23, 202621 min
Elmore Leonard: The Dickens of Detroit
Aug 23, 202620 min
Emily Stowe: Picking the Locks of a Closed System
Aug 23, 202619 min
Gertrude Stein: The Woman Who Reinvented Language
Aug 23, 202622 min
Griselda Blanco: The Godmother of the Cocaine Trade
Aug 23, 202618 min
Jacob Riis: The Flash Powder Reporter Who Exposed the Slums
Aug 23, 202619 min
Louis L'Amour: The Wandering Life Behind the Western Empire
Aug 23, 202620 min
Big Bill Tilden: Tennis King Erased by His Own Sport
Aug 23, 202618 min
Joseph Pulitzer: The Immigrant Who Invented Yellow Journalism
Aug 23, 202620 min
The Hongwu Emperor: From Starving Orphan to Ming Founder
Aug 23, 202622 min