
December the 22nd, 1944. Zero for 17 hours. Bastonia, Belgium. Corporal Daniel Danny Reeves crouched in the frozen foxhole, his fingers numb despite two pairs…

November 11th, 1943. 05.30 hours. Bugenville Island, Solomon Islands. The jungle mist hung thick over the perimeter of the Third Marine Division’s forward positions at…

October 14th, 1943, 27,000 ft above Schwinford, Germany, Captain Don Blakesley, commanding the fourth fighter group, leveled his P47 Thunderbolt and scanned the sky ahead.…

Between 1525 and 1866, more than 12 million Africans were forced across the Atlantic Ocean in chains. 2 million of them never saw land again.…

The lanterns like an old Africanamean man, a storyteller of suspenseful tales. The lantern’s light moved like a slow blade across the thin cracks of…

It was the 9th day of September in the year 1739. [music] The mist hung low over the Stono River. The air was heavy with…

In 1857, nine men in black robes gathered in a marble chamber beneath the Capitol building and made a decision that would define America for…

In the spring of 1841, the man known as Solomon Northup walked the streets of Saratoga Springs with his head held high. He was not…

On September 12th, 1848, local authorities in Bourban County raided a small schoolhouse on the outskirts of the town of Paris and discovered something that…

The year is 1781. The location is the murky water of Walabout Bay, just off the coast of New York. A heavy fog sits on…





