Adolf Hitler has just died and the Nazi regime is crumbling. Amidst the chaos, rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun lea...

A chance meeting with his personal hero Thomas Edison and a visit to a Chicago meat packing plant give Henry Ford a b...

George Hearst is on the verge of giving up his dream of striking gold during the '49 gold rush. But if he gives up, h...

Samuel Colt's invention of the revolver and his use of mass production techniques to build it help drive the industri...

Dry goods store owner Levi Strauss agrees to finance tailor Jacob Davis' design for overalls with copper rivets. The ...

When Samuel Morse receives an urgent message from afar that his wife is about to die, he races back to be by her side...

It's September 17, 1862, and The Battle of Antietam rages! Standing right in the thick of the fight is a former schoo...

America has plunged into Civil War! If German immigrant Adolphus Busch dies in a deadly standoff, one of the most Ame...

America has plunged into Civil War! If German immigrant Adolphus Busch dies in a deadly standoff, one of the most Ame...

A twenty-four year old bookkeeper, John D Rockefeller, is about to bet every penny he has on a fledgling upstart indu...

A telegraph operator is in the throws of a crisis situation! The trains along the Pennsylvania Railroad line have sto...

Two young frustrated mechanics in Milwaukie have an idea - to put an engine inside of a bicycle frame. If William Har...