Albert Marrin

A biography of the struggling Austrian artist, who rose from obscurity to power as the leader of the Nazi party and later, the German nation, and whose ambitions led the world to war.

Just seventy-five years ago, the American government did something that most would consider unthinkable today: it rounded up over 100,000 of its own citizens based on nothing more than their ancestry and, suspicious of their loyalty, kept them in concentration camps for the better part of four years. Here, listeners will be introduced to people like Mine Okubo, a Japanese American artist who spent years in the camps as a young woman and later depicted...

In spring of 1918, World War I was underway, and troops at Fort Riley, Kansas, found themselves felled by influenza. By the summer of 1918, the second wave struck as a highly contagious and lethal epidemic and within weeks exploded into a pandemic, an illness that travels rapidly from one continent to another. It would impact the course of the war, and kill many millions more soldiers than warfare itself. Of all diseases, the 1918 flu was by far...

Featuring black-and-white historical photographs, a timely examination of the Cold War and the relevance of Communism in today's world includes coverage of the McCarthy hearings, the Hollywood Ten, and the cases of the Rosenbergs and the Scottsboro Boys.

Discusses the life of the Hunkpapa chief who is remembered for his defeat of General Custer at Little Big Horn.

An account of Grant's life and his role in the Civil War.

Describes the history and culture of the Aztec Indians in the Valley of Mexico and discusses how the arrival of the conquistador Hernando Cortes brought about the fall of their mighty empire.

Describes the events which occurred prior to, during, and after the Allied invasion of Europe in 1944.

A biography of the scientist-adventurer, Roy Chapman Andrews, focusing on the expeditions he led for New York's American Museum of Natural History to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia in an effort to uncover dinosaur fossils.