U.S. History
All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day.
World History
History from countries and communities across the globe, including the world’s major wars.
Eras & Ages
From prehistory, though antiquity and into the 21st century, all of history’s biggest chapters.
Culture & Tradition
The stories behind the faiths, food, entertainment and holidays that shape our world.
Science & Innovation
The pivotal discoveries, visionary inventors and natural phenomena that impacted history.
James Earl Ray, one of the most infamous assassins in American History, killed MLK and now plots his escape from a Tennessee prison.
Sonny Barger helped mold the Hells Angels into a bloodstained blueprint for all outlaw biker clubs that followed.
When Bronx Capo John Gotti turned on boss Paul Castellano, the most powerful NY Mafia family changed forever.
Explore how the NYC Mafia in the 1990s used extortion tactics to impose a 'mob tax' on legitimate businesses.
Follow the American Mafia from their early development in New York City neighborhoods through Prohibition, to the boom days of the 1950s.