Actor Clark Gable joins the Air Force during World War II, Ponce de Leon quarrels with Diego Columbus, and Griselda Blanco takes over the cocaine trade in Miami. ...

Paleontologists Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope become rivals, and Penzias and Wilson discover the echo of the Big Bang. Featuring Greg Kinnear, Stephen Merchant, Justin Lo ...

Frances Cleveland becomes the youngest first lady ever, Edith Wilson runs the country after Woodrow Wilson's stroke, and Dolley Madison saves several artifacts from destr ...

Jim Thorpe is named the greatest athlete of the 20th century, Babe Didrikson breaks down gender barriers in sports, and Jim Abbott achieves prominence as a pitcher despit ...

Baron von Steuben helps train the Continental Army, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson campaign against each other for president, and Benedict Arnold betrays George Washingt ...

James Cook discovers Hawaii and parties with the natives, Japanese-American Daniel Inouye fights heroically in World War II, and Eddie Aikau becomes one of the world's gr ...

Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (1941) angers William Randolph Hearst, animator Ub Iwerkss helps Walt Disney create Mickey Mouse, and Nancy Reagan convinces her movie-star hu ...

Charles Sumner gets caned on the Senate floor, Judge J. Waties Waring helps to end segregation, and a slave named Robert Smalls commandeers a Confederate warship. Featuri ...

Abraham Lincoln tries to avoid assassination on the way to his inauguration, Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner, and Edgar Allan Poe feuds with Rufus Grisw ...

Alan Freed becomes one of the first radio DJs to broadcast rock 'n' roll, Kris Kristofferson gets his big break with some help from his hero, Johnny Cash, and Sylvia Robi ...

The U.S. reluctantly accepts the Statue of Liberty, Sybil Ludington goes on an epic ride to warn of a British attack, and journalist Nellie Bly infiltrates a corrupt ment ...

Scientist Percy Julian overcomes racial barriers, Claudette Colvin refuses to give up her bus seat months before Rosa Parks's famous protest, and Joe Louis fights German ...

Hold-outs fight to the bitter end at the Alamo, Billy the Kid goes on the run from lawman Pat Garrett, and Teddy Roosevelt rounds up the Rough Riders and goes to war. Gue ...

Lewis and Clark explore the dangerous west, evolution is questioned in the controversial trial of the century, and Dolly Parton has to leave the man who made her famous. ...

Ralph Nader goes to war with General Motors, Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle go from best friends to bitter rivals, and the Kellogg Brothers invent cereal but battle e ...

Patty Hearst gets kidnapped and brainwashed, Mark Twain flees the city in fear and finds his unlikely first hit story. Abolitionist Mary Ellen Pleasant becomes and influe ...

Mary Dyer wages war with the Puritan establishment, two cunning thieves pull off a $500 million art heist, and the most notorious arsonist in New England history is revea ...

John Pemberton invents Coca-Cola from wine and cocaine, the FBI tries to take down Martin Luther King Jr., and Stetson Kennedy infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan. Guest starrin ...

Al Capone gets destroyed by an unlikely enemy, prairie lawyer Abraham Lincoln gets a huge break, and the police go to war with protestors during the Haymarket Riot. Guest ...

Woodward and Bernstein blow open the Watergate scandal, actors/brothers Edwin and John Wilkes Booth engage in a tragic feud, and Elvis crashes the White House to meet Nix ...