Henry VII was consumed for most of his life with personal problems and domestic politics, but he sought personal glory in military victories.
Explore how history’s most powerful rulers turned personal grudges into public vengeance, using armies, prisons, censorship, and government agencies to punish rivals, critics, and anyone who dared openly challenge them.
Before Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier, the US Army court-martialed him after he resisted racial segregation. Discover the forgotten trial that nearly changed his remarkable career and legacy forever.
For the Japanese people, Hirohito was a god. But behind the gilded facade and the royal duty he was born to, Hirohito was just a man like any other, and a flawed one at that. While his reign as Japanese Emperor centered around the growing power of the military and a series of terrible wars, Hirohito's own life was much different behind closed doors.
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