BIO Classroom

Whatever happened to Amelia Earhart? This profile of the legendary aviatrix and daredevil who vanished without a trace in 1937 looks at the mystery of her disappearance...   Read More

A look at five generations of the colorful and wealthy family. Follows their story from its 18th-century beginnings, when fur trader John Jacob Astor became...   Read More

Story of the 19th-century power broker who once controlled 70 percent of all the steel and 60 percent of all stocks in America.  

Profile of the founder of modern psychology that covers his youth in Vienna, his use of cocaine and irrational fears, and the psychological detective story...   Read More

Chronicles the life of the scientific genius who laid the foundations for calculus and defined the laws of gravity, but who lived a lonely and unhappy personal...   Read More

The remarkable life story of Alexander Graham Bell, the man whose driving passion--to enable the deaf to communicate--led to the invention of the telephone...   Read More

Story of the genius who revolutionized communications and entertainment. Includes an interview with Frances Jehl, Edison's assistant during his most prolific...   Read More

The real-life adventures of William F. Cody, alias Buffalo Bill, whose exploits as a frontiersman were exaggerated and immortalized by writer Ned Buntline in...   Read More

The story of the great Apache guerrilla warrior Goyathlay, called by the Mexicans'Geronimo . Forced off his beloved Arizona land by American authorities in...   Read More

Story of the women who broadcast Japanese propaganda to American troops in WWII. Focuses on Iva Toguri, an US citizen who became known as "Tokyo Rose" for her...   Read More