Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel invented dynamite and other explosives. He used his enormous fortune from 355 patents to institute the Nobel Prizes.

John Marshall Harlan served as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1877 until his death in 1911, and is remembered as one of the most forceful dissenters in the history of that tribunal.

Find out how Pauline Cushman became a spy for the Union Army and made fame and fortune on the lecture circuit, only to die destitute of an opium overdose.

Edwin Booth was a 19th century Shakespearean actor best known for his portrayal of Hamlet and as the brother of assassin John Wilkes Booth.

Jeb Stuart was a General and cavalry leader for the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He worked closely with General Robert E. Lee.

Robert Ingersoll was an American politician and orator best known as "the great agnostic" who popularized criticism of the Bible and scientific rationalism.

Benjamin Harrison is best known as the 23rd president of the United States. He was the grandson of President William Henry Harrison.

Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist who wrote symphonies, concerti, chamber music, piano works, and choral compositions.

Melville Fuller was chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1888 until his death in 1910.