Teddy Roosevelt revolutionizes football, Winston Churchill pays FDR a visit at Christmastime, and Eleanor Roosevelt befriends a female Soviet sniper. Featuring Rob Riggle ...

Carry A. Nation vandalizes bars, Andrew Jackson gets involved in a shootout, and Marsha P. Johnson stands up for LGBT rights. Featuring Vanessa Bayer, Michael Cera, Maria ...

Sam Patch becomes America's first daredevil, Marilyn Monroe and Ella Fitzgerald form a lasting friendship, and Buster Keaton takes his talents to the big screen. Featurin ...

LSD pioneer Timothy Leary escapes from prison, a sailor travels to Devil's Island to perform a daring rescue, and a baker's whiskey habit keeps him calm aboard the Titani ...

Historical reenactments by A-list talent are presented by inebriated storytellers. ...

Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan fall in love, Wernher von Braun becomes the father of American rocket science, and Russian cosmonauts perform the first spacewalk. ...

J.T. McWilliams forms a community but is muscled out by William Clark, Bugsy Siegel bets his life on the Flamingo Casino, and the Moulin Rouge is the first casino to brea ...

Alexander Graham Bell steals the original design for the telephone from Elisha Gray, and Thomas Edison tries to create a movie-making monopoly. Featuring Parker Posey, Ch ...

Popé leads the Pueblo Indians in a revolt, Boy Scouts founder Ernest Thompson Seton tracks a wolf, and the truth behind the Roswell UFO conspiracy is revealed. Featuring ...

The Wild West origins of the LAPD, Rin Tin Tin's rise to fame as a Hollywood star, and the shady dealings behind the LA Aqueduct and St. Francis Dam. Featuring Giancarlo ...

Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland try to travel around the world in under 80 days, and Thomas Nast's political cartoons lead to the downfall of Tammany Hall leader Boss Tw ...

Kentucky Daisy stakes a claim to land, Gordon Cooper overcomes mechanical issues on a one-man space mission, and African-American Deputy Marshal Bass Reeves is the inspir ...

Milton Bradley popularizes board games, Roger Sharpe helps overturn a pinball ban, and chess master Bobby Fischer defeats Russian rival Boris Spassky during the Cold War. ...

Wayne Wheeler becomes the face of Prohibition, Dorothy Fuldheim breaks barriers in news broadcasting, and Muhammad Ali refuses to fight in the Vietnam War. ...

Harriet Tubman provides military intel to the Union Army, Virginia Hall spies in France during World War II and becomes the first woman in the CIA, and Roald Dahl serves ...

Pirate John Lafitte helps Andrew Jackson defeat the British during the War of 1812, Sam Zemurray becomes a banana kingpin, and Louis Armstrong becomes a jazz legend. Feat ...

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 ...