This week, we look at an ill-fated expedition former President Teddy Roosevelt took into the Amazon.

If you $1 million, what would you buy with it? For Henry Folger, the answer was Shakespeare.

Goya was a school of one with no rivals in his native Spain and few elsewhere.

The 1600s were a time of religious intolerance and Anne Hutchinson was persecuted for challenging the exclusively male clergy.

Wiley Post was the first person to fly solo around the globe. In his day, he was second only to Lindbergh in fame, but he is largely forgotten today.

The son of a slave and his former master, Benjamin Banneker was a self-taught astronomer, an almanac author, and a surveyor for the site of the nation's capital.

Roget compiled his famous thesaurus when he was in his 70s, but he was a brilliant polymath with many accomplishments before that.

Sometimes a portion of a great life can make a fine story and a good book, as in the case of Michelangelo painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Gertrude Bell was captivated by the Middle East and had a passion for ancient history, but she made modern history by helping establish the nation of Iraq.

Robert Johnson's talent has become the stuff of legend, even if he didn't become a national blues star during his lifetime.