The kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr. became a story that gripped the nation.

As Charles and Anne Lindbergh waited desperately for word of their son, ransom notes arrived, intermediaries stepped forward, and a search stretched from the New Jersey countryside to the streets of New York. For more than two months, hope remained that Charlie would be brought home safely.

Then, on May 12, 1932, that hope came to a devastating end.

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The Spirit of St. Louis

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Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead

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Lindbergh

By A. Scott Berg

Lindbergh: The Crime

By Noel Behn

Little Lindy Is Kidnapped

By Thomas Doherty

The Case That Never Dies

By Lloyd C. Gardner

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Suspect No. 1: The Man Who Got Away

By Lise Pearlman

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Charles A. Lindbergh went from international hero to a father facing unimaginable heartbreak.

He and his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, were seeking refuge from the relentless public attention that came with fame. The Lindberghs retreated to the New Jersey countryside, where the secluded home they hoped would be their sanctuary would instead become the setting for one of the most infamous crimes in American history.

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The Spirit of St. Louis

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Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead

By Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Lindbergh

By A. Scott Berg

Lindbergh: The Crime

By Noel Behn

Little Lindy Is Kidnapped

By Thomas Doherty

The Case That Never Dies

By Lloyd C. Gardner

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Suspect No. 1: The Man Who Got Away

By Lise Pearlman

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Few figures in history have inspired more myths, rumors, and legends than Grigory Rasputin.

To some, he was a holy man blessed with miraculous healing abilities. To others... he was a manipulative fraud whose negative influence helped bring down an empire.

The truth, as it often is, lies somewhere in between...

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Rasputin: The Untold Story

By Joseph T. Fuhrmann

The Last Days of the Romanovs

By Helen Rappaport

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As travelers continued vanishing along the Osage Mission Trail, suspicions slowly began to gather around a lonely cabin on the Kansas prairie.
In Part II, we follow the unraveling of the Bloody Bender mystery...from the disappearance of Dr. William York to the manhunt that followed, and the legends that blurred the line between history and folklore.

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All the Blood We Share: A Novel of the Bloody Benders of Kansas By Camilla Bruce

Murder & Mayhem in Southeast Kansas

By Larry E. Wood

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Before it became one of the most disturbing cases in American frontier history, the Bender homestead was simply a stop along a remote stretch of prairie.

In this first episode, we trace the historical movements unfolding in Kansas...From the Homestead Act of 1862 to the travelers of the Osage Mission Trail, to understand the world the Bender family lived in and what might have motivated them in their crimes.

Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier

By Susan Jonusas

All the Blood We Share: A Novel of the Bloody Benders of Kansas By Camilla Bruce

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Marie Antoinette had already been judged long before she ever stood trial...

In Part III, we follow the final collapse of the monarchy as the Revolution turns towards the guillotine for justice.

Marie Antoinette, once a symbol of excess, is now destitute, at the mercy of the people she used to rule...

Marie Antoinette: The Journey

By Antonia Fraser

A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution

By Jeremy Popkin

Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France

By Evelyne Lever

Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

By Simon Schama

The Scarlet Pimpernel

By Baroness Orczy

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Marie Antoinette’s role was clear: produce an heir, secure the dynasty, and stabilize the Bourbon monarchy.

She did her duty...But France was unraveling.

In Part II, we trace the years between the birth of her children and the Women's March to Versailles. As the financial crisis deepens and The French Revolution takes shape, the queen becomes the perfect representative for a nation past the point of frustration.

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By Jeremy Popkin

Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France

By Evelyne Lever

Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

By Simon Schama

The Scarlet Pimpernel

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Before she became a symbol of excess, hatred, and revolution, Marie Antoinette was a child shaped by diplomacy.

In this first episode, we trace her life back to Vienna, where an Austrian archduchess was raised not for personal fulfillment, but to serve the political needs of empire.

From her childhood under the watchful eye of Empress Maria Theresa to her marriage into the French Bourbon dynasty at just fourteen, this episode follows the making of a queen as she entered a kingdom already strained by war, staggering debt, and a weakening monarchy...long before the consequences of that world would be laid at her feet.

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Marie Antoinette: The Journey

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A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution

By Jeremy Popkin

Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France

By Evelyne Lever

Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

By Simon Schama

The Scarlet Pimpernel

By Baroness Orczy

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