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He was nine years old. He was afraid of dogs. He would become the most feared conqueror the world has ever known.

In 1171, on the frozen Mongolian steppe, a boy named Temüjin stands paralyzed with fear as mastiffs circle his horse. Within days, his father will be dead—poisoned by enemies—and his entire clan will abandon his family to starve. The...

Before the ships appeared on the horizon, a world flourished.

In the final years before European contact, a young Haudenosaunee man leaves his village with a pouch of seeds pressed against his heart and a dying grandmother's charge: Find what we are losing. Carry it forward.

What follows is an odyssey across a continent that most of the world has...

The richest man in history built something that couldn't be counted.

When Mansa Musa inherits the throne of Mali, he controls more gold than any ruler on earth—enough to destabilize economies across three continents, enough to make his legendary pilgrimage to Mecca a spectacle that will be remembered for seven hundred years.

But gold is merely a...

The Supreme Court ruled in their favor. The President laughed.

In 1828, in the hills of Georgia, a printing press arrived by wagon. It carried the Cherokee syllabary type—the first written Native American language—and a revolutionary idea: that a newspaper could defend a nation against an empire.

David Aganstata was nineteen when he learned to set...

1640. A clerk records a name. The machinery begins to turn.

In a Virginia courtroom, three servants stand trial for running away. Two are white. One is Black. The white men receive four additional years of service. The Black man—John Punch—receives a lifetime.

A clerk named Tobias Quill records the sentence. He does not know he has just written...

HERESY IS BAD FOR BUSINESS. WAR IS EXCELLENT FOR INTEREST RATES.

History tells us that for five hundred years, Europe burned for the "Five Percent"—the tiny theological differences between the Catholic Mass and the Protestant Service. We are told that men died for creeds, that kings fought for souls, and that martyrs bled for the truth.

The ledger...

They called him the Black Demon. They had no idea what he was carrying.

In 1579, a man who should not exist arrives in Japan. Torn from Africa as a child, sold through the Portuguese slave trade, he has survived by hiding his true nature behind a mask of obedience. But concealed against his chest, he carries something far more dangerous than his...

THE INSTITUTION THAT REFUSED TO DIE The Unauthorized Biography of the British Crown

In 1087, William the Conqueror's corpse exploded at his own funeral. It was an inauspicious start for a monarchy, but it set a precedent: no matter how messy things got, the show would go on.

The Institution That Refused to Die is a comedy of survival. From the...

He was born property in the brutal sugar colony of Saint-Domingue, a boy mockingly called "Sickly Stick." But the man they would come to know as Toussaint Louverture saw the world differently. He saw the geometry of power in a master's limp and the seeds of rebellion in a whispered song. He learned that empathy could tame a frantic stallion, and...

Luanda, 1622. The Portuguese governor refuses to offer Princess Njinga a chair.

So she makes her own throne.

With a single gesture—commanding her attendant to kneel and serve as her seat—Njinga transforms a calculated insult into the opening move of a forty-year war against an empire. She has come to negotiate for her dying brother's kingdom. She...

They call him Jack the Ripper. The truth is an institution.

In the fog-choked warrens of 1888 Whitechapel, a terror stalks the streets. But the gruesome murders are not the work of a lone madman. They are "procedures"—calculated acts of surgery performed by The Order, a secret cabal of London's most powerful men who believe society is a disease,...

How do you turn gambling into a multi-billion dollar financial market? You simply find the right loophole—and bet that no one is clever enough to close it.

This is the untold, high-stakes story of the $25 billion regulatory arbitrage that shook American governance to its core. Prediction market platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket achieved the...

Rome, a republic magnificent in its power, yet rotting from within, teeters on the brink of monumental change. Amidst the stench of decay and the fevered pitch of ambition, Gaius Julius Caesar, a man of unparalleled military genius and insatiable drive, prepares to cast the die on a gamble that will reshape the known world.

From the blood-soaked...

IN THE SHADOW OF THE THRONE, EVERY WORD IS A WEAPON.

In 1571, England was a powder keg. Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by plotters at home and the great Catholic powers abroad. To defend the realm, her spymasters have built a new kind of arsenal: a network of spies armed not with daggers, but with ink and cipher.

Elias Thorne, a quiet...

History knows her as a sinner, a prostitute saved from seven demons. But the truth is far more revolutionary.

Mary of Magdala is no penitent. She is a brilliant and wealthy merchant who commands a fishing empire on the Sea of Galilee. Her life is one of calculated control and commercial success, but a mysterious, debilitating illness brings her...

The world knows the saint. This is the story of the man who lived in his shadow.

Forget the statues, the holidays, and the sanitized history. The Mahatma's Shadow is a relentless, unflinching look at Mohandas Gandhi as you've never seen him before: a brilliant strategist, a flawed father, and a moral absolutist whose unwavering principles came at...

In 1946, Sister Teresa heard God's voice in the darkness of a third-class train compartment: "Come be My light."

For the next fifty years, she would build a global empire of charity while experiencing only divine silence.

When young Sister Teresa walks into Calcutta's slums, she believes she's answering a holy calling. But as her Missionaries of...

The Noblest Cut

IS THE MOST HONOURABLE MAN IN ROME THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN SAVE THE REPUBLIC... OR DESTROY IT?

Marcus Junius Brutus was raised to be the embodiment of the Roman Republic. A philosopher of unwavering principle, a brilliant financier, and the heir to a legendary name, he is the man all of Rome watches. But he is trapped. Caught between...

In the haunting beauty of Vietnam, a retired veteran confronts the ghosts of his past—and something more. James Calloway's search for closure becomes a journey into the heart of memory, trauma, and the supernatural. As he investigates a long-buried massacre, the land itself seems to awaken, blurring the boundaries between the living and the...

He was a legend hiding in plain sight. A man of iron will who walked the line between justice and survival, his story forged in the crucible of the American West and then systematically erased from its history.

Born into slavery, Bass Reeves escaped to the unforgiving wilderness of Indian Territory, where he learned the languages of the tribes...