From its earliest days, Britain was an object of desire. Tacitus declared it " pretium victoriae "-- worth a conquest, the best compliment that could occur to a Roman. He'd never visited the shores bu...
This series is about the disappearance of something, religious faith. It's the story of what is often referred to as atheism , the history of the growing conviction that God doesn't exist. Given the f...
I can't imagine my life or anyone else’s without music. It's like a light in the darkness that never goes out. The blues takes you back to the place where it first came to life. There is an old Afri...
In the town of Yazd in southern Iran, a priest tends a sacred fire in the Zoroastrian fire temple. It’s said that this fire has been burning continuously for 2,000 years. Generation after generation...
The story of Noah building an ark to save his family and save thousands of animals from a flood which destroys all life on earth is an epic from many people's childhoods. It's a wonderful story found...
We used to be a nation of farmers. But now it’s less than two percent of the population in the United States. And so, a lot of us don’t know what it takes to grow food. Over 12 thousand years ago...
The pioneers of flight have captured public imagination, but the history of aviation is a catalogue of human tragedy and technical disaster. The catastrophic loss of the Hindenburg airship, and the dr...
The past 200 years in the West have seen staggering increases in wealth and economic opportunity, and yet, there have been no comparable increases in our level of happiness. Despite being so much rich...
