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After the death of his spouse, Thomas Lincoln brings home a new wife. Young Abe resents his new stepmother, but she slowly wins him over.

An old man who fancies himself Emperor of the United and Protector of Mexico becomes an object of ridicule in his home town of San Francisco.

When a mailman in Cuba learns that his country has no entries in the 1904 Olympic Games, he vows to enter the Marathon and win.

In Colonial America, publishers could be jailed for defamation even if they spoke the truth. This is the story of Andrew Hamilton and the Zenger case.

In Paris during the French Revolution, a doctor assigned to an asylum is shocked at the conditions patients are forced to live in and seeks to reform.