Elizabeth Mann

A history of the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza and the civilization that produced it.

Relates the history of how the Panama Canal was planned and built, including the political, international, and health aspects of getting the project finished on time.

Examines the building of the Great Wall of China and the thousands of years of conflict that preceded it.

The Statue of Liberty pays homage to what is best about America, but it was the idea of two Frenchmen who lived under the harsh rule of Emperor Napoleon III. Edouard Laboulaye and Frederic Auguste Bartholdi wanted to remind their countrymen that tyranny is not inevitable, that citizens have rights which no government can take from them. It took two decades of planning, fundraising, and building for their dreams to cross the ocean And now the statue...

A history of the Maya Indians in the city of Tikal, founded in 800 B.C.

For better or worse, times are changing in Deadwood, and the transformation from camp to town is imminent. In an era of hard decisions and brutal power struggles among the camp's founders, they learn the hard way that fortune comes with a price.