Discover the Extraordinary True Story of America’s First Free Black Community
In 1738, decades before the American Revolution, a former slave named Francisco Menéndez achieved something historians once thought impossible: he founded and commanded North America’s first legally sanctioned free Black settlement. Through groundbreaking archaeological...
The Most Wounded Warrior in British Military History
Shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear. Survived two plane crashes. Tunneled out of a prisoner-of-war camp. Lost an eye and a hand, then pulled off his own mangled fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them. His response to it all? “Frankly, I enjoyed the war.”
