Christopher Boozell

One of America’s most influential presidents was a man who could not walk. The polio that struck Franklin Delano Roosevelt when he was a future political star did not diminish him. Instead, against all expectations, it was the agent that forged his...

There are notorious figures in history who have withstood the test of time, and then there is Hannibal Barca. This man stands in a unique category of his own because the name of Hannibal Barca not only went down in history; it changed the course of...

John Jay: Founding Father, first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Governor of New York, key architect of two vital treaties, abolitionist, and the father of American counterintelligence. Despite his enormous contributions to the...

Pirates dominate movie box office profits, serve as theme park entertainment, and occupy a place in popular culture that has long outlasted the era when they ruled the seas. Modern audiences—safe from the pistols and cutlasses of the men who sailed...

Suleiman the Magnificent, tenth sultan of the Ottoman Empire, may be an unfamiliar figure to many today. But in the sixteenth century, his military campaigns played a huge role in the shifting face of European politics. He was a man in search of...

The hunt is only beginning, and magic swirls within it keeping them both on the right path, and leading them astray… Malediction has claimed Princess Elodie of Zelnon and her friends. They must fight to escape even when it seems like they are living...

Vincent van Gogh is one of the world’s most famous artists, and his paintings are among the world’s most valuable. The archetypal starving artist, Vincent died aged just 37 by his own hand, poor, isolated, and, in his eyes, a failure. Yet, in...