Watch the opening scene of The Gilded Age.
Watch Chapter 1 of Roads to Memphis.
Henry George’s message about the haves and the have nots helped ignite a movement that swept the nation.
Jack Miley, sports columnist for the New York Daily News, admitted he underestimated Max Schmeling in 1936.
Champion boxers were some of the best paid athletes in the world — but the businessmen behind the bouts saw the greatest profits.
Boxing manager Joe Jacobs was an unstoppable public relations dynamo.
Roxborough appeared to Louis as "well encased in dignity and legitimacy." Roxborough saw in Louis the chance to make big money.
Read the stories of the 1936 and 1938 Louis–Schmeling fights, as recalled by the boxers in their autobiographies.
From Jack Johnson to Joe Louis, black athletes challenged the color line in America.
A lightweight at 135 pounds, Blackburn fought well against larger men.
Jack Dempsey's boxing style consisted of constantly bobbing and weaving, and his attacks were furious and sustained.
When Schmeling saw a film of a heavyweight championship fight in his early teenage years, he was hooked.
