Journalist Theo Padnos was held for almost two years by Jabhat al-Nusra. He talks to Christiane Amanpour about his ordeal and how he managed to survive.
Sandra Aguebor is the first female mechanic in Nigeria and the founder of the Lady Mechanic Initiative, an organization that teaches women from diverse backgrounds how to fix cars and become financially independent. In Aguebor's garage, you’ll find tools to fix cars and so much more.
Would slavery have been abolished decades sooner? Could the Civil War have been avoided? Historian Thomas Fleming looks at what might have happened if Hamilton had lived.
Would nuclear catastrophe have ensued? Would JFK lived? Cold War historian Timothy Naftali explores what might have happened if the Cuban Missile Crisis had led to war.
Might the Civil Rights movement emerged decades sooner? Lincoln historian Harold Holzer offers his thoughts on what might have happened if Abraham Lincoln had lived.
Would FDR have dropped the atomic bomb? Would McCarthyism have been allowed to thrive? Yale Historian Beverly Gage ponders what might have happened if FDR had lived.
If you’re a sailor aboard a freighter in the Great Lakes, it’s very difficult to get ashore to shop for supplies or mail a letter. Luckily, there’s one small tugboat that has been delivering mail, packages, and goods to ships in these lakes for the past 142 years: the J.W. Westcott. Operating out of Detroit, the J.W. Westcott is the only floating ZIP code in the United States and it delivers its mail by the pail.