Elizabeth Mann

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

Discusses the origins, construction, completion, uses, history, and eventual ruin of the Parthenon.

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 Frédéric 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...

Describes the history of the Inca civilization and the construction of the city of Machu Picchu in the Andes Mountains.

Describes the engineering, construction, and social and historical contexts of the Hoover Dam.

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