Based on the research of Dr. Louis Pazgassian, a professor of Colonial North American and U.S. History and chair of Georgetown University’s history department, we're sharing the totally true facts of the First Thanksgiving, including a cast that includes Squanto, Massasoit, William and Mary Brewster, Edward and Susan Winslow, and the unheralded hero of the day, Olaf Dijksgeffen.

Ian Fleming created epic bad guys – Auric Goldfinger, Odd Job, Paco Scaramanga, Mr. Big… but in my mind, the best of them all was that Nehru-jacket wearing, scar-faced, kitty lover, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. I wondered if Fleming drew that character from his past in British Naval Intelligence. What I found, surprised and shocked me, as the basis for this character traced to our current times.

Back in 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico, a flying saucer crash landed in the desert. The surviving aliens, including a petulant toddler alien, and the government decided to make the event a social experiment. Problem is, it became entangled with Bugsy Siegel, Roy Cohn and a mechanic who is now telling all.

Totally True Facts #1 – The Totally True Story of Chicago's Bubbly Creek and a Guy Named Jeff Chłapowski, Based on Real Facts

Term limits are long overdue, and it's never been more clear that age limits also need to be imposed on our office holders. Here are some common sense ideas on how to change things, as well as some startling facts about the paychecks and pension plan for the lifetime appointees that sit as justices and judges in our courts.

My recent visit to the 9/11 Memorial was as moving as you might expect. I met someone there. Someone who, I also imagine, was a lot like me, her name was Valsa Raju, and now I remember her every day.

I recently visited both The National Baseball Hall of Fame and The Pro Football Hall of Fame. The difference in the feel of them was like going to a family reunion versus a corporate Powerpoint presentation…

The count on mass shootings and gun violence just keeps growing. I'm breaking down the arguments and offering realistic solutions on how to amend the 2nd amendment.

When Mark Davis started to look at the details of the Grimes sisters murders, an inconsistency in a person of interest’s account made him dig deeper… and zero in on the prime suspects.

When your dad and grandfather build you a still, there’s really only one path to follow. Alan Bishop, Master Alchemist at Spirits of French Lick, grew up in a family of moonshiners and made that his vocation.

Tomorrow is election day when we all go out and exercise our right to vote. But we didn’t always have that right. And since the very beginning of America, voter suppression has been an issue.

Having survived the Holocaust and escaped the yoke of Communism, Les and Eva Aigner’s history provides insights and perspective on what we’re witnessing today and a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.

How do we break through and out of our cycle of racism? Our Declaration of Independence doesn’t bury the lead. It starts with the core element of what this country is supposed to be about…

A couple recent books - On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides and Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice by Adam Makos - include and tell the story of Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner, an extraordinary tale of friendship and sacrifice.

Tom Tesmer served in Vietnam during 1969 and 1970, and then in the National Guard in the mid-70s. He shares his experience and how Vietnam impacted his life…