A boy, an old chief, and a debt that took a century to pay: Chief Joseph, the Bear Paw siege, and an unlikely friendship.

Frank Serpico wouldn't take the money everyone else took. For that, his own department left him to be shot.

Hitler ordered Paris destroyed, and the explosives were in place. One man refused to give the signal. Many others pushed him.

It came down to one state, one deadlocked chamber, and a 24-year-old with a red rose and his mother's letter in his pocket.

An Italian submarine captain sank an enemy ship, then risked his own boat to save its crew. Twice. Character is what remains.

Carnage, wreck and ruin: what John Paul Jones and a 21-year-old surgeon did after the battle reveals honor as a choice under pressure.

Trust in leaders is falling. John pairs Stephen M.R. Covey's The Speed of Trust with World War II leaders who earned it under fire.

A hard-drinking opportunist and Nazi Party member risked everything to save more than 1,000 Jews. John on the imperfect man behind Schindler's List.

From London rooftops during the Blitz to his reports on Senator McCarthy, Edward R. Murrow set a standard of honest reporting. John tells his story.

He volunteered to live among Hawaii's exiled leprosy patients on Molokai, served them for 16 years, and died of the disease himself.

A patriot lawyer agreed to defend the British soldiers who fired on a Boston crowd. John Adams risked his reputation for a fair trial.

Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat on December 1, 1955. Nine months earlier, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin did the same thing.