Woodward and Bernstein blow open the Watergate scandal, actors/brothers Edwin and John Wilkes Booth engage in a tragic feud and Elvis crashes The White House to meet President Richard Nixon.

Al Capone is done in by an easily solved problem, Abraham Lincoln catches a break and police battle with protesters during the Haymarket Riot of 1886.

John Pemberton invents Coca-Cola (from wine and cocaine!), the F.B.I tries to take down Martin Luther King Jr. and Stetson Kennedy infiltrates the Klu Klux Klan.

Patty Hearst gets kidnapped and brainwashed, Mark Twain flees the city in fear (and finds his unlikely first hit story) and Mary Ellen Pleasant supports abolitionists with her business earnings.

The Kellogg brothers litigate over their famous surname (and the newly profitable discovery of corn flakes), Ralph Nader goes to war with General Motors and Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle go from best friends to bitter rivals.

Dolly Parton has to leave the man who made her famous, competing lawyers clash in the Scopes Monkey Trial, and Lewis and Clark explore the dangerous West.

Teddy Roosevelt makes a name for himself, hold-outs fight to the bitter end at The Alamo, and Billy the Kid goes on the run from lawman Pat Garrett.

Scientist Percy Julian overcomes racial barriers, Claudette Colvin refuses to give up her bus seat months before Rosa Parks's famous protest, and Joe Louis fights German boxer Max Schmeling. Featuring Jordan Peele, Terry Crews and "Weird Al" Yankovic.

Alan Freed becomes one of the first radio DJs to broadcast rock 'n' roll, Kris Kristofferson gets his big break with some help from his hero, Johnny Cash, and Sylvia Robinson creates The Sugarhill Gang. Featuring Johnny Knoxville, Jack McBrayer and Retta.