Benjamin Franklin var en multibegåvad amerikansk grundare - men han ägde också slavar, besökte sexklubbar och var en misstänkt seriemördare. I det här avsnittet av vår nya serie avslöjar historikern David Eisenbach föga kända detaljer om Franklins förflutna, och kastar nytt ljus över Franklins excentriska beteenden och hur de gjorde det möjligt för honom att hjälpa till att rädda den amerikanska revolutionen.

Under amerikanska inbördeskriget var Abraham Lincoln var fasta ledaren, bara för att bli skjuten i sin glans dagar på Ford's Theatre. Den frispråkige historikern David Eisenbach fördjupar sig i Lincolns privatliv och avslöjar att den store befriaren var rasist, hade problem med kvinnor och faktiskt njöt av att ligga med män.

J. Edgar Hoover ran the FBI for almost 40 years and was America's most respected, and feared, lawman. Author and historian David Eisenbach digs into Hoover's buried secrets to reveal that Hoover was also a neighborhood peeping tom, a sexual blackmailer, and created the world's first Gay Spy Ring.

The OK Corral was the site of the world's most famous Wild West gunfight. But the shootout didn't actually happen at the OK Corral, Wyatt Earp was more of a pimp than a lawman, and Doc Holliday didn't die with his boots on. Historian David Eisenbach heads straight to the scene of the crime to unearth what you don't know about the gunfight at the OK Corral.

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were Washington's first couple with a New Deal. But historian and author David Eisenbach reveals that the Roosevelts' marriage was a political arrangement of epic proportions. FDR had a long-running affair with his wife's secretary, and Eleanor was a closet lesbian in love with a female news reporter.

Mormons built a politically powerful religion based on family, faith and clean living. But they also built Las Vegas, they owned brothels, and they copied some of their rituals from the Freemasons. These are just some of the secrets author and Historian David Eisenbach uncovers.

Pablo Escobar was Colombia's king of cocaine, a man his own government was afraid to touch. But he also violated the dead, set fire to millions in cash to keep warm and actually helped the US hunt down Osama Bin Laden. Outspoken historian David Eisenbach probes the world of narcotrafficking and uncovers things you didn't know about Escobar.

George S. Patton var andra världskrigets största stridande general. Hans pansartrupper rullade till fantastiska och viktiga segrar i Nordafrika och Europa. Men Patton led av dyslexi, han bar aldrig de där pärlskaftade pistolerna, och han var till och med en internationell smugglare. Maverick-historikern David Eisenbach avslöjar Pattons hemligheter.

Caligula was a notoriously sadistic Roman Emperor with a wanton disregard for life. Roman citizens, even those with money and power of their own, lived in fear of Caligula's cruelty. In this episode, historian David Eisenbach reveals that Caligula also walked on water, played craps to make Rome rich, and engaged in incest with his own sisters.

Adolph Hitler var historiens mest beryktade antisemit, så envetet inställd på världsherravälde att hans nazistiska krigsmaskin tillfogade miljoner oskyldiga offer död och förstörelse. Historikern David Eisenbach avslöjar att Hitler hade varit hemlös, att han fruktade sex med kvinnor och han var frukten av incestförhållande.

They were the bad boys of popular music in the 1960's. But contrary to the usual stories, Frank Sinatra had nothing to do with starting the Rat Pack, Dean Martin was never really drunk to begin with, and Judy Garland wanted Sinatra so badly she stalked him. Author and historian David Eisenbach brings you all the cool details.