On Dec. 5, 1955, in one of the early civil rights actions in the South, Black Americans declared a boycott of city buses in Montgomery, Ala., demanding seating on an equal basis with white people.

Conan the Barbarian is nothing if not an experienced traveler. As creator Rober E. Howard famously wrote, Conan is destined "to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.” Conan's ...