On tonight's episode of the PBS series "History Detectives," Matt Flynt will find out whether he has a piece of civil rights-era history. Actually, that's a bit of TV magic; Flynt already knows the ...

Face Artifact The Place: Mantoloking, New Jersey Found on the beach, a pebble in the sand with sculpted human features. To unlock this riddle, the team must travel through time, across borders and ...

In this lesson, students learn how the life of an enslaved person changed from the Antebellum period through Emancipation. They analyze primary source documents in order to create a timeline of an ...

When she was first told the proposed name for the new PBS program, Columbia professor Gwendolyn Wright thought it was "a little glib." But now she's happy to be one of the "History Detectives." "The ...

PBS invites fans to help solve the mystery, “Who is John F.?” with a pre-broadcast online story release at pbs.org/historydetectives Portland, OR [June 7, 2010 ...

This project will guide students though a project-based inquiry into one of history’s famous cold cases. Students will choose a mystery to investigate, seek out and analyze both primary and secondary ...

The 11th season premiere of "History Detectives," which has been reformatted to focus on one iconic mystery per episode, opens with a look at the April 27, 1865, explosion of the Mississippi steamboat ...

Detectives were in Butte Saturday trying to solve “the mystery of the Chinese opium scale.” Though this sounds like the title to a Hardy Boys Mystery book, it is actually a true mystery that promises ...