History Detectives - Season 6

History Detectives - Season 6

Season 6

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Episodes10
DatesJun 30, 2008 - Sep 15, 2008
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Episodes

WWII Diary/Annie Oakley Coin/1856 Mormon Tale
Season 6Episode 160 min

WWII Diary/Annie Oakley Coin/1856 Mormon Tale

WWII Diary: Does this diary hold the key to understanding the fate of a missing bomber pilot from World War II? Annie Oakley Coin: Was this coin a target for one of the Wild West's most popular female sharpshooters? 1856 Mormon Tale: Is this tattered book a true account of female slavery in the old West?
Jun 30, 2008
Red Hand Flag/Seth Eastman Painting/Isleton Tong
Season 6Episode 260 min

Red Hand Flag/Seth Eastman Painting/Isleton Tong

Red Hand Flag: Is this peculiar flag one that African-American soldiers marched under in the war to end all wars? Seth Eastman Painting: Is this painting an original depiction of Native American life from one of the premiere painters of the American West? Isleton Tong: Was this building a safe haven for persecuted immigrants, or a hub for organized crime?
Jul 7, 2008
Japanese Balloon Bomb/Society Circus Program/Camp David Letter
Season 6Episode 360 min

Japanese Balloon Bomb/Society Circus Program/Camp David Letter

Japanese Balloon Bomb: Is this scrap of fabric evidence of a secret wartime attack on the United States' mainland? Society Circus Program: Why are some of New York's wealthiest planning a high society circus at the very depth of the Great Depression? Camp David Letter: Could a box found in a dumpster hold information about the founding of a top-secret Presidential retreat?
Jul 14, 2008
China Marine Jacket/Airstream Caravan/Lincoln Forgery
Season 6Episode 460 min

China Marine Jacket/Airstream Caravan/Lincoln Forgery

China Marine Jacket: Can the symbols on this unusual item of clothing identify a marine who may have witnessed a Chinese paradise tumbling into disaster? Airstream Caravan: Was this mobile home part of a modern-day wagon train halfway across the world? Lincoln Forgery: Could this piece of sheet music have come from Abraham Lincoln's private collection?
Jul 21, 2008
Hindenburg Artifact/Bonus Army Stamp/Dempsey Fight Bell
Season 6Episode 560 min

Hindenburg Artifact/Bonus Army Stamp/Dempsey Fight Bell

Hindenburg Artifact Was this device snatched from the burning wreckage of the ill-fated zeppelin? Bonus Army Stamp: Is this stamp connected to a moment when the U.S. Army advanced with fixed bayonets against fellow soldiers in the nation’s capital? Dempsey Fight Bell: Is this the bell that sat ringside at the world's first boxing superstar's legendary match?
Jul 28, 2008
GAR Photograph/Bill Pickett Saddle/Hiter Films
Season 6Episode 660 min

GAR Photograph/Bill Pickett Saddle/Hiter Films

GAR Photograph: How did two African Americans come to be part of this photograph of about 20 older white men in Reconstructionist-era America? Bill Pickett Saddle: Did this saddle ride into cowboy history with one of rodeo's most daring innovators? Hitler Films: Could these rusting film canisters contain unknown footage of one of the 20th century's most heinous murderers?
Aug 4, 2008
Black Tom Shell/USS Olympia Glass/Front Street Blockhouse
Season 6Episode 760 min

Black Tom Shell/USS Olympia Glass/Front Street Blockhouse

Black Tom Shell: Is this shell from a devastating act of foreign sabotage on American soil? USS Olympia Glass: Could this farmhouse door have sailed into battle in one of the country's greatest naval victories? Front Street Blockhouse: Did this unassuming house once protect an American colony from attack almost 300 years ago?
Aug 11, 2008
John Adams Book/Mankato Spoon/NC-4
Season 6Episode 860 min

John Adams Book/Mankato Spoon/NC-4

John Adams Book: Do these tattered pages open the book on a President who built a nation even as his own son fell into ruin? Mankato Spoon: What does this delicate silver spoon have to do with the largest mass execution in American history? NC-4: First Across the Atlantic: Is this piece of fabric a remnant from the first transatlantic flight, eight years before Lindbergh?
Aug 18, 2008
Shipwreck Cannons/Connecticut Farmhouse/Kahil Gibran Painting
Season 6Episode 960 min

Shipwreck Cannons/Connecticut Farmhouse/Kahil Gibran Painting

Shipwreck Cannons: Are these the last remains of a navy schooner that fought in a border dispute with the mighty British Empire? Connecticut Farmhouse: How is this Connecticut farmhouse connected to the assassination of a Russian tsar? Kahlil Gibran Painting: Is this painting an unknown work by an immigrant poet whose words inspired an American generation?
Sep 8, 2008
Blueprint Special/Monroe Letter/Atocha Spanish Silver
Season 6Episode 1060 min

Blueprint Special/Monroe Letter/Atocha Spanish Silver

Blueprint Special: Did this record play a dramatic role in the Allied victory during the Second World War? Monroe Letter: Does this letter link America's fifth President to the high seas piracy of U.S. merchant ships in the early 1800s? Atocha Spanish Silver: What is the meaning of these markings on a silver bar discovered in the wreck of the Spanish ship?
Sep 15, 2008

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