MARLBORO - A couple of months after he signed the Declaration of Independence, Richard Stockton was on the run as the British Army marauded through New Jersey. He holed up at the home of a friend, Col ...

The Civil War (1861-1865) is America’s bloodiest war to date. It cost close to 1,100,000 casualties and claimed over 620,000 lives. These lesson plans are based on History Detectives episodes that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Historians love to tout an association with detectives and mysteries. From the television shows History Detectives and History’s Greatest Mysteries to the podcast Mystery History, characterizing ...

A collector who may possess part of the first talking movie; a Cape Cod beachcomber's discovery of what may be a section of the first transatlantic cable. Also: the story behind sketches of five- and ...