History Detectives producers are hunting for great ideas. Do you have an intriguing item locked away in your closet? Executive Producer, Chris Bryson, offers these tips that will make your submission ...

Our hosts have enviable jobs. An 8th grade fan recently took notice of this and wrote: I am VERY interested in finding a career in history. I would love to go around the country solving the unsolved ...

Use this lesson to help students deconstruct an episode of “History Detectives: Special Investigations.” The “Viewing Guide” allows students to map out the steps that the History Detectives follow to ...

Topics include the controversial segregation history of Grand Rapids schools, local women’s suffrage efforts, indigenous ...

For 10 seasons our viewers asked us to solve the puzzles behind their historic objects and artifacts. Did a silicon chip bring art to the moon? Do we have the guitar Bob Dylan used to start a rock and ...

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 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Anyone can be a history detective! Participants learned how history experts at the Smithsonian used important social-emotional learning skills ...

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 ...

No callers are identified. No conversations are recorded. No phone records are kept. Now speak clearly and when you are finished say: 'Go ahead'.