History Detectives

History Detectives

Blueprint Special/Monroe Letter/Atocha Spanish Silver (6x10)


: 15, 2008

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?

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