History Detectives

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7x1
PsychoPhone; War Dog Letter; Pancho Villa Watch Fob
Episode overview
Season 7 begins with a closer look at the "Psycho-Phone," a device presumed to have been built by Thomas Edison and was designed to communicate with the dead. Then, a WWII letter between .. show full overview
7x2
Manhattan Project Patent/Galleon Shipwreck/Creole Poems
Episode overview
Manhattan Project Patent - Could this drawing have been part of America's secret plans to fuel the atomic bomb? Galleon Shipwreck - Is this a piece of treasure from a Spanish galleon .. show full overview
7x3
St. Valentine's Day Massacre/Booth Letter/Cemetery Alarm
Episode overview
Items include a shotgun believed to have been used by a member of Al Capone's gang during the St. Valentine's Day Massacre; a threatening letter to President Andrew Jackson believed to .. show full overview
7x4
Sideshow Babies/Lubin Photos/Navajo Rug
Episode overview
A woman wonders whether her mother was used as an infant as part of the incubator expedition at the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago. Also, a look at the Siegmund Lubin Studios, which made .. show full overview
7x5
Tokyo Rose Recording; Crazy Horse Photo; WWII Diary
Episode overview
Items explored include a recording believed to be from the trial of Iva Toguri, better known Tokyo Rose, the Japanese American woman who made propaganda broadcasts for the Japanese .. show full overview
7x6
Amelia Earhart Plane/Fillmore Pardon/Boxcar Home
Episode overview
A Honolulu flight mechanic's grandson believes he possesses a piece of Amelia Earhart's airplane but needs help identifying it. Next, the 1851 presidential commutation of a death .. show full overview
7x7
Hindenburg Artifact/John Adams Book/Birthplace of Hip-Hop
Episode overview
A man from New Jersey claims to have the instrument panel from the Hindenburg in his possession, in which his family lore claims it came from the blimps 1937 crash site. Then, an .. show full overview
7x8
Mussolini Dagger, Liberia Letter, N.E.A.R. Device
Episode overview
A man from Nevada believes he holds a dagger which was owned by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, including a letter which indicates it was retrieved from Mussolini's apartment .. show full overview
7x9
WPA Mural Studies/George Washington Miniature/Japanese Balloon Bomb
Episode overview
Items look at include six paintings by Thelma Johnson Streat, which may have been mural studies commissioned by the WPA in the 1930s or '40s; a 1790 miniature color portrait of a "G. .. show full overview
7x10
Stalag 17 Portrait/Seadrome/Black Tom Shell
Episode overview
A woman from Arizona wants to find out the fate of the man who sketched a picture of her father while in a WWII P.O.W. camp in Krems, Austria. Next, the Seadrome was a floating airport .. show full overview
7x11
Duke Ellington Plates/Scottsboror Boys Stamp/Civil War Bridge
Episode overview
Duke Ellington Plates - Are these plates the first edition of Duke Ellington’s “Take the A Train”? "Scottsboro Boys" Stamp - Did a penny stamp help save the Scottsboro Boys from the .. show full overview
7x12
Shipwreck Cannons/Connecticut Farmhouse/Kahlil Gibran Painting
Episode overview
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 .. show full overview