PBS invites fans to help solve the mystery, “Who is John F.?” with a pre-broadcast online story release at pbs.org/historydetectives Portland, OR [June 7, 2010 ...

Spotlight on a vintage WWI cartridge and what it reveals about the earliest days of the struggle against communist Russia. Students share the stories behind a favorite object or family artifact and ...

Our investigations have rewritten history, reunited people with their past and given voice to unknown historical figures. But we couldn’t have solved any of our mysteries without access to the many ...

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 ...

In this lesson, students investigate a historical mystery—the 1865 explosion of the steamship Sultana—by analyzing a collection of primary and secondary source documents. They work in cooperative ...

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 ...

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 ...

Puzzles involving the Chisholm Trail, Houdini posters and a flag that may have draped the coffin of President William McKinley, assassinated in 1901. Included: determining how far south the Chisholm ...