History Detectives - Season 6
Season 6
Network
Episodes10
DatesJun 30, 2008 - Sep 15, 2008
Episodes
Season 6Episode 160 min
WWII Diary/Annie Oakley Coin/1856 Mormon Tale
WWII Diary: Does this diary hold the key to understanding the fate of a missing bomber pilot from World War II?
Annie Oakley Coin: Was this coin a target for one of the Wild West's most popular female sharpshooters?
1856 Mormon Tale: Is this tattered book a true account of female slavery in the old West?
Jun 30, 2008
Season 6Episode 260 min
Red Hand Flag/Seth Eastman Painting/Isleton Tong
Red Hand Flag: Is this peculiar flag one that African-American soldiers marched under in the war to end all wars?
Seth Eastman Painting: Is this painting an original depiction of Native American life from one of the premiere painters of the American West?
Isleton Tong: Was this building a safe haven for persecuted immigrants, or a hub for organized crime?
Jul 7, 2008
Season 6Episode 360 min
Japanese Balloon Bomb/Society Circus Program/Camp David Letter
Japanese Balloon Bomb: Is this scrap of fabric evidence of a secret wartime attack on the United States' mainland?
Society Circus Program: Why are some of New York's wealthiest planning a high society circus at the very depth of the Great Depression?
Camp David Letter: Could a box found in a dumpster hold information about the founding of a top-secret Presidential retreat?
Jul 14, 2008
Season 6Episode 460 min
China Marine Jacket/Airstream Caravan/Lincoln Forgery
China Marine Jacket: Can the symbols on this unusual item of clothing identify a marine who may have witnessed a Chinese paradise tumbling into disaster?
Airstream Caravan: Was this mobile home part of a modern-day wagon train halfway across the world?
Lincoln Forgery: Could this piece of sheet music have come from Abraham Lincoln's private collection?
Jul 21, 2008
Season 6Episode 560 min
Hindenburg Artifact/Bonus Army Stamp/Dempsey Fight Bell
Hindenburg Artifact Was this device snatched from the burning wreckage of the ill-fated zeppelin?
Bonus Army Stamp: Is this stamp connected to a moment when the U.S. Army advanced with fixed bayonets against fellow soldiers in the nation’s capital?
Dempsey Fight Bell: Is this the bell that sat ringside at the world's first boxing superstar's legendary match?
Jul 28, 2008
Season 6Episode 660 min
GAR Photograph/Bill Pickett Saddle/Hiter Films
GAR Photograph: How did two African Americans come to be part of this photograph of about 20 older white men in Reconstructionist-era America?
Bill Pickett Saddle: Did this saddle ride into cowboy history with one of rodeo's most daring innovators?
Hitler Films: Could these rusting film canisters contain unknown footage of one of the 20th century's most heinous murderers?
Aug 4, 2008
Season 6Episode 760 min
Black Tom Shell/USS Olympia Glass/Front Street Blockhouse
Black Tom Shell: Is this shell from a devastating act of foreign sabotage on American soil?
USS Olympia Glass: Could this farmhouse door have sailed into battle in one of the country's greatest naval victories?
Front Street Blockhouse: Did this unassuming house once protect an American colony from attack almost 300 years ago?
Aug 11, 2008
Season 6Episode 860 min
John Adams Book/Mankato Spoon/NC-4
John Adams Book: Do these tattered pages open the book on a President who built a nation even as his own son fell into ruin?
Mankato Spoon: What does this delicate silver spoon have to do with the largest mass execution in American history?
NC-4: First Across the Atlantic: Is this piece of fabric a remnant from the first transatlantic flight, eight years before Lindbergh?
Aug 18, 2008
Season 6Episode 960 min
Shipwreck Cannons/Connecticut Farmhouse/Kahil Gibran Painting
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 farmhouse connected to the assassination of a Russian tsar?
Kahlil Gibran Painting: Is this painting an unknown work by an immigrant poet whose words inspired an American generation?
Sep 8, 2008
Season 6Episode 1060 min
Blueprint Special/Monroe Letter/Atocha Spanish Silver
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?
Sep 15, 2008
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