Investigations

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1856 Mormon Tale Season 6, Episode 1 Is this tattered book a true account of female slavery in the old West?
Annie Oakley Coin Season 6, Episode 1 Was this coin a target for one of the Wild West's most popular female sharpshooters?
WWII Diary Season 6, Episode 1 Does this diary hold the key to understanding the fate of a missing bomber pilot from World War II?
Red Hand Flag Season 6, Episode 2 Is this peculiar flag one that African-American soldiers marched under in the war to end all wars?
Seth Eastman Painting Season 6, Episode 2 Is this painting a true depiction of Native American life from one of the premiere painters of the American West?
Isleton Tong Season 6, Episode 2 Was this building a safe haven for persecuted immigrants, or a hub for organized crime?
Camp David Letter Season 6, Episode 3 Could a box found in a dumpster hold information about the founding of a top-secret Presidential retreat?
Japanese Balloon Bomb Season 6, Episode 3 Is this scrap of fabric evidence of a secret wartime attack on the United States' mainland?
Society Circus Program Season 6, Episode 3 Why are some of New York's wealthiest planning a circus at the depth of the Great Depression?
Airstream Caravan Season 6, Episode 4 Was this mobile home part of a modern-day wagon train halfway across the world?
China Marine Jacket Season 6, Episode 4 Can the symbols on this jacket identify a marine who may have witnessed paradise tumbling into disaster?
Lincoln Forgery Season 6, Episode 4 Could this piece of sheet music have come from Abraham Lincoln's private collection?
Bonus Army Stamp Season 6, Episode 5 Is this stamp connected to a moment when the U.S. Army fought fellow soldiers in the nation’s capital?
Dempsey Fight Bell Season 6, Episode 5 Is this the bell that sat ringside at the world's first boxing superstar's legendary match?
Hindenburg Artifact Season 6, Episode 5 Was this device snatched from the burning wreckage of the ill-fated zeppelin?
GAR Photograph Season 6, Episode 6 How did two African Americans come to be part of this photograph in Reconstructionist-era America?
Bill Picket Saddle Season 6, Episode 6 Did this saddle ride into cowboy history with one of rodeo's most daring innovators?
Hitler Films Season 6, Episode 6 Could these rusting film canisters contain unknown footage of one of the 20th century's most heinous murderers?
Black Tom Shell Season 6, Episode 7 Is this shell from a devastating act of foreign sabotage on American soil?
Front Street Blockhouse Season 6, Episode 7 Did this unassuming house protect an American colony from attack almost 300 years ago?
U.S.S Olympia Glass Season 6, Episode 7 Could this farmhouse door have sailed into battle in one of the country's greatest naval victories?
John Adams Book Season 6, Episode 8 Was this book a gift from John Adams to his son?
Mankato Spoon Season 6, Episode 8 What does this delicate silver spoon have to do with the largest mass execution in American history?
NC-4: First Across The Atlantic Season 6, Episode 8 Is this piece of fabric a remnant from the first transatlantic flight?
Kahlil Gibran Painting Season 6, Episode 9 Is this painting an unknown work by an immigrant poet whose words inspired an American generation?
Shipwreck Cannons Season 6, Episode 9 Are these the last remains of a navy schooner that fought in a border dispute with the mighty British Empire?
Connecticut Farmhouse Season 6, Episode 9 Why did this Connecticut farmhouse have so many owners in such a short space of time?
Atocha Spanish Silver Season 6, Episode 10 What are these markings on a silver bar discovered in the wreck of a Spanish ship?
Blueprint Special Season 6, Episode 10 Did this record play a dramatic role in the Allied victory during the Second World War?
Monroe Letter Season 6, Episode 10 Does this letter link America's President to the high seas piracy of U.S. merchant ships in the early 1800s?
Birthplace Of Hip Hop Season 6, Episode 11 Did this Bronx apartment building give birth to a culture that now spans the globe?
Josh White Guitar Season 6, Episode 11 What role did this guitar play in the transformation of the music industry in the 1960's?
Slave Songbook Season 6, Episode 11 Are these tattered pages the earliest record of music created by slaves?