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Did these gloves belong to Charles Lindbergh?
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Lindbergh Gloves
Did these aviator gloves belong to Charles Lindbergh from his day flying a mail route in the mid 1920s?

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SEASON 6

History Detectives returned for a brand new season on Monday June 30, 2008.

This season you, the audience, can become a history detective by getting involved with our new exciting feature - Web Investigations. We post a mystery and you help us solve it. Each week, updates and new leads - provided by the audience and our own History Detectives - will be released. The final results will be announced online at the end of the investigation.

For information on all the previous seasons investigations you can browse the Archive.

 

EPISODE 9 - September 8, 2008

Shipwreck Cannons
Are these the last remains of a navy schooner that fought in a border dispute with the mighty British Empire?...More
Connecticut Farmhouse
How is this Connecticut farmhouse connected to the assassination of a Russian tsar?...More
Kahlil Gibran Painting
Is this painting an unknown work by an immigrant poet whose words inspired an American generation?...More

 

EPISODE 8 - August 18, 2008

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?...More
Mankato Spoon
What does this delicate silver spoon have to do with the largest mass execution in American history?...More
NC-4: First Across the Atlantic
Is this piece of fabric a remnant from the first transatlantic flight, eight years before Lindbergh?...More

 

EPISODE 7 - August 11, 2008

Black Tom Shell
Is this shell from a devastating act of foreign sabotage on American soil?...More
USS Olympia Glass
Could this farmhouse door have sailed into battle in one of the country's greatest naval victories? ...More
Front Street Blockhouse
Did this unassuming house once protect an American colony from attack almost 300 years ago? ...More

 

EPISODE 6 - August 4, 2008

GAR Photograph
How did two African Americans come to be part of this photograph of about 20 older white men in Reconstructionist-era America?...More
Bill Pickett Saddle
Did this saddle ride into cowboy history with one of rodeo's most daring innovators? ...More
Hitler Films
Could these rusting film canisters contain unknown footage of one of the 20th century's most heinous murderers? ...More

 

EPISODE 5 - July 28, 2008

Hindenburg Artifact
Was this device snatched from the burning wreckage of the ill-fated zeppelin?  ...More
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? ...More
Dempsey Fight Bell
Is this the bell that sat ringside at the world's first boxing superstar's legendary match? ...More

 

EPISODE 4 - July 21, 2008

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?  ...More
Airstream Caravan
Was this mobile home part of a modern-day wagon train halfway across the world? ...More
Lincoln Forgery
Could this piece of sheet music have come from Abraham Lincoln's private collection? ...More

 

EPISODE 3 - July 14, 2008

Japanese Balloon Bomb
Is this scrap of fabric evidence of a secret wartime attack on the United States' mainland?  ...More
Society Circus Program
Why are some of New York's wealthiest planning a high society circus at the very depth of the Great Depression? ...More
Camp David Letter
Could a box found in a dumpster hold information about the founding of a top-secret Presidential retreat? ...More

 

EPISODE 2 - July 7, 2008

Red Hand Flag
Is this peculiar flag one that African-American soldiers marched under in the war to end all wars? ...More
Seth Eastman Painting
Is this painting an original depiction of Native American life from one of the premiere painters of the American West? ...More
Isleton Tong
Was this building a safe haven for persecuted immigrants, or a hub for organized crime? ...More

 

EPISODE 1 - JUNE 30, 2008

WWII Diary
Does this diary hold the key to understanding the fate of a missing bomber pilot from World War II?...More
Annie Oakley Coin
Was this coin a target for one of the Wild West's most popular female sharpshooters?...More
1856 Mormon Tale
Is this tattered book a true account of female slavery in the old West? ... More



Don’t forget you can watch a video trailer of Season 6, here.