SOUTH ATLANTIC

This region includes; Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia.

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3D Cuban Missile Crisis

Did this portable projection screen help save the Free World? ...More

Alcoholics Anonymous Letter

Is this letter from the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous proof of one man's contribution to this secretive society?...More

Atocha Spanish Silver

What is the meaning of these markings on a silver bar discovered in the wreck of the Spanish ship?...More

Black Star Line

A woman recently found two Black Star Line stock certificates, which had been purchased by her great grandfather in 1919...More

Black Tom Shell

Is this shell from a devastating act of foreign sabotage on American soil?...More

Blueprint Special

Did this record play a dramatic role in the Allied victory during the Second World War?...More

Body in the Basement

While on a dig, “The Lost Towns of Anne Arundel County” Project unearthed a rather surprising discovery...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

Calhoun Books

Do these books shed light on the thinking of one of the most powerful politicians in 19th-century America? ...More

Cannon House

Could a Maryland family's home once have been the headquarters for the kidnapper and slave trader Patty Cannon, coined "the most wicked woman in America?"...More

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

Civil War Bridge

Has a new discovery rewritten Civil War history?...More

Civil War POW Photos

Were these pictures made in a Civil War prison with a home-made camera? ..More

Coca-Cola Trade Card

Could this 1886 card which advertises a strange-sounding beverage be a unique piece of early Coca-Cola advertising? ...More

Early Monopoly

A man in Delaware has an old board game that bears a remarkable similarity to Monopoly, but was made 20 years before Parker Brothers patented their creation...More

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

General Lee Farewell Address

In the archives of a gentleman's club in this rural town is what is believed to be a signed copy of one of the most famous documents in the history of the Civil War - Confederate General Robert E. Lee's farewell address, "General Order #9," composed at Appomattox, Virginia, upon the surrender of his troops in April 1865...More

George Washington Portrait

Could a portrait passed down through a Frederick, Maryland family actually be an authentic portrait of the nation's first president, George Washington?...More

Great Mexican War Posters

Is this an advertisement for a film made by an eyewitness to the Mexican Revolution?...More

Highlander Badge

Could an amateur treasure diver really have turned up a possible Revolutionary War artifact? ...More

Hindenburg Artifact

Was this device snatched from the burning wreckage of the ill-fated zeppelin?  ...More

Japanese Balloon Bomb

Is this scrap of fabric evidence of a secret wartime attack on the United States' mainland?  ...More

Jefferson Pledge

Did the transformation of the nation's public education system begin with this $200 pledge? ...More

Kahlil Gibran Painting

Is this painting an unknown work by an immigrant poet whose words inspired an American generation?...More

Land Grant

A collector holds a fragment of aged parchment, which may be evidence of one of the first revolts against slavery in the Americas...More

Lee Family Doll

A retired school principal owns a beautiful, antique and rare "Greiner" doll...More

Liberia Letter

Does this letter help to trace one freed man’s dream to return to Africa?...More

Liberty Bell Pin

Was one of America’s most iconic symbols melted down into a mere memento? ...More

Lubin Photos

What do these photo albums reveal about the birth of the silver screen?...More

Monroe Letter

Does this letter link America's fifth President to the high seas piracy of U.S. merchant ships in the early 1800s?...More

Muhlenberg Robe

Was this robe torn off during a fiery sermon to rally congregants to the cause of the Revolutionary War? ...More

Mystery Crystal Cross

A crystal cross is discovered at an archeological dig of an old Spanish mission and the chief of the Apalachee Tribe wants to know if it could have been made centuries ago by his own ancestors...More

NC-4: First Across the Atlantic

Is this piece of fabric a remnant from the first transatlantic flight, eight years before Lindbergh?...More

Pete Gray Cartoon

Do these unsigned drawings from the golden age of comics tell the tale of a real life superhero? ...More

Red Hand Flag

Is this peculiar flag one that African-American soldiers marched under in the war to end all wars? ...More

Short Snorter

Was this British ten-shilling note witness to the fateful agreement that forged the alliance between America and Britain? ...More

Slave Banjo

A beautiful, worn banjo is purchased by a Chicago resident at an auction a few years ago...More

Slave Songbook

Are these tattered pages the earliest record of music created by slaves?...More

Survivor Camera

Did this antique camera save a Polish Jew during the Holocaust? ...More

Women's Suffrage Painting

What role did this watercolor painting play in securing women the right to vote?... More

WWII Diary

Does this diary hold the key to understanding the fate of a missing bomber pilot from World War II?...More