MID ATLANTIC

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Amos 'n' Andy Record

Is this aluminum record with the words "Amos & Andy" hand-written on its label an early recording of the old-time radio series?...More

Boarding House Flag

A historical society wants to know, did this flag once save a boarding house from being burnt down?...More

Broadway Ballet Shoes

A 13-year old ballet dancer in Long Island, New York, recently learned from her grandmother that her deceased grandfather once made ballet shoes for many of the top dancers in the 1920s and 30s, including the legendary Ziegfeld star Marilyn Miller...More

Cast Iron Eagle

Did this 12-foot-high eagle once grace the old Grand Central Station in Manhattan? ...More

Coney Island Lions

A New York resident recently purchased a pair of giant zinc lion's claws from the estate sale of a deceased collector of amusement park memorabilia...More

Continental Currency

Could this $6 bill represent America’s first declaration of its independence? ...More

Dempsey Fight Bell

Is this the bell that sat ringside at the world's first boxing superstar's legendary match? ...More

Flint Lock Rifle

Mercer County Historical Society has in its possession a late 18th century flint-lock rifle, which, according to local lore, once belonged to legendary Tory bandit Moses Doan, and was recovered after he was killed in a raid of his hideout in 1783...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

Goering Gun

In the dying days of the Third Reich, Hermann Goering, the former head of the mighty German Luftwaffe, was holed up in his castle in the German countryside, addicted to opium and terrified of capture by the advancing Allies...More

Hitler Films

Could these rusting film canisters contain unknown footage of one of the 20th century's most heinous murderers? ...More

Home of Lincoln Assassination Plot

Did John Wilkes Booth, the infamous assassin of Abraham Lincoln, spend time in this house?...More

Independence Trumpet

Is a Pennsylvania man's trumpet, which he bought at a local auction, somehow tied to the Revolutionary War?...More

Jim Thorpe Ticket

A pair of sports tickets from 1927 are discovered in a used book...More

Lafayette China

Hearts and arrows blaze across an unusual set of china at the Powel House in Philadelphia...More

Leisurama Homes

The grandson of Andrew Geller, the designer of Leisureama homes, is trying to find some of his grandfather's products in Florida...More

Liberty Bell Pin

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

Lindbergh Engine

Two brothers from New Jersey grew up listening to their uncle's tall tales of adventures in the skies...More

Little Big Horn Bayonet

The family home of the famous military hero General Edward Godfrey holds a surprising secret...More

Lost Musical Treasure

A man in Port Washington, Wisconsin who owns a pair of metal "masters" that were used to press shellac records in the 1920s and 30s has a hunch they could represent surviving fragments of a lost moment in American musical history...More

Manhattan Project Letter

Did this letter help persuade President Harry S. Truman to change policy in the post war era? ...More

Muhlenberg Robe

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

NC-4: First Across the Atlantic

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

Nesbit Portrait

A woman in New Jersey owns a portrait she believes is a lost masterpiece by one of America's greatest illustrators and artists, Howard Chandler Christy...More

Nora Holt Autograph Book

Why did this Harlem Renaissance luminary own a book bearing the signatures of Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge?...More

Old Fire Station

Did President Ulysses S. Grant stop by a Morristown, New Jersey, firehouse on the centennial of America?..More

Pebble in the Sand

Just a pebble in the sand–with sculpted human features...More

Pete Gray Cartoon

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

Philadelphia Freedom Paper

A Bronx, New York man with a longtime interest in African-American history recently purchased an intriguing document at a flea market that he believes to be a “freedom paper” for an African-American man named John Jubilee Jackson...More

Pop Lloyd Baseball Stadium

Why was a baseball field in Atlantic City, New Jersey, named after an African-American ballplayer in a time of intense racial tension?...More

Preston Brooks' Riding Crop

A Long Island man owns a beautiful old riding crop he claims was given to an ancestor by the President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis...More

Prison Plaque

In the heart of Philadelphia, stands the abandoned Eastern State Penitentiary building. Founded by Quakers in 1829, this castle-like structure set new standards for prisons across the country with its progressive ideas for rehabilitation...More

Quaker Map

Did this faded map once guide slaves to freedom on the underground railroad? ...More

Rebel Whiskey Flask

It’s the Fall of 1794, and trouble is brewing in western Pennsylvania. Thousands of protestors are daring to fight back against the newly established U.S. government, protesting a tax on whiskey...More

Shippen Golf Club

A children’s golf foundation recently received a surprising donation, an antique golf club...More

Short Snorter

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

Thomas Edison's House

Was this home designed and built by inventor Thomas Edison...More

USS Thresher

How are these documents connected to a nuclear submarine, which sank with all hands during the height of the Cold War?...More

Ventriloquist's Dummy

Did "Sam" the first black ventriloquist dummy, transform how Americans viewed race in the early 20th century?...More