Featured Investigation Civil War Sabotage?
The steamship Sultana exploded one night in 1865, killing more than 1,800 people. Was the disaster a result of Civil War sabotage?
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Old Fire Station
Season 1, Episode 1
Did President Ulysses S. Grant stop by a New Jersey firehouse on the centennial of America?
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Pebble in the Sand
Season 1, Episode 1
Is this rock found on a beach a link to an ancient civilization or just another pebble in the sand?
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Pop Lloyd Baseball Field
Season 1, Episode 1
Why was this baseball field named after an African-American ballplayer in a time of racial tension?
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Movie Palace
Season 1, Episode 2
Is this small Wisconsin town theater the country's first great movie palace?
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Bonnie & Clyde's Bullets
Season 1, Episode 2
Are these the bullets that ended one of the most infamous crime-sprees in American history?
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Sears Home
Season 1, Episode 2
Might an Ohio couple's residence be a long-forgotten Sears home?
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Jigsaw Puzzle
Season 1, Episode 3
Does this puzzle depict a real event - women playing contact sports in the late 19th century?
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Whaling Ship
Season 1, Episode 3
Might a ship docked in Mystic Seaport, hold secrets to the Underground Railroad?
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Witch's House
Season 1, Episode 3
Could this house have once belonged to a woman executed during the Salem Witch trials?
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Independence Trumpet
Season 1, Episode 4
Is a Pennsylvania man's trumpet somehow tied to the Revolutionary War?
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Cannon House
Season 1, Episode 4
Could this family home once have been the headquarters of the kidnapper and slave trader Patty Cannon?
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George Washington Portrait
Season 1, Episode 4
Could this be an authentic portrait of the nation's first president?
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Napolean's Sword
Season 1, Episode 5
Did Napoleon bestow this sword as a gift to a brave ancestor of a St. Martinville family?
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General Lee's Farewell Address
Season 1, Episode 5
Could this be a signed copy of one of the most famous documents in the history of the Civil War?
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Natchez House
Season 1, Episode 5
How did a free man of color come to own this house twelve years before emancipation?
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John Brown Letters
Season 1, Episode 6
How is this woman in Sacramento related to John Brown, the 19th-century abolitionist?
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Japanese House
Season 1, Episode 6
How did a Japanese house come to be at the San Francisco World's Fair just months before WWII began?
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Chinese Poems
Season 1, Episode 6
Who were the authors of the poems describing bitterness and misery on the Angel Island detention center walls?
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Lafitte's Spyglass
Season 1, Episode 7
Did this spyglass really belong to a fearless cutthroat pirate?
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Railroad Station
Season 1, Episode 7
Is a disused depot the first railroad station in Texas?
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Mexican Currency
Season 1, Episode 7
What role did this money play in the Mexican Revolution?
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Boarding House Flag
Season 1, Episode 8
Did this flag once save a boarding house from being burned down at the height of the Civil War?
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Home of Lincoln Assassination Plot
Season 1, Episode 8
Did the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln begin in this New York City building?
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Ventriloquist Dummy
Season 1, Episode 8
How did an African-American ventriloquist act become so successful in a time of racial unrest?
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Revolutionary War Poem
Season 1, Episode 9
How did this poem, written by an American prisoner in England in 1780 end up in Oregon 200 years later?
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Dutch Colonial Home
Season 1, Episode 9
What role did these menacing forts play in the settling of this part of the West?
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Mark Twain's Watch
Season 1, Episode 9
Was this watch a gift from noted author American author Mark Twain?
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Flint Lock Rifle
Season 1, Episode 10
Was this the gun of one of the most infamous bandits operating to undermine the birth of our nation?
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Lafayette China
Season 1, Episode 10
Did the Marquis de Lafayette give this china set to the popular wife of the Patriot Mayor?
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Prison Plaque
Season 1, Episode 10
Were convicted felons responsible for bringing peace to Western Europe during World War I?
