On tonight's episode of the PBS series "History Detectives," Matt Flynt will find out whether he has a piece of civil rights-era history. Actually, that's a bit of TV magic; Flynt already knows the ...

History Detectives investigates Monopoly's history and discovers a surprising story. Rather than originating in the Great Depression of the 1930s, Monopoly could be a much older game, reflecting an ...

Spotlight on a vintage WWI cartridge and what it reveals about the earliest days of the struggle against communist Russia. Students share the stories behind a favorite object or family artifact and ...

In this lesson, students watch an excerpt from the episode Tumbling Tumbleweeds, in which they learn about Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers, a Western singing group famous for the song “Tumbling ...

Season 7 begins with a closer look at the "Psycho-Phone," a device presumed to have been built by Thomas Edison and was designed to communicate with the dead. Then, a WWII letter between two soldiers ...