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 ...

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 ...

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 ...