History Detectives producers are hunting for great ideas. Do you have an intriguing item locked away in your closet? Executive Producer, Chris Bryson, offers these tips that will make your submission ...

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 ...

Use this lesson to help students deconstruct an episode of “History Detectives: Special Investigations.” The “Viewing Guide” allows students to map out the steps that the History Detectives follow to ...

This project will guide students though a project-based inquiry into one of history’s famous cold cases. Students will choose a mystery to investigate, seek out and analyze both primary and secondary ...

Face Artifact The Place: Mantoloking, New Jersey Found on the beach, a pebble in the sand with sculpted human features. To unlock this riddle, the team must travel through time, across borders and ...

Want to watch "History Detectives" on your TV, phone, or tablet? Searching for a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or stream the documentary TV series via subscription can be tricky, so we ...

When she was first told the proposed name for the new PBS program, Columbia professor Gwendolyn Wright thought it was "a little glib." But now she's happy to be one of the "History Detectives." "The ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Anyone can be a history detective! Participants learned how history experts at the Smithsonian used important social-emotional learning skills ...