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Description
Digging deeper into the complexities of historical mysteries, this popular PBS program uses traditional investigative techniques, modern technologies and old-fashioned legwork to provide new insights into our national history, and oftentimes presents a human story associated with age-old artifacts. The hosts include appraiser Wes Cowan, art historian Elyse Luray, and authors and professors Gwen Wright and Tukufu Zuberi.
Upcoming Episodes
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A raid on the federal armory in Harpers Ferry, W.Va.; why U.S. troops were in Siberia during World War I; Ronald McDonald costume. (60 minutes)
Schedule Channel Audio HD WNIT2 34.2 Stereo WNIT2 34.2 Stereo -
PsychoPhone; War Dog Letter; Pancho Villa Watch Fob
Thomas Edison created the PsychoPhone to record messages from the afterlife; a World War II soldier's letter; watch fob commemorates murderous raid. (60 minutes)
Schedule Channel Audio HD WNIT2 34.2 Stereo -
A Civil War soldier's letter; fabric from an aircraft could be linked to Charles Lindbergh and Igor Sikorsky; 1950s comic book "Negro Romance." (60 minutes)
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Manhattan Project; Galleon Shipwreck; Creole Poems
Invention may have been used to build the atomic bomb; a 23-pound block of beeswax; French manuscript could be love poems. (60 minutes)
Schedule Channel Audio HD WNIT2 34.2 Stereo -
A propeller from a World War II drone; wooden club may belong to Theodore Roosevelt; letter possibly written by Clara Barton voices concern about a soldier. (60 minutes)
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