For 10 seasons our viewers asked us to solve the puzzles behind their historic objects and artifacts. Did a silicon chip bring art to the moon? Do we have the guitar Bob Dylan used to start a rock and ...

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 ...

One of the most important aspects of being a history detective is finding the right authority, or expert, to shed light on your investigation. An expert can be an author, a researcher, a librarian, a ...

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 ...

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 ...