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Elyse Luray on Being a History Detective

Elyse covers the tough questions about being on the History Detectives beat.
Length 03:24 Premiere: 05/31/05

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HDSI - The Disappearance of Glenn Miller
S11 E2 Length 54:41 Premiere Date 07/08/14

HDSI - Civil War Sabotage?

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Clip Length 02:19 Premiere Date 04/29/05

Behind the Scenes - Series Three
Clip Length 01:53 Premiere Date 04/29/05

Sports Memorabilia
Clip Length 01:41 Premiere Date 04/28/05

Provenance
Clip Length 02:13 Premiere Date 05/31/03

Trash or Treasure
Clip Length 01:55 Premiere Date 05/31/03

House Dating
Clip Length 02:06 Premiere Date 05/31/03

Real or Fake
Clip Length 02:19 Premiere Date 05/31/03

Preservation
Clip Length 01:39 Premiere Date 05/31/03

Causes of the Civil War
Clip Length 01:37 Premiere Date 05/31/03

Thin Section Analysis
Clip Length 01:30 Premiere Date 05/31/03

Genealogy
Clip Length 01:36 Premiere Date 05/31/03

Underground Railroad
Clip Length 01:26 Premiere Date 05/31/03

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History Detectives - S10 E7

Premiered On: 10/03/2012

World War I poster; a map of Valley Forge that George Washington may have used during the American Revolution; transistor radio; business card may tie a man's father to Prohibition-era underworld crime.

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History Detectives - S10 E8

Premiered On: 04/03/2013

The History Detectives investigate four stories from the American West including a biography of Kit Carson, a saddle that tells the story of Yakima Canutt, an inscription on sheet music of "Tumbling Tumbleweeds," and basket from the Modoc Indian wars.

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History Detectives - S10 E9

Premiered On: 01/09/2013

Stories from our nation's beginning involve an early American bill of sale for a 17-year old girl, a powder horn from the American Revolution, a handwritten score and the "Star Spangled Banner," and a 1775 almanac.

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PsychoPhone/War Dog Letter/Pancho Villa Watch Fob - S7 E1

Premiered On: 06/22/2009

A couple in Cincinnati acquired a machine that may have been intended to record messages from the dead; dogs trained for war; and a watch fob commemorating Pancho Villa's raid on Columbus, N.M.

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Manhattan Project/Galleon Shipwreck/Creole Poems - S7 E2

Premiered On: 06/29/2009

An invention that may have been used in the atomic bomb; a 23-pound block of beeswax with strange markings; and a French manuscript kept by an American family for 160 years.

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Book of Rogues, Empire State Crash & a Forbidden Pinup - S10 E3

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History Detectives - S10 E2

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History Detectives - S10 E1

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