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Season 8, Episode 2

Iwo Jima Map: Did a Japanese map found during World War II play a role in the Battle of Iwo Jima? Copperhead Cane: Tracing the Civil War-era history of cane topped with a coiled snake. Theremin: Is an instrument owned by a New Mexico man one of the few built by Leon Theremin himself?
Season 8 Episode 2 Length 55:09 Premiere: 06/28/10

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Season 8 Episodes

Season 8, Episode 10
S8 E12 Length 55:10 Premiere Date 08/30/10

Season 8, Episode 11
S8 E11 Length 55:10 Premiere Date 09/05/10

Season 8, Episode 9
S8 E9 Length 55:10 Premiere Date 08/23/10

Season 8, Episode 8
S8 E8 Length 55:10 Premiere Date 08/16/10

Season 8, Episode 7
S8 E7 Length 56:10 Premiere Date 08/09/10

Season 8, Episode 6
S8 E6 Length 55:09 Premiere Date 07/25/10

Season 8, Episode 5
S8 E5 Length 53:10 Premiere Date 07/19/10

Season 8, Episode 4
S8 E4 Length 53:09 Premiere Date 07/12/10

Season 8, Episode 3
S8 E3 Length 55:09 Premiere Date 07/05/10

Season 8, Episode 2
S8 E2 Length 55:09 Premiere Date 06/28/10

Season 8: Episode 1
S8 E1 Length 55:09 Premiere Date 06/21/10

WB Cartoons
Clip Length 16:57 Premiere Date 08/29/10

Galvez Papers
Clip Length 15:42 Premiere Date 08/29/10

Iwo Jima Map
Clip Length 17:24 Premiere Date 06/27/10

Copperhead Cane
Clip Length 17:57 Premiere Date 06/27/10

Web Extra: A Theremin Performance
Clip Length 02:36 Premiere Date 06/27/10

Theremin
Clip Length 16:48 Premiere Date 06/27/10

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

Behind the Scenes - Flintlock Rifle
Clip Length 02:49 Premiere Date 04/27/03

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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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