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 ...

Our hosts have enviable jobs. An 8th grade fan recently took notice of this and wrote: I am VERY interested in finding a career in history. I would love to go around the country solving the unsolved ...

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 ...

The crime genre is packed with unforgettable detective thrillers, but there are some classics that stand out as the very best ...

Omaha History Detective Bob Marks has been sleuthing for local history for nearly 40 years. His Omaha postcard collection has inspired most of his columns for The World-Herald. A vintage postcard ...

It’s been a full ten years since the first season of HBO’s True Detective, which feels at once like an exceptionally long time and like no time at all. Time is, it has been said, a flat circle, but it ...

Halfway up Sourland Mountain in Hopewell sits Stoutsburg Cemetery – officially founded as a burying ground for slaves, free Blacks and veterans in the 1850s when rules prohibited Blacks from being ...

Dr. Frederick Rustin and Mrs. Abbie Rice. Their affair suddenly turned deadly. The hotel in Omaha's Blackstone district is thought to be the original home of the sandwich. On the morning of Sept. 2, ...

A history of aerobiology would normally be a book that would have little interest beyond the science community. But in “Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breath," Carl Zimmer transforms the ...

When it comes to Best Limited Series, the program has never been nominated for this specific category at the Emmys, having only been recognized for its first season when it surprisingly submitted in ...