Use this lesson to help students deconstruct an episode of “History Detectives: Special Investigations.” The “Viewing Guide” allows students to map out the steps that the History Detectives follow to ...

This project will guide students though a project-based inquiry into one of history’s famous cold cases. Students will choose a mystery to investigate, seek out and analyze both primary and secondary ...

PBS invites fans to help solve the mystery, “Who is John F.?” with a pre-broadcast online story release at pbs.org/historydetectives Portland, OR [June 7, 2010 ...

Anyone can be a history detective! Participants learned how history experts at the Smithsonian used important social-emotional learning skills like perspective-taking, critical thinking, and ...

Turn your KS3 History classroom into a historical detective investigation with this 100-page printable workbook, featuring 12 fictional mystery cases, source analysis activities and evidence-based ...

Puzzles involving the Chisholm Trail, Houdini posters and a flag that may have draped the coffin of President William McKinley, assassinated in 1901. Included: determining how far south the Chisholm ...

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 ...