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History Detectives
1775 Almanac, Exercise Records, Moon Museum
Season 9
Episode 9
In this episode, the notes scrawled in the margins of this 1775 Almanac give us intimate insights into how loyalties strained families during the Revolution. Then a garage sale find ties a woman to the grandfather she never met. Was he the phonograph exercise guru of the 1920s? And did NASA unwittingly smuggle Andy Warhol art to the moon?
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53:09
Barton Letter; Andrew Jackson's Mouth; Spybook

55:09
Space Boot; Satelloon; Moon Museum

54:44
WPA Mural Studies; George Washington Miniature; Japanese Balloon Bomb

54:44
Mussolini Dagger; Liberia Letter; N.E.A.R. Device

54:44
Amelia Earhart Plane; Fillmore Pardon; Boxcar Home

54:44
Tokyo Rose Recording; Crazy Horse Photo; World War II Diary

54:44
Sideshow Babies; Lubin Photos; Navajo Rug

54:54
St. Valentine's Day Massacre; Booth Letter; Cemetery Alarm

54:54
Manhattan Project Patent; Galleon Shipwreck; Creole Poems

54:51
Psychophone; War Dog Letter; Pancho Villa Watch Fob

54:07
Blueprint Special; Monroe Letter; Atocha Spanish Silver

54:07
Shipwreck Cannons; Connecticut Farmhouse; Kahlil Gibran Painting