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11 unusual facts about History Detectives


Benjamin Abbot House

In 2004, PBS filmed a History Detectives documentary with the Abbot homestead as the subject.

Charles Darrow

In 2004 the PBS program History Detectives investigated a game board owned by Ron Jarrell of Arden, Delaware, which had elements of both The Landlord's Game and Monopoly.

Eduardo Obregón Pagán

Eduardo Obregón Pagán (born August 13, 1960) is the Bob Stump Endowed Professor of History at Arizona State University, and one of the hosts of the PBS popular series History Detectives since 2008.

Fred Cowan

Cowan is the younger brother of author Roberta Bondi, older brother of History Detective Wesley Cowan and first cousin of Kassie Wesley DePaiva.

Henry Lincoln Johnson

A 1918 commercial poster honoring Johnson's wartime heroics was the subject of an 2012 episode of the PBS television series History Detectives.

History Detectives

Between segments there will be interstitial material involving stock footage and one of the investigators giving narration that relates to the general topic which had been covered in the preceding segment.

Over its first decade, the series featured a team of several "detectives": originally Wes Cowan, Elyse Luray, Gwen Wright, and Tukufu Zuberi, later joined by Eduardo Pagán.

Lucy Parsons

On July 16, 2007, a book that purportedly belonged to Lucy Parsons was featured on a segment of the PBS television series, History Detectives.

Max Manning

Manning appeared in a 2003 episode of the PBS series History Detectives, which featured an investigation into how a baseball field dedicated to fellow Negro League player John Henry Lloyd (better known as "Pop" Lloyd) came to be in Atlantic City, New Jersey during a period where racial discrimination was in force.

Sunbeam Alpine

More recently, the American PBS show History Detectives tried to verify that an Alpine roadster owned by a private individual was the actual car used in that movie.

The Landlord's Game

In a 2004 episode of PBS' History Detectives (title: Monopoly; Japanese Internment Camp Artwork; The Lewis and Clark Cane), the show investigated a game board belonging to a Delaware man, having an intermediate version of a game combining elements of The Landlord's Game and Monopoly.