America's Hidden Stories

Discover the origins of the Salem witch hunt, why the panic spread so quickly, and where the hangings took place.

New discoveries alter our understanding of the course and conduct of the Civil War.

See how a world more connected than ever before, and a global war effort, led to the deadliest pandemic of the modern era.

New evidence is challenging the official story of Pearl Harbor and bringing surprising new enemies into focus.

Investigate the details behind what may be the first-ever cyber attack, a 1982 Soviet pipeline explosion.

Follow a team of modern anthropologists as they investigate whether an American Revolutionary War hero was actually intersex.

What drove Benedict Arnold to commit America’s greatest act of treason? Historians are looking to his wife for answers.

The birth of American democracy, tobacco farming, and slavery unfold in Jamestown during the seminal year 1619.