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America's Hidden Stories

Follow historians to Salem, Pearl Harbor, and Richmond as they reveal surprising new discoveries about America’s past.
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  1. S1 E1 - Salem's Secrets
    March 3, 2019
    51min
    TV-PG
    Discover the origins of the Salem witch hunt, why the panic spread so quickly, and where the hangings took place.
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  2. S1 E2 - Targeting Jefferson Davis
    March 10, 2019
    51min
    TV-PG
    A hidden chapter of the Civil War reveals new truths about the plot to kill the Confederate president.
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  3. S1 E3 - Pandemic 1918
    March 17, 2019
    51min
    TV-PG
    See how a world more connected than ever before, and a global war effort, led to the deadliest pandemic of the modern era.
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  4. S1 E4 - Pearl Harbor Spies
    March 24, 2019
    51min
    TV-PG
    New evidence is challenging the official story of Pearl Harbor and bringing surprising new enemies into focus.
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  5. S1 E5 - CIA Cyber Attack
    March 31, 2019
    51min
    TV-PG
    Investigate the details behind what may be the first-ever cyber attack, a 1982 Soviet pipeline explosion.
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  6. S1 E6 - The General Was Female?
    April 7, 2019
    51min
    TV-PG
    Follow a team of modern anthropologists as they investigate whether an American Revolutionary War hero was actually intersex.
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  7. S1 E7 - Mrs. Benedict Arnold
    April 14, 2019
    51min
    TV-PG
    What drove Benedict Arnold to commit America’s greatest act of treason? Historians are looking to his wife for answers.
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  8. S1 E8 - Mystery at Jamestown
    July 29, 2019
    51min
    TV-PG
    The birth of American democracy, tobacco farming, and slavery unfold in Jamestown during the seminal year 1619.
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