In this week's episode, The History Detectives explored the ruins of a secret, WWII-era dog-training facility on Cat Island, Mississippi. Some loopy scientist thought that dogs could be trained to hunt enemy soldiers based on the "scent of Japanese blood."
Did you catch those classic Disney cartoons we posted on Saturday? As a kid, I wondered why Warner Bros. cartoons were so funny, yet Disney cartoons seemed so lame. This clip explores the fundamental difference between the two long-warring factions.
Following a segment on vintage '60s protest posters, the History Detectives explored the little-known origins of several of the era's enduring symbols. For example, the "Peace Sign" originally represented Nuclear Disarmament. Dig it?
Long before FOX News and MSNBC began propagating truthiness, Woodrow Wilson created the Committee on Public Information to keep impressionable American minds from straying too far to the left, or even worse, to Kaiser Bill and the Huns.
Or, was Alexander Graham Bell just a palm-greasing charlatan? When PBS's History Detectives are on the case, the horse eats no cucumber salad.
