The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 37, September 14, 2003, Article 11

HISTORY DETECTIVES

  Numismatic researchers should feel at home watching a new
  television series titled  "History Detectives."   The series was
  discussed in an article in the August 17, 2003 Washington Post.

  "When she was first told the proposed name for the new PBS
  program, Columbia professor Gwendolyn Wright thought it
  was "a little glib." But now she's happy to be one of the
  "History Detectives."

  "The first time I heard the title, I didn't want to say it," said the
  professor of architecture, planning and preservation. "But I
  generally came to like it. It became a way of suggesting that
  doing history is fascinating, that it's using your mind."   It
  suggests, she said, "the ways you go through things, pick up
  things that are tangential to what you're looking for."

  "The premise of the show is a simple, open one that offers a
  wide variety of historic investigations. The show's four
  detectives are presented with some historical riddle -- an
  unverified historic claim, a mysterious artifact of unknown
  significance or one for which significant claims are made.
  What follows are adventures in research, with trips to
  locales involved, visits to any number of archival preserves
  and consultations with experts from many fields."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A55591-2003Aug13?language=printer

  [The one-hour show aired Mondays at 8 p.m. It debuted July
  14, and ran  through Sept. 8.   I only learned about it recently
  during a web search.  Have any of our readers seen the show?
  -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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