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History Detectives | Colored Heroes, Valley Forge Map and a Transistor Radio | PBS

Duration: 52:31 (Full Program)
Program: History Detectives #1007
Broadcast Date: Oct. 9, 2012

In this episode, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer helps us find the details behind the heroic acts pictured in a poster about two WWI African American soldiers. Then, do we have a hand-drawn map of Valley Forge that George Washington used during the American Revolution? Finally we investigate an early first transistor radios ever made and a business card’s link to Prohibition-era underworld crime.

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Post Date: October 10, 2012