America's Hidden Stories

The CIA Museum opens its doors and vaults to reveal the top secret stories behind agency documents, "Argo" artifacts, a Soviet helicopter used in the hunt for Osama bin Laden and more.

Historians chronicle the untold stories of Black settlers who journeyed to the Wild West in search of freedom and opportunity, examining their roles as marshals, cowboys, soldiers and more.

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

During a failed raid to free northern POWs in 1864, papers are found on the body of Union Colonel Ulric Dahlgren ordering the assassination of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. The discovery fuels outrage in the South and energizes the Confederate secret service. Now, historians have teamed up with descendants of the slain colonel to uncover who was behind the audacious murder plot and to consider if Abraham Lincoln's assassination one year later may have been a retaliatory measure.

The Spanish flu was one of the most devastating natural disasters in history, an unstoppable virus that swept the planet in 1918, killing tens of millions of people. New evidence suggests the possible birthplace was actually in America's heartland. Witness a globe-spanning story of death and denial on an epic scale, as we visit a mass gravesite, pore over old medical records and diaries, and use cutting edge scientific research to reveal the horrific truth behind this deadly pandemic.

Did Hitler secretly try to swing the 1940 Presidential election against Franklin Roosevelt? Newly uncovered evidence reveals the Nazis spent millions of dollars trying to influence the election, defeat FDR, and keep America out of WWII.

Follow a film historian as he unravels the mystery of a silent era movie apparently made by the notorious hate group.

Did Edith Wilson become a surrogate president after her husband's stroke in 1919? See what recently found evidence says.

Filmmaker David Bishop, who grew up on the Osage Reservation, investigates the string of murders and suspicious deaths of members of the oil-rich Osage Tribe in Oklahoma during the 1920s.

Retired members of FOG, the Field Operation Group launched in secret by President Carter, detail their covert mission to rescue 52 Americans taken hostage by Iranian forces in 1979.

The unearthing of burial grounds for enslaved people at an old ironworks leads archaeologist Whitney Battle-Baptiste on a journey into the history of industrial slavery in the United States.