history-detectives

The Secret War Dog Past of Cat Island, Mississippi

Chris Wyman · 09/13/10 02:05PM

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."

The History Detectives Spotlight the Birth of American Propaganda

Chris Wyman · 07/19/10 10:33AM

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.