Season 6, Episode 2

A Desert Storm veteran purchased a worn flag with a red felt hand sewn in the center and small U.S. flags sewn in the corner. Was this flag carried into battle by one of the few African-American infantry regiments that fought in WWI under French command? Host Elyse Luray heads to South Carolina to link this mysterious flag to the legacy of the Red Hand Division and its wartime triumphs.

The president of the historical society in Isleton, California has inherited a building that may be an old Chinese Tong. In the late 1800s, Tongs were places of protection and solidarity for outcast Chinese immigrants. But in the newspapers, these were secretive centers of gangland warfare and gambling. Host Gwendolyn Wright heads to California to unravel the mystery of the Chinese Tong.

An Illinois man purchased a painting from a seller in Northern Ireland that depicts a scene of traditional Native American life. Could this be an authentic work of artist and military officer Seth Eastman? Host Tukufu Zuberi travels to Fort Snelling to examine how Eastman carried out government policies of Native American removal while capturing on canvas what he believed was a doomed way of life.