Season 7, Episode 8

In the spring of 1945, in some of the bloodiest fighting of World War II, Allied forces move north through Italy, liberating towns from Fascist control. Italy's leader, Benito Mussolini, is in hiding. Our contributor has a weapon which he believes may be connected to the last days of the world's first fascist state. Did this dagger his uncle brought back from the war belong to Mussolini himself?

History Detectives peers inside a black box that may shed light on some of the darkest days of the Cold War. More than sixty years after the start of the Cold War, Wayne Gilbert, of Westminster, Colorado, has stumbled across an interesting discovery. Was this device invented to help Americans believe they could survive a Soviet nuclear attack?

By the early 19th century, the United States was home to increasing numbers of free blacks, many of whom sailed to West Africa to establish the Republic of Liberia. Our contributor has long been mystified by some old family letters. One letter is from her grandmother's brother, Harvey McLeod, and it suggests that he was heading to Liberia, but did he make it there?