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HISTORY DETECTIVES host Eduardo Pagán helps Gene Newberry find out why singer-songwriter Bob Nolan would say "Tumbling Tumbleweeds," one of the most popular cowboy songs ever, had been both good and bad to him.

History Detectives: Carson Family Secrets; Yakima Canutt's Saddle; Tumbling Tumbleweeds; Modoc Basket

Airs Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

New Bias Seen In Workplace: Treating Race As A Qualification

In his recent Op-Ed in The New York Times, Skrentny warns that too much reliance on matching race and ethnicity between employees and customers or teachers and students could lead to a new form of racial discrimination.

San Diego Council President Sherri Lightner Gets Analytical About Politics

Lightner is the first woman and the first engineer to lead the council

In Asheville, N.C., Summer Vacation Lasts Just A Few Weeks

Can year-round school spell the end of the "summer slide" for disadvantaged kids?

Jimmy Hoffa at a 1959 Racketeering hearing. Who killed Hoffa and why?

HISTORY DETECTIVES SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS: Who Killed Jimmy Hoffa?

Airs Tuesday, July 22, 2014 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

College Colleagues Will Face Off For Eric Cantor's Seat

Two professors at Virginia's Randolph-Macon College find themselves in an unexpected position: facing each other in November for a seat in Congress.

She's a teenager with a cellphone, surfing the Internet. And she's a Syrian refugee who works in the fields up to 14 hours a day. That's the new life of 15-year-old Fatmeh, seen here in the living room area of her family's makeshift shelter.

How A Top Student Ended Up Picking Potatoes: #15Girls

Fatmeh is one of hundreds of thousands of children who have fled Syria with their families. In Lebanon, she works in the fields up to 14 hours a day, clinging to her dream of going to college.

Detective Kaiama Glover in front of a Norseman bush plane, the same kind Glenn Miller boarded before his mysterious disappearance. Can this plane unlock the secret of what happened to him?

HISTORY DETECTIVES SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS: The Disappearance Of Glenn Miller

Airs Tuesday, July 8, 2014 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Marco Rubio are helping make paid family leave a major issue in this election.

Why Paid Family Leave Has Become A Major Campaign Issue

Paid family leave has never been a major topic in a presidential election — until now. Here's what got it there.

One Beer Can Be Too Much To Get Behind Wheel, San Diego Researcher Says

New research from UC San Diego finds there’s no safe combination of drinking and driving.

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