[History Hounds] The H.L. Hunley: Solving the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine with Rachel Lance, Duke University

In 1864, the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley sank the USS Housatonic in Charleston harbor—and then vanished. Divers found the lost submarine in 1995 with the crew’s remains still inside, but why it sank remained an enigma. Learn how a scientist solved one of the Civil War’s greatest mysteries.

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