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Eight Eastland Survivors—On the Record, Off the Radar
Season 4 Episode 162
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A faded, barely readable newspaper scan kept the Eastland Disaster survivor stories tucked away for decades, hiding them in plain sig…
11 hours ago
The Ship That Rolled, the Stories That Didn't: More Voices from the Eastland
Season 4 Episode 161
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We explore three gripping firsthand accounts from eyewitnesses to the Eastland disaster, shared with the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald on …
6 days, 12 hours ago
The Return of the Omitted: History Strikes Back!
Season 4 Episode 160
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History sometimes fades not from lack of evidence, but because the path connecting the pieces is broken. The Eastland disaster record…
1 week, 6 days ago
Still Black and Blue: Eastland Survivors Speak - A Lost Magazine Recovered
Season 4 Episode 159
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A single local magazine from over 100 years ago contains details of the Eastland disaster you can’t unhear—and yet, it is rarely refe…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
The Teen Deckhand and the Pastor: Two Restored Eastland Accounts
Season 4 Episode 158
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Uneven historiography (the history of history) rarely announces itself. It arrives as a confident paragraph with no citation, a quote…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Bolts & Bylines: Frankenstein’s Ghost in the Eastland Story
Season 4 Episode 157
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A missing citation can erase a life twice: once from the pages of history, and again from the digital world.
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1 month ago
Rescuers in the Shadows: A Milestone, a Mystery Photo, and the Brothers Petroskey
Season 4 Episode 156
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This week, we pull back the curtain on the Eastland disaster’s historiography and bring two overlooked rescuers to the forefront: Gre…
1 month, 1 week ago
A Beautiful Magazine and a Missing Hero - Selective History at Work
Season 4 Episode 155
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A glossy company history can sparkle—and still leave a hole big enough to hide a tragedy. We open a 1981 Western Electric centennial …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
From the Iroquois to the Eastland: One Firefighter, Two Catastrophes
Season 4 Episode 154
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A single obituary opened a door to two of Chicago’s most haunting tragedies: the Iroquois Theatre Fire (1903) and the Eastland Disast…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Checklist History vs. a Life Remembered
Season 4 Episode 153
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Our story opens with a puzzle: an independent researcher uncovers a sparse, single-source biography of an Eastland hero that reads mo…
2 months ago