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Fissures in the Archive: Behind the Curtain of the Eastland Disaster
Season 4 Episode 142
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Some histories don’t fracture because records vanished; they fracture because we stopped asking questions. In this episode, we look a…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Capsized. Kicked. Survived.
Season 4 Episode 141
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A photographer’s byline led me straight into another long-overlooked Eastland story — the 1965 Chicago Tribune interview with survivo…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Rosetta Stone of the Eastland Disaster
Season 4 Episode 140
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Tracing the Eastland story back to the people who first preserved it online.
This week, I’m pulling back the curtain on how, in the la…
5 months ago
She Stayed on the Line: From the Eastland Disaster to the Front Lines of France
Season 4 Episode 139
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Sirens, floodwater, shattering glass, and a calm voice saying, “Just a moment, please.” We revisit the women who turned raw noise int…
5 months, 1 week ago
The Afterlife of a Story
Season 4 Episode 138
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What happens when the storyteller is gone—but the story keeps rewriting itself?
A single family biography can carry the weight of a ne…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
From Sea to City: A Mariner’s Journey into Chicago’s Past
Season 4 Episode 137
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A city comes alive when you can stand on a corner and glimpse yesterday behind today’s skyline. That’s the spark behind my conversati…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Eastland Survivors and the Case of the Missing Bylines
Season 4 Episode 136
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Memory can vanish quietly—sometimes with a server shutdown. This week, we open the door to the Eastland disaster’s online past: from …
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Excursion to Death — The Witness Who Finally Spoke
Season 4 Episode 135
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A tug’s line goes taut, a mandolin stops mid-note, and a sleek steamer rolls onto its side in six minutes. That’s the scene an eight-…
6 months ago
Visiting Every Grave - George Hilton’s Eastland Legacy
Season 4 Episode 134
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A century after his birth, George W. Hilton is still guiding our footsteps. This episode honors the transportation historian whose bo…
6 months, 1 week ago
Buried by Omission: The Eastland Victim Who Disappeared
Season 4 Episode 133
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This week we take a deeper dive into the Claims and Libels files (In the Matter of the Petition of St. Joseph-Chicago Steamship Compa…
6 months, 3 weeks ago