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SPECIAL DELIVERY - A Messenger Boy’s Path to the Eastland
Season 4 Episode 167
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This week, we’re continuing the biography of Eastland disaster survivor, Charles Borovansky. He has a lot more to say!
When I wrapped …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
One Survivor. Two Surnames. A 1940 Eastland Time Capsule
Season 4 Episode 166
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One surname search can reshape the entire landscape of history, and this week, it did just that. While tracing the path of Eastland d…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The "Elephant," the Eastland, and the Catholic Columbian Discovery
Season 4 Episode 165
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Just one missing name can change how people understand the Eastland disaster—a reminder that the story’s true impact lies in the deta…
5 months ago
Louella Parsons: Ink, Influence, and the Eastland
Season 4 Episode 164
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Celebrity culture was born not in Hollywood, but in the inky columns of newspapers, each inch building a new kind of fame. Society pa…
5 months, 1 week ago
Beyond the Capsizing: Following Four Eastland Survivors
Season 4 Episode 163
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The Eastland disaster struck Chicago in 1915, but the real tragedy unfolded in silence as the stories of its people faded, uncited an…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
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…
5 months, 3 weeks 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 …
5 months, 4 weeks 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…
6 months 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…
6 months, 1 week 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…
6 months, 2 weeks ago