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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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6 months, 3 weeks 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…
7 months 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 …
7 months, 1 week 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…
7 months, 2 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…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
A Mourning Veil and a Missing Address — After the Eastland
Season 4 Episode 152
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In this episode, I bring to a close my journey through Edna, His Wife by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Margaret Ayer Barnes, a novel …
8 months ago
From Page to Stage: A Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author, an Actor, and the Eastland Disaster
Season 4 Episode 151
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A single newspaper review from 1938 turned this story on its head.
Digging through Chronicling America, I stumbled upon a mention of C…
8 months, 1 week ago
“Catastrophe on the Chicago River” - the Cermak Connection
Season 4 Episode 150
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In this episode, I finish reading “Catastrophe on the Chicago River,” a Czech-language article by Josef Mach Sr. from 1916. The piece…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Catastrophe on the Chicago River — Part 2: The Archive Finds Keep Coming
Season 4 Episode 149
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We journey deeper into "Catastrophe on the Chicago River," a century-old chronicle of the Eastland Disaster as seen through the eyes …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
When Research Starts Talking Back
Season 4 Episode 148
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When Research Starts Talking Back
What happens when your research doesn’t just sit there quietly… but starts nudging you, whispering, …
9 months ago