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The Search Goes On — Coincidence. Clarity. Resolve.
Season 4 Episode 147
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A single number can shape how we remember—until new evidence asks us to look again. This episode takes you inside another year of res…
9 months ago
Pages, Faces, and Names Restored - A Czech Eastland Breakthrough
Season 4 Episode 146
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In this episode, we return to Chicago's Czech community and uncover something extraordinary: an original 1916 Czech-language publicat…
9 months, 1 week ago
One Family, Two Losses, and a Voice That Went On
Season 4 Episode 145
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A century-old trade journal shouldn’t be the most gripping thing you’ll hear about this week, but here we are: a 1915 issue of The Am…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
The River Remained in Her Bones: A Recovered Eastland Story
Season 4 Episode 144
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The River Remained in Her Bones: A Recovered Eastland Story
A single line in a 1922 obituary can change the shape of history. We foll…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
A Hero at the Porthole: The Rabe Family’s Story
Season 4 Episode 143
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A forgotten headline. A crowded dock. A father who turns back to a capsized ship and pulls a family friend through a porthole. In th…
10 months ago
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…
10 months, 1 week 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…
10 months, 2 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…
10 months, 3 weeks 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…
11 months 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…
11 months, 1 week ago