PBS1 年
Evaluating Conflicting Evidence: Sultana
In this lesson, students investigate a historical mystery—the 1865 explosion of the steamship Sultana—by analyzing a collection of primary and secondary source documents. They work in ...
Construction, costs to delay opening of new Sultana Disaster Museum
It's going to take longer to get the Sultana Disaster Museum in Marion constructed and open to the public than previously ...
PBS2 年
Evaluating Conflicting Evidence: Sultana
In this lesson, students investigate a historical mystery—the 1865 explosion of the steamship Sultana—by analyzing a collection of primary and secondary source documents. They work in ...
来自MSN11 个月
Queen City Crime: A boat built in Cincinnati carrying Civil War prisoners exploded in 1865
The steamboat: Sultana was a “mammoth looking craft for these times,” according to an 1862 Cleveland Daily Leader story announcing that the steamboat was “fitted out and ready for sea” and ...
来自MSN7 个月
On This Day, April 27: U.S. executes first prisoner convicted on DNA evidence
In 1810, Ludwig van Beethoven composed "Fur Elise." In 1865, the steamboat Sultana, heavily overloaded with an estimated 2,300 passengers, most of them Union soldiers on their way home ...