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 ...
It's going to take longer to get the Sultana Disaster Museum in Marion constructed and open to the public than previously ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...