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Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Over 2000 Union soldiers, passengers and crew were crammed aboard the steamboat Sultana, licensed to carry 376. Graft, greed, overcrowding, a poorly maintained boat, and the Mississippi River was swollen with spring snowmelt conspired together to create a disaster. On April 27, 1865, the boat's boilers exploded, causing the worst maritime disaster in US history. This documentary features interviews with preeminent Sultana historians Jerry O. Potter...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The History detectives teams investigates four mysteries from America's past: the disappearance of labor leader Jimmy Hoff; the sinking of the steamboat Sultana in the Civil War-era South; a series of serial killings in 19th century Austin, Texas; the disappearance of bandleader Glenn Miller in 1944.
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