SYMHC Classics: S.S. Sultana

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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🗓️ 27 April 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This 2014 episode covers the Sultana, which sank the day after John Wilkes Booth was captured and killed for the murder of Abraham Lincoln So the maritime tragedy didn't make headline news.

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0:00.0	You can't fully understand the moment we're living in without knowing where we've been.
0:05.0	On every episode of NPR's Thru Line, we take a story from the news and go back in time to where it started, where it really started.
0:14.4	To answer one important question, how did we get here? Find NPR's through line on the I-Heart
0:25.6	radio app or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Celaya Moson and I've
0:32.0	covered economic policy for years and reported on how it impacts people across the United States.
0:37.5	In 2016, I saw how voters were leaning towards Trump and how so many Americans felt misunderstood by Washington.
0:45.0	So I started the Big Take D.C.
0:46.9	We dig into how money, politics and power shaped government and the consequences for
0:51.3	voters.
0:52.3	With new episodes every Thursday, you can listen to the Big Take D.C. on the I Heart Radio
0:56.8	app, Apple Podcasts, or whatever you get your podcasts.
1:00.0	Hey, I'm Jay Shetty and I'm the host of the on purpose podcast and I had the opportunity to talk to one of Hollywood's major icons Michael B Jordan.
1:08.8	In our conversation Michael shares the highs, the lows and everything in between offering a genuine glimpse into
1:15.6	his world.
1:16.6	The closest to getting what you want is always the hardest.
1:20.4	People give up right before they get what they always wanted to get.
1:24.4	Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shelly on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your
1:29.4	podcasts. Happy Saturday.
1:34.0	On April 27, 1865, the sultana exploded and sank on the Mississippi River, so that was 159 years ago today,
1:42.4	and it was the deadliest maritime disaster in US history.
1:47.5	This episode originally came out on June 11, 2014 and please excuse how we said Cairo, Illinois.
1:55.0	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of I Heart Radio. Hello and welcome to the podcast, I'm Holly Fry, and I'm Tracy V Wilson and it is time for another maritime
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