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  • 1916 New Jersey Shark Attacks Part 3

    1916 New Jersey Shark Attacks Part 3
    Aug 9 2025
    After a pair of shark attacks along the Jersey shore a large shark was swimming up the Matawan Creek. Where despite efforts to raise the alarm a young boy's life could be claimed by the wayward shark. The traedy though was not yet over.



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    1 h y 13 m
  • Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 6 The Nation Takes Note

    Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 6 The Nation Takes Note
    Aug 2 2025
    In this episode following the levee collapse at Mounds Landing and the flooding of Greenville Mississippi the nation finally takes notice of the ongoing disaster in their midst. Meanwhile I also look at the life of blues musician Big Bill Broonzy and his song about the 1927 flood Southern Flood blues.


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    37 m
  • 1916 New Jersey Shark Attacks Part 2

    1916 New Jersey Shark Attacks Part 2
    Jul 26 2025
    After the first officially recorded shark attack in American history people continued to flock to the Jersey shore. With many openly dismissing that any danger whatsoever existed. Soon though the region would be thrown into a panic as more fell victim to the 'shark plague.'


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    58 m
  • 1916 New Jersey Shark Attacks Part 1

    1916 New Jersey Shark Attacks Part 1
    Jul 12 2025
    As thousands flocked to the Jersey shore in the summer of 1916 none could anticipate the horrors that awaited them. At least in part because no one at the time believed that sharks were dangerous. Indeed never before in American history was their an officially recorded incident of a shark attacking a person. That however would change when over the span of 12 days 5 people would be attacked by a shark or sharks.

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    1 h
  • Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 5 Mounds Landing

    Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 5 Mounds Landing
    Jul 5 2025
    The Mississippi River could no longer be contained as even the vaunted federal levees started to fail.
    The nation as a whole though would not fully take notice of this unfolding disaster until the events at the Mounds Landing levee on the morning of the 21st of April 1927. As the destruction unleashed at this sight would prove to be impossible to ignore

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    29 m
  • The Labor Uprising of 1877 Part 4

    The Labor Uprising of 1877 Part 4
    Jun 28 2025
    As the strike spreads into the mid-west the cities of St. Louis and Chicago see massive demonstrations that look to shut down not just thie railroads but all their industries and businesses.


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    1 h y 38 m
  • The Labor Uprising of 1877 Part 3

    The Labor Uprising of 1877 Part 3
    Jun 14 2025
    As blood of workers ran through the streets of Baltimore and Pittsburgh. Blood that was shed by soldiers of the government at the behest of the railroad corporations the great strike of 1877 continued to spread to states like New York and Ohio.



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    1 h
  • Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 4 Lonnie Johnson

    Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 4 Lonnie Johnson
    Jun 7 2025
    As the federal levees along the Mississippi are barely holding some are forced to labor and put their lives on the line to try and hold the rising waters back. A subject which legendary bluesman Lonnie Johnson covers in one of the 2 songs he penned about this disaster.


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    29 m