This is a companion to my episode on the Clotilda; join me as I discuss Ben Raines' stunning The Last Slave Ship, which recounts the ship's entire history as well as how he himself found it under just 20 feet of water at Twelve Mile Island, near Mobile, Alabama. I discuss all the ways in which the issues and debates surrounding Clotilda are insanely relevant to our everyday lives, American history, southern history, African American history. The ship may be raised. Museums are in the works. Descendants of the ship's survivors are on the ground working to commemorate the journey of their ancestors. The story of Clotilda is BEING WRITTEN still.

Please visit the Clotilda Descendants' website for updates (and consider donating if you're able): https://theclotildastory.com

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Join me in this, my very first side project episode, a look at the overwhelmingly important historical, cultural, and political impact of Clotilda, the last known American ship to bring slaves from Africa as part of the Atlantic slave trade. The shipwreck was located just a few years ago and its future raises some important questions. Clotilda is an American story, a global story, that you absolutely must know. I was amazed too, despite what a different era I obviously researched here, how many both thematic and physical links there are in this story to Titanic. I want to thank Ben Raines for his work in the new book The Last Slave Ship, which is stunning and helped me solidify and amplify all my research. This book will be the subject of an upcoming April Book Club episode. You can buy it here: https://bookshop.org/books/the-last-slave-ship-the-true-story-of-how-clotilda-was-found-her-descendants-and-an-extraordinary-reckoning-9781982136048/9781982136048?aid=80949&listref=the-unsinkable-book-club

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Here is the Family Ghosts Podcast series on the Clotilda: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-clotilda-legacy-part-1-the-descendants/id1217657323?i=1000458619235

And the African History Network episode as well: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-african-history-network-sh-39194/episodes/redoshi-was-the-last-known-sla-38915547

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Just popping in to let you all know what's coming this April on Unsinkable! Some exciting stuff up around the proverbial bend.

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While I'm traveling/on a pod break for just a few weeks, I thought I'd offer a sneak peek into the Patreon bonus episodes. This was the first one I ever did, so forgive any sound issues or rambling. I only scratched the surface, but in it I explore a few stories of Titanic's chefs and cooks. The stories of crew are rich and complex, and I wish we knew even more.

If you're on the fence about becoming an Unsinkable patron, perhaps this might give you a sense of what the bonus episodes offer.

See you in a couple of weeks for a fresh, exciting slate of regular episodes!

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I'm excited to bring you an interview with Jim Myers, who is the Education Executive for both Titanic Museum Attractions (Branson, Missouri, and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee). We speak about the museum's goals of memorializing both the survivors and the victims of Titanic, its role as an interactive attraction, its efforts to broaden educational programs around the ship, and also just some of Titanic's achingly human stories. I managed to only mention James Cameron's Titanic ONCE...can you believe it?

For March, the museums have a special exhibit honoring Irish passengers, and we speak a bit about it.

To plan your visit to one of the ships (for the museum buildings are half-scale ships!) or to contact Jim about an educational program for your class/school, see the museum's great website: https://titanicbranson.com for Branson and https://titanicpigeonforge.com for Pigeon Forge.

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Join me as I chat with author Hazel Gaynor, who has SUCH a refreshing take on Titanic's legacy; her book, The Girl Who Came Home, is a peek into some of the smaller, gorgeously human moments aboard the ship, and specifically those of the Irish immigrants she focuses on. This book is a fictionalization of  the ship's real Irish passengers know as the Addergoole 14, who we talk a bit about in terms of collective grief and their legacy. We touch on the role of historical fiction in helping us all to process the tragedy, as well as just historical fiction's value more generally. This was a delight, and I congratulate Hazel on 10 years with this compelling novel of the Titanic!

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This episode is dedicated to every man/woman/child suffering and in fear in Ukraine right now.

To help, donate:

To UNICEF, which helps children in urgent need of help, and right now you can flag your donation for Ukraine: https://www.unicefusa.org

To World Central Kitchen, which works to FEED people in conflict zones, disaster zones, and they're in Ukraine and on the borders right now: https://donate.wck.org/give/393234#!/donation/checkout

For a brief recent history of Ukraine: https://www.npr.org/2022/02/12/1080205477/history-ukraine-russia

Sending love to you all. 

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*(Quick note: I had some minor sound issues for this episode and I'm aware the audio quality is not quite up to standard--don't worry, this will be sorted out by next episode!)

Join me as I detail of the life of Joseph Laroche, the sole black man on the Titanic, whose story is so much more  than that factoid of a label would lead one to believe; his life intersected with crucial moments in Haitian history and in French history, and his marriage to a woman named Juliette highlights so many facets of race relations in the early twentieth century. But more importantly, their love was, it seems, quite powerful, and their family's story and legacy deserve to be told. I also address some themes of race and Titanic--how black culture processed the disaster through folklore, how race was on the ship in the form of passengers from all over the world and how they were portrayed in the wake of the sinking.

Thank you for listening!

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In this last episode for my series on the 1997 movie, I go off script and recount the Titanic cultural phenomena but also the very personal feelings I have about it and how it relates to our understanding of the ship, film history, memory, grief. I also go over the many/pervasive pop culture references from the past 25 years, including some that listeners wrote in about. This is a grab bag. This is me coming to terms with my love of a thing. This is Titanic Forever. Join me. *A special thanks to my husband John for being such a good sport.

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In some ways I think I've been waiting to record this episode for 25 years, but I wouldn't have been ready until this moment. I cover the ways in which the Titanic disaster has been viewed along gender lines and how the cultural history of it has been shaped by gender. I examine how the character of Rose, from 1997's Titanic, fits into the historical fabric of 1912 but also how she inspired and influenced a generation of young women (and men I'm sure!). I also highlight some crucial women's rights history of the era and touch on a few stories of actual female Titanic passengers who broke some norms of the time and were, as Rose is, complete badasses!

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Cheers!

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