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\nMore than one thousand New Yorkers perished on June 15\,1904 when their steamboat burst into flames on the East River. A panicked and untrained crew\, coupled wi th rotten life preservers and inaccessible lifeboats\, turned a small stor age room fire into a human tragedy of immense proportions. News of the hor ror made headlines around the world and elicited an enormous outpouring of sympathy and donations. Later\, as evidence of negligence and corruption on the part of the steamer's owners mounted\, sympathy turned to outrage a nd demands for justice that were never fully met. Perhaps most astonishing \, it took New Yorkers only a few decades to forget the tragedy.
\nT his program will be augmented with more than one hundred historical images . \;
\nPresenter: Edward T. O&rsquo\;Donnell is a history profes sor at Holy Cross College in Worcester\, MA. He is the author of several b ooks\, including "Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum " (Random House\, 2003)\, "Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Prog ress and Poverty in the Gilded Age" (Columbia\, 2015) and (co-author) "Vis ions of America: A History of the United States" (Pearson\, 2016). \;F rom 2016 to 2021 O&rsquo\;Donnell hosted a popular U.S. history podcast\, "In The Past Lane" (www.InThePastlane.com). He writes history-themed featu re and opinion pieces for the "Washington Post"\, "Newsweek"\, and the "Ne w York Times" and appears frequently in documentaries on PBS and the Histo ry Channel\, most recently in one on Theodore Roosevelt (May 2022). \; \;
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