Classic soul music and American military history are far-apart fields of interest, but Jeff Kollath, who has an impassioned love of both, has found a pathway from one to the other -- and he is about ...

The Sultana Disaster Museum occupies a tiny space for such a huge disaster. The 1,000-square-foot museum in Marion honors those who died in the United States' biggest maritime disaster. On April 27, ...

MARION — An Arkansas steamboat disaster that claimed more victims than the Titanic's fabled sinking merits a museum large enough for a full telling of the tragedy. Fundraising for such a vastly ...

The Sultana, a side-paddle steamboat, is shown above, obviously overloaded. The boat sank in the Mississippi River near Marion, Ark., across the river from Memphis, Tenn., in 1865. (Photo Provided) In ...

The worst maritime disaster in America’s history unfolded on the night of April 27, 1865, on the Mississippi River about seven miles north of Memphis, Tennessee. “The Sultana was the worst maritime ...

This will be on the honor system, so tell the truth. Let’s have a show of hands from all those who’ve heard of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. OK, looks like a lot of you, a solid majority, in ...

The Sultana tragedy was a catalyst for change. It helped transform the way we think about technology and equipment to prevent breakdowns and protect people and property. As part of HSB's history since ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – When you think of devastating maritime disasters, for many, the Titanic tragedy of 1912 instantly comes to mind. But 47 years before that, some historians believe an even ...

In this lesson, students investigate a historical mystery—the 1865 explosion of the steamship Sultana—by analyzing a collection of primary and secondary source documents. They work in cooperative ...

[Editor’s note: Here’s a little-known, little-told footnote about the Civil War that got little attention at the time of President Lincoln’s assassination, and the all-out pursuit of the assassin. Can ...