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Wrecked: The Edmund Fitzgerald and the Sinking of the American Economy

Jerald Podair, Thomas Nelson

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Priest standing at pulpit. Caption: Timothy Kesicki, S.J., apologizes for the Jesuits’ sin of owning and selling people. Gaston Hall, Georgetown University, April 18, 2017.

The Jesuits and Slavery

Despite extensive historiography, most people are not aware that the Society of Jesus owned people.

by Adam Rothman via Journal Of Jesuit Studies on December 15, 2020

Edmund Fitzgerald ship on the water.

What the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Can Teach Us Fifty Years Later

Fitzgerald sank in a 1975 storm; Lightfoot’s song made it iconic. The wreck came to symbolize the Midwest’s industrial decline.

by Jerald Podair via Clio and the Contemporary on November 10, 2025

Painting of British soldiers surrendering their arms to George Washington.

The Yorktown Tragedy: Washington's Slave Roundup

History books remember Yorktown as a "victory for the right of self-determination." But the battle guaranteed slavery for nearly another century.

by Gregory Urwin via Journal of the American Revolution on October 19, 2021

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