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Aimee
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Public and oral historian focusing on gender and immigration. Currently the Education Director at the Steamship Historical Society and Associate Editor of PowerShips Magazine. Visit shiphistory.org/education and shiphistory.org/radio.
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The film version of this interview contains historic images, video, and documents from both Mark's archive and the SSHSA archive along with materials in the public domain and is available on YouTube at youtu.be/_Jk-prcwotU?....
The 50th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald with Mark Sprang
YouTube video by Ship History
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November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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See a short clip of Geoff Paul giving discussing Samuel Ward Stanton during our Art Tour at youtube.com/shorts/GDKSM....
Geoff Paul gives SSHSA an Art Tour at the Griswold Inn
YouTube video by Ship History
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November 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Thank you, Richard for sharing your thoughts and final farewell images of the Big U with SSHSA and our members and friends! She will be missed.

To read his article, purchase a single issue of PowerShips (No. 320, Winter 2022) at shiphistory.org/product/powe....
PowerShips #320 - Winter 2022 - Steamship Historical Society
Get our quarterly maritime magazine PowerShips, which has articles about ship history past and present, created and printed in the USA.
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April 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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He told us, “You cannot get unobstructed views of the ship from the shore.” Later that afternoon, he took more images from the shore. “What you see here is that many of the port holes have been removed & nearly all the glass on the promenade decks on both sides has been removed. A sad sight indeed.”
April 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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He shared his photographs with us, taken from the tour boat Perdido Queen, which makes tours along the river of all the ships on both sides of the busy harbor in Mobile, Alabama.
April 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Visit shiphistory.org/ships-immigr... to find Part I, which discusses how the American Civil War and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 fueled a need for sugar plantation workers in Hawai’i. You can also find a link to our lesson plan on Asian immigration to the West Coast.
Immigration - Steamship Historical Society
SHIPS - Immigration teaches students about immigration to America via steamship through first hand accounts and oral histories.
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February 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I’d be happy to! Feel free to email me at [email protected] with the guidelines and how to submit. ⚓️
January 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM