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  • America’s Urban Taverns Rising To New Levels Come Mid 18th Century

    America’s Urban Taverns Rising To New Levels Come Mid 18th Century
    Oct 24 2025
    Decide if it’s fair to say come Mid 18th Century that the number of taverns in urban dwellings had greatly skyrocketed. Discover whether tavern keeping in America’s urban cities was considered a middling occupation. Determine if urban city tavern keepers were actual owners of the facilities they operated. Get introduced to John Inskeep which includes both early and later years of his life. Go behind the scenes and discover how living in a large city like Philadelphia resulted in the economic status of tavern business owners varying. Find out whether small size taverns were located along the docks of well known American Port Cities. Get introduced to beverage called “grog” including its origins. Learn if there were many grog shops which operated without a license in 18th Century America. Get an in depth analysis behind two forms of the early American Tavern which closely resembled English Institutions along with being found only in urban settings. Learn what exactly is a Tontine. Figure out why taverns began to gradually lose their control come start of 1740’s. Get introduced to Boarding Houses along with finding out whether women were frequent owners of them. Agree whether Boarding Houses did cater to a large variety of residents. Learn when the first stagecoach service came into play during Colonial American Times. Confirm if Pre Revolutionary War Era saw mixture of hurdles and triumphs involving stagecoach services. Discover some unique aspects behind taverns when it came to stagecoach travel. Get to know the importance behind “stage stops”.

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    1 h et 20 min
  • Understanding Personal Relationships That Taverns Served

    Understanding Personal Relationships That Taverns Served
    Oct 20 2025


    Get introduced to William Bradford along with understanding where his religious beliefs stood. Learn who ascends the English throne come year 1603 along with knowing where his policies stood regarding religious toleration. Determine if William Bradford himself went aboard the Mayflower in 1620. Learn what exact connection William Bradford had with taverns in America. Go behind the scenes and discover how a beer shortage onboard Mayflower impacted the passengers, but yet benefited ships crew. Agree if it’s fair to say that individual communities were instructed by law to establish and support taverns. Discover where Wellfleet is located in Massachusetts and whether any taverns operated there prior to 17th Century ending. Learn about religious differences involving Pilgrims and Puritans. Figure out what exact stance Puritans held over taverns. Understand why Massachusetts Bay Colony Leaders went about enacting multiple tavern laws. Determine if tavern regulations included any kind of potential penalties as well as restricting the amount of time one spent in a tavern. Learn why apprentices weren’t allowed to enter a tavern facility in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Get introduced to Maryland Colony’s Tavern Laws during the 1670’s and what they centered upon. Agree if Maryland Tavern Laws were viewed as being less moderate during the Seventeenth Century. Determine whether economic concerns had more relevancy to most tavern keepers versus customers moral well being.

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    1 h et 15 min
  • Prologue To Early American Taverns, For the Entertainment of Friends and Strangers

    Prologue To Early American Taverns, For the Entertainment of Friends and Strangers
    Oct 16 2025
    Agree if it’s fair to say that most of us associate lodging where it involves people staying somewhere for work or vacation related purposes. Learn how Ancient Roman Civilization aka the Roman Empire had its lodging system get broken down per social class status. Explore Middle Ages of European Civilization to understanding connections between trade routes and lodging. Discover what tends to come to my mind whenever I think about early 17th Century American History. Learn more behind the different types of 17th Century Lodging in Colonial America as well as people doing various things differently then versus today’s modern day times. Get an in depth analysis into what English Settlers brought over with them to the New World politically, legally, economically, & socially. Discover how the public house first originated in late 17th Century England. Figure out how many groups of clientele did taverns in Colonial America serve. Get a basic understanding behind what tavern experience meant for English People in the New World.

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    51 min
  • Great Lakes Titanic Survivors Navigating Life After Unprecedented Losses At Sea

    Great Lakes Titanic Survivors Navigating Life After Unprecedented Losses At Sea
    Oct 3 2025
    Discover exactly how many Great Lakes Passengers onboard RMS Titanic survived and perished out of 345 calling the region home. Determine if it’s fair to say that Titanic Survivors with Great Lakes connections all lived different lives following ships sinking. Go behind the scenes and learn survival stories from Great Lakes Passengers of all different classes onboard Titanic. Find out which Great Lakes State per the American side had more fatalities aboard Titanic compared to the other seven. Get a breakdown behind survival and death rates via percentages per other Great Lakes States including Canadian Province of Ontario, Canada. Learn about Winnifred Vera Quick including how old she was in 1912 including her age at time of death. Discover what became of the White Star Line by Mid 1930’s, two decades after Titanic’s sinking.

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    1 h et 8 min
  • The Prophet With Maritime Knowledge

    The Prophet With Maritime Knowledge
    Sep 30 2025
    Get introduced to Morgan Andrew Robertson. Learn how Morgan followed in his dad’s footsteps along the Great Lakes. Discover what young Morgan experienced prior to turning ten years old on April 8, 1871. Find out what line of work Morgan Robertson went into after a career along the seas. Understand significance come year 1896 for Morgan from a literary standpoint. Get a rough estimate as to just how many nautical sea tale adventures Morgan Robertson himself wrote between 1896-1915. Get introduced to what Morgan officially embarked upon writing wise come year of 1898. Go behind the scenes and receive an in depth analysis report behind Morgan’s short novel book Futility or The Wreck of The Titan. Agree if it’s safe to say that Morgan had truly gone about scaring many people who either knew him in person as well as recently meeting him between Spring & Summer of 1912. Get reacquainted with Great Lakes Steamship Freighter SS Colonel James M. Schoonmaker including her career in the years after Titanic sank. Agree if it’s fair to say that Titanic’s sinking had deeply affected mass numbers of people. Learn about the different waves behind Titanic’s interest in the decades following her sinking.

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    1 h et 19 min
  • The Evolution Behind Wireless Communication

    The Evolution Behind Wireless Communication
    Sep 26 2025
    Discover exactly when wireless communication first began along Great Lakes Waters. Find out what Wireless Telephony Services provided during early 20th Century. Get a brief timeline description of what took place involving wireless communication services from 1908-1910. Explore how ships on the Great Lakes faced their fair share of harrowing rescues thanks to wireless communications. Determine whether or not all Great Lakes Shipowners had gone about installing their vessels with wireless communications prior to and after Titanic’s sinking. Learn how Titanic’s sinking made some Great Lakes Passengers feel edgy. Get acquainted with the 1912 Radio Communication Act. Discover whether or not Great Lakes Freighters found themselves to be exempt from wireless requirements under 1912 Radio Communications Act. Go behind the scenes and learn how a ferocious storm in early November 1913 wreaked havoc on 4/5 Great Lakes. Agree if it’s fair to say that what happened in wake of Titanic’s sinking prompted widespread global maritime safety reform. Determine if all 5 Great Lakes have ever been truly invincible to having ice destroy their vessels. Learn what the original intent was behind lifeboats. Get an in depth analysis report behind what SOLAS is all about. Learn prior to Titanic’s sinking just how many vessels were lost along with getting heavily damaged due to ice. Discover what came about reform wise following first international conference on SOLAS. Learn exactly when Titanic Iceberg melted into North Atlantic Ocean including average general lifespan of icebergs.

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    1 h et 20 min
  • Artwork Behind Getting Facts Straight After Titanic’s Sinking

    Artwork Behind Getting Facts Straight After Titanic’s Sinking
    Sep 23 2025
    Agree if it’s fair to say by 1912 that newspapers achieved a full exclusive media peak. Determine if newspapers had engaged in an all out frenzy given things didn’t go as accordingly planned on Titanic’s maiden voyage. Learn whether Great Lakes Newspapers reported Titanic’s sinking with a high range of inaccuracy. Get to know H.G. Thorley. Discover how one Titanic Survivor from Toronto, Ontario, engaged newspaper reporters with controversial remarks about the ship’s leadership in midst of crisis. Learn how others objected to this particular survivor’s remarks about Titanic’s captain and crew including what one newspaper published. Go behind the scenes and discover how a White Star Line Shipping Transportation Company got established in the Great Lakes Region during Mid 1890’s. Determine if passenger ferry service throughout the Great Lakes had become a thriving industry by year 1912. Get introduced to U.S. Senator William Alden Smith. Find out just how soon a Congressional Inquiry began following Titanic’s sinking including testimony accounts from survivors as well as when the final report got presented to U.S. Senate.

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    1 h et 15 min
  • Titanic’s Silent Cargoes

    Titanic’s Silent Cargoes
    Sep 14 2025
    Get introduced to Cable Ships Mackay-Bennett and Minia who got assigned in recovering deceased bodies from Titanic. Discover just how big of a hold Mackay-Bennett had when it came to storing multiple coffins including long tonnage of ice as well as embalming supplies. Find out when both ships arrived to Titanic’s wreckage site. Learn exactly where first deceased body got spotted from alleged sinking site. Get an in depth analysis report behind what unfolded on April 22 involving the appearances of deceased bodies. Learn how hierarchy itself existed after recovering deceased Titanic Bodies based upon class. Determine exactly just how many bodies were recovered altogether including the total number buried at sea. Get a better understanding behind the burial process which took place onboard both cable ships. Discover how many bodies Mackay-Bennett returned with to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Agree if more bodies onboard Mackay-Bennett versus coffins available around time ship itself returned to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Learn which First Titanic Passenger was the wealthiest person onboard the ship. Figure out what exact dark secret did Titanic Passenger Willam Harbeck from Toledo, Ohio keep. Get a fundamental understanding behind why Halifax, Nova Scotia is so important behind Titanic’s history. Learn how many cemeteries are home to the Titanic deceased in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Go behind the scenes and explore how survivors coped with their personal feelings after having departed from Carpathia. Learn what First Class Passenger in Major Arthur Peuchen had to say to news reporters prior to departing Carpathia about his survival. Agree if it’s fair to say that some Titanic passengers heading for Great Lakes Communities got deprived altogether of a homecoming.

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    1 h et 22 min