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Color Our Collections - Steamship Historical Society Download this pdf and color our collections! You will be creating your own art from images in our archives.

It’s #NationalColoringBookDay! You can Color Our Collections, by downloading this free pdf at shiphistory.org/2022/12/03/color-our-collections/.

The Pulitzer Prize committee called COMBEE: “A richly-textured and revelatory account of a slave rebellion that brought 756 enslaved people to freedom in a single day, weaving military strategy and family history with the transition from bondage to freedom.”

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.

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....

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.”

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.

Longtime SSHSA Member Richard Weiss recently took a road trip and made one final visit to the SS United States. You might remember the cover article he wrote for PowerShips (No. 320, Winter 2022), “Passport to Romance: A Collector’s Obsession with Ships on LP Covers.”

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This was a great interview.

Learn about the move from breakbulk cargo to containerization and the decline in ocean liner travel in Manhattan's Changing Waterfront and Harbor: youtu.be/LDCbWi2HjRc?....

Images: Nieuw Amsterdam departing from Pier 40 in New York #OnThisDay in 1971. Braun Brothers Collection, SSHSA Archives.

Immigration - Steamship Historical Society SHIPS - Immigration teaches students about immigration to America via steamship through first hand accounts and oral histories.

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.

YouTube video by Ship History SHIPS - Japanese Immigration and Picture Brides with Kelli Nakamura, Part II

Part II of my interview with Dr. Kelli Nakamura about Picture Brides is out now! We discuss arranged marriages, women's work, domestic violence, WWII and internment, and citizenship issues.

Watch the film at youtu.be/SqdTJ8Cb6kQ?....

The Merchant Marine, WWII, Integration, & Labor on the Houston Ship Channel with Jason Theriot and Charles Mills Ship History Radio · Episode

Check out my latest podcast episode where I join up with fellow UH Public History alumn Jason Theriot and share his oral history with Charles Mills on labor and integration in the Merchant Marine in Houston: open.spotify.com/episode/1hkv... #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory

Robert Smalls escaped slavery on 5/13/1862 posing as the captain of the CSS Planter, a Confederate ship w/ a crew of fellow slaves. He navigated the cotton steamer off the dock & picked up family, getting past 2 Confederate checkpoints, including Fort Sumter. The crew surrendered to the Union fleet.

Black Sailors in the Age of Sail - Steamship Historical Society Learn about the history of black sailors, why sailors had more freedom and equality, and how colonial values presented themselves on board.

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I love a good maritime meme. This was a fun lesson plan to write ⚓️

YouTube video by Ship History SHIPS - Larchmont Remembered with Daniel Harrington

Have you seen our interview with Daniel Harrington on one of New England's worst maritime disasters? You can watch it on our YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnsY.... Don't forget to like and subscribe.

Punkah Louvres have their history in the British empire and on southern plantations. We still use them on planes as well! Get on my nerdy wavelength ⬇️

This really sent me down the nerdiest rabbit hole into the history of ventilation on ships 🤓

#OnThisDay in 1953, the Italian Line's Andrea Doria, named for a Genoese statesman and admiral, made her maiden voyage from Genoa, Italy to New York City.

RIP Dr. Runyan, a legend in the maritime history and heritage community in the U.S.

I’d be happy to! Feel free to email me at steam@sshsa.org with the guidelines and how to submit. ⚓️

Ship History Radio Podcast · Steamship Historical Society of America · Join the Steamship Historical Society of America for tales of ships that reshaped our history as the country transitioned from sail to steam and bey...

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YouTube video by Ship History SHIPS - Japanese Immigration by Steamship and Picture Brides with Kelli Nakamura, Part I

Learn about Japanese immigration to Hawai’i by steamship w/ Dr. Kelli Nakamura. You’ll hear about how the American Civil War & the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 fueled a need for sugar plantation workers in Hawai’i and the practice of picture brides. Watch at youtu.be/QC04f_x8TiM