Neil, Greg and Jeff speak with Jeff Jensen, a Titanic historian living in Saratoga Springs about the Titanic and his favorite US presidents.
Episode Highlights
- Jeff shares about his online teaching job, specifically teaching history
- Diverse experiences of passengers aboard the Titanic based on their class of travel
- Finding good within tragic instances and how that applied to the Titanic tragedy
- Older advice about getting off a ship if one thinks it's sinking
- How history is often perceived as boring but is essentially storytelling
- The theory of the coal fire on the Titanic, which claims that a fire in the ship's coal bunkers weakened the bulkhead and contributed to the severity of the iceberg collision
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