After the Headlines Faded

Ten Forgotten American Disasters and the Evidence They Left Behind

von Deva Pramata

206 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Ten disasters. Hundreds of lives lost. Stories that once filled American headlines-and then faded from national memory. Not a quick pamphlet - ten fully documented disaster investigations in one volume.In 1922, a Washington theater roof collapsed beneath the weight of snow. A Mississippi River excursion boat sailed into a gathering storm. A Massachusetts mill fell before it burned. An iron bridge turned over beneath a crowd. A flash flood reached an Oregon town almost before warning could. A steamship sank at the entrance to San Francisco Bay. Miners survived an explosion only to run out of breathable air. A Pennsylvania dam that had already moved failed again. A passenger train fell with an iron bridge. And at Eddystone, a wartime ammunition plant exploded for a cause investigators could never finally prove.After the Headlines Faded reconstructs ten American catastrophes through contemporary testimony, official investigations, archival records, and later historical and technical research. Each chapter closes with a Disaster File - dates, death tolls, causes, and verdicts at a glance.Rather than reducing each disaster to a single villain or dramatic trigger, Deva Pramata asks the harder questions: What failed? What warnings existed? Why did an accident become a mass-casualty catastrophe? Who had the authority to act? And what can the surviving evidence actually prove?Written as narrative nonfiction and illustrated with archival images, this is a history of catastrophe, responsibility, memory, and the evidence left behind.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176829976
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published