DarkTideResources

Series of Boston Globe Articles from January - February 1919.


 * Molasses Flood Pictography of Online Images:**

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“12 Killed When Tank of Molasses Explodes.” New York Times. January 16, 1919. []

“Annals of Strange Disaster: Remembering the Great Molasses Flood.” Boston Phoenix. January 16, 2004. [] Boston Phoenix interview with Stephen Puleo.

Author Stephen Puleo’s website [] Access a variety of resources including images, newspaper accounts, book excerpts, a “Boston Molasses Flood Fact Sheet,” and links to videos of the author and related websites.

Boston Molasses Disaster. Boston Public Library. [] A collection of over twenty images of the Boston Molasses disaster of January 1919, this flickr collection from the Boston Public Library also contains images of historic newspapers with headline articles about the molasses flood.

Great Boston Molasses Flood Commemorative Plaque Image. [] Image of the plaque at the site of one of the strangest disasters in history: a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Mass Moments Great Molasses Flood, January 15, 1919. Mass Moments. [] Provides an audio account, text description and some photos of the $100M in damages in today’s dollars.

“Memories of the Great Molasses Flood.” Boston Looking Backward: A Chronicle of Boston History. [] Site includes images and a few first-person memories of the event. Part of the interesting “Boston Looking Backward” site.

“The Molasses Disaster of January 15, 1919.” [] Web site with links to Yankee Magazine and Smithsonian articles about the disaster.

"Research Strategies Award Essay: The Boston Molasses Disaster" by Samantha Geib Class of 2012, Illinois Wesleyan University. [] Link to an interesting history and research process paper by an Illinois Wesleyan University student, written in 2010.

Sammarco, Anthony M. “Molasses: From the Slave Trade to the Great Flood.” PBS Forum Network. 6 December 2007. []

Historian Anthony Sammarco traces molasses from the slave trade to the abolitionist movement to the great molasses flood in Boston's North End. While the holidays evoke the warm scent of gingerbread, the role of molasses in the eighteenth century world economy had a much larger impact than the kitchen.

“Stephen Puleo Presents at the Bostonian Society Public Programs,” C-Span. [] Watch author Stephen Puleo talk about his book, // Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 //, published by Beacon Press.

Suffit, Steve. “Were You Boston in 1919? Were You in Old Boston Town?” [] Molasses Flood folk song.

“The Sweetest Thing: In the Wake of the Amber Tide” [] Eight-minute video interview and documentary featuring John Sullivan, a survivor of the molasses flood!