Editing PS General Slocum (section)

==In popular culture==
[[File:General Slocum Memorial Tompkins Square Park NYC.JPG|thumb|upright=0.85|The ''General Slocum'' disaster memorial in [[Tompkins Square Park]], Manhattan, New York City, which was once part of the Little Germany neighborhood]]
[[File:"General Slocum" Disaster marker - Astoria Park, Queens.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85|Historical marker in [[Astoria Park]], [[Queens, New York|Queens]], overlooking the [[Hell Gate]] section of the East River, past where the burning ship began to sink]]
[[File:General Slocum token.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85|''General Slocum'' token in the collection at the [[Mariners' Museum]] in [[Newport News, Virginia]]]]

'''Literature'''

* 1922 – A few references are made to the disaster in [[James Joyce]]'s ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'', the events of which take place on the following day (June 16, 1904).<ref name="WNYC">{{cite web |last1=Mogul |first1=Fred |title=Remembering the General Slocum |url=https://www.wnyc.org/story/85049-remembering-the-general-slocum/ |website=WNYC |publisher=[[WNYC]], [[New York Public Radio]] |access-date=19 August 2019 |language=en |date=15 June 2004}}</ref>
* 1925 – A few references to the disaster occur in [[John Dos Passos]]' novel ''[[Manhattan Transfer (novel)|Manhattan Transfer]]''.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}
* 1939 – Journalist [[Nat Ferber]]'s autobiography, ''I Found Out: A Confidential Chronicle of the Twenties'', begins with his reporting on the ''General Slocum'' tragedy.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ferber |first1=Nat Joseph |title=I Found Out: A Confidential Chronicle of the Twenties |date=1939 |publisher=The Dial Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rn1tAAAAIAAJ&q=slocum |access-date=19 August 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
* 1975 – [[Robert Shea]] and [[Robert Anton Wilson|Robert Anton Wilson's]] satirical ''[[The Illuminatus! Trilogy]]'' briefly mentions the disaster as attributable to the [[23 enigma]], since 19+04=23. Cartwright alleges that the disaster was an [[Illuminati]] technique for "transcendental illumination" through human sacrifice.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Shea|first1=Robert|title=The Illuminatus! Trilogy|last2=Wilson|first2=Robert Anton|publisher=Dell Trade Paperback|year=1975|isbn=978-0-440-53981-0|location=New York, NY|pages=581–2}}</ref>
*1996 – [[Eric Blau]]'s novel ''The Hero of the Slocum Disaster'' is based on the disaster; it was later adapted by [[Patrick Tull]] and Emily King into a one-person play.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140619192728/http://www.nytheatre.com/Review/lee-ramsey-2002-8-15-the-hero-of-the-slocum Review of the play "The Hero of the Slocum"], nytheatre.com archive, August 15, 2002. Retrieved July 16, 2016</ref>
* 2000 – The story of ''General Slocum'' was described as an "Avoidable Catastrophe" in [[Bob Fenster]]'s book, ''Duh! The Stupid History of the Human Race'', in Part One, which discusses stories involving stupidity.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}
* 2003 – ''Ship Ablaze'' by [[Edward O'Donnell (writer)|Edward O'Donnell]] is a detailed history of the event.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nonfiction Book Review: SHIP ABLAZE: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum by Edward T. O'Donnell, Author. ISBN 978-0-7679-0905-1 |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7679-0905-1 |website=PublishersWeekly.com |publisher=[[Publishers Weekly]] |access-date=19 August 2019 |language=en |date=5 May 2003}}</ref>
* 2003 – The disaster is featured in one of the chapters of author [[Clive Cussler]]'s book ''The Sea Hunters 2'' when he finds the wreckage of the barge ''Maryland'', which was the converted ''Slocum'' after she was salvaged.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}
* 2003 – The protagonist of [[Pete Hamill]]'s ''Forever: A Novel'' describes the event both as the worst disaster in New York's history at its time, and the point at which Germans left [[Little Germany, Manhattan|Kleindeutschland]] for [[Yorkville, Manhattan|Yorkville]], effectively vacating the present-day [[Lower East Side]], which was then adopted by Central European Jews.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}
* 2004 – The 2005 [[Hugo Award]]-nominated novella ''Time Ablaze'' by [[Michael A. Burstein]] ([[Astounding magazine|''Analog'']], June 2004) concerns a time traveler who comes to record the disaster. The story was published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the disaster.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}
* 2006 – The ''General Slocum'' disaster is at the center of the novel ''Kiss Me, I'm Dead'', by [[J.G. Sandom]], also published as ''The Unresolved'' using the pen name of [[T.K. Welsh]].{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}
* 2008 – The ''General Slocum'' disaster plays a prominent role in [[Richard Crabbe]]'s novel ''Hell's Gate''.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}
* 2009 – The ''General Slocum'' tragedy is described in detail in [[Glenn Stout]]'s 2009 biography of [[Gertrude Ederle]], ''Young Woman and the Sea''. Stout uses the incident, in which many women and young children drowned, to help explain the history of how women, including Ederle, were afforded opportunities to learn to swim during the early part of the century.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}
* 2010–2012 – The disaster plays a prominent role in the novels ''In the Shadow of Gotham'' (2010) and ''Secret of the White Rose'' (2012) by [[Stefanie Pintoff]].{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}
* 2011 – The sinking and the spirits of the dead near the site of the sinking at the Hell Gate Bridge are a major plot line in the supernatural novel ''Dead Waters'' by [[Anton Strout]].{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}
* 2013 – In the [[Dean Koontz]] novel ''Innocence'', deaths caused by the sinking of ''General Slocum'' prompted the construction of secret rooms dedicated to the memory of a family lost.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

'''Film, television, music'''

* 1904 – ''The Slocum Disaster'' - This silent [[Biograph Company|American Mutoscope and Biograph Company]] (#2932) documentary short filmed by [[G. W. Bitzer]] features footage of the collecting of bodies on North Brother Island, the temporary morgue at the offices of Public Charites, and mourners at St. Marks German Evangelical Lutheran Church, taken on June 16 and 17, 1904 and released that same month on the 22nd.<ref>Wells, Howard Lamar (1952) [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/56966/56966-h/56966-h.htm ''Motion Pictures 1894–1912: Identified from the Records of the United States Copyright Office''] Copyright Office, [[Library of Congress]], via [[Project Gutenberg]]</ref><ref>{{AFI film|32943|The Slocum Disaster}}</ref><ref>[https://collections.new.oscars.org/Details/FilmWorks/1030137 "Academy Collections: The Slocum Disaster"] [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]</ref><ref>[https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/cinema-flourishes-within-its-existing-commercial-framework-1904-1905 "Cinema Flourishes Within Its Existing Commercial Framework: 1904–1905"] [[Encyclopedia.com]]</ref>
* 1904 – The American composer [[Charles Ives]] (1874–1954) wrote the [[tone poem]] "The General Slocum", a musical portrait of the disaster.<ref name="WNYC" />
* 1915 – ''[[Regeneration (1915 film)|Regeneration]]'' is an early gangster film directed by [[Raoul Walsh]] and produced by [[William Fox (producer)|William Fox]]. The film was [[lost film|lost]] until the 1970s. It has a lengthy scene in which an excursion picnic ship burns in dramatic fashion while passengers jump overboard, an obvious reference to the ''General Slocum'' disaster. Walsh shot the scene in New York, not far from where the real disaster occurred.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Tracy |first1=Tony |title=The Pauper and the Prince: Transformative Masculinity in Raoul Walsh's Regeneration (1915) |url=https://www.academia.edu/20360289 |website=academia.edu |publisher=Indiana University Press |access-date=19 August 2019 |language=en |date=2011}}</ref>
* 1934 – The first scenes of the film ''[[Manhattan Melodrama]]'' recreated the disaster.<ref name="WNYC" />
* 1998 – German television produced and aired ''Die Slocum brennt!'' (''The Slocum is on Fire!''), an hour-long documentary by Christian Baudissin about the disaster and its impact on the German community of New York.<ref>{{cite web |title=Die Slocum brennt!: Eine Schiffskatastrophe löscht ein deutsches Viertel in New York aus - Dokumentation 21.06., 21:00 auf ARD-alpha- TV.de |url=https://tv.de/sendung/die-slocum-brennt/die-slocum-brennt,1095814130/ |website=TV Programm TV.de |access-date=19 August 2019 |language=de}}</ref>
* 2001 – A description of the disaster and the following events, in comparison with the September 11 attacks, is given by [[David Rakoff]] in an episode of the radio program ''[[This American Life]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/194/before-and-after?act=2 |title=Episode 194: Before and After: Act Two: Watching From The River's Edge.|publisher=[[This American Life]]|date=September 21, 2001|author=Rakoff, David|author-link=David Rakoff}}</ref>
* 2002 – The ''General Slocum'' disaster was featured in the documentary ''My Father's Gun''.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}
* 2004 – ''Ship Ablaze'' was a documentary made by [[History (U.S. TV channel)|History Channel]], with production help from [[NFL Films]], featuring a filmed reenactment of the disaster along with interviews of the two remaining ''General Slocum'' survivors. The documentary takes its name from the book by [[Edward O'Donnell (writer)|Edward O'Donnell]], who is interviewed in it.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}
* 2004 – ''Fearful Visitation, New York's Great Steamboat Fire of 1904'', produced by [[Philip Dray]] and [[Hank Linhart]], running time ''53 minutes'', premiered at the [[New-York Historical Society]] for the 100-year commemoration in 2004, and was broadcast on [[Public Broadcasting System|PBS]]. It features interviews with the last two living survivors and historians Ed O'Donnell, [[Kenneth T. Jackson]], and [[Lucy Sante]].{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}
* 2012 – The disaster was featured in Season 4, Episode 3 of the program ''[[Mysteries at the Museum]]''.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}
* 2017 – The ''[[American Housewife]]'' TV series episode on May 2 featured a child cast member who had a morbid fear of water which derived from reading about the sinking of ''General Slocum''. She cited several facts about the event.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}
* 2017 – ''History Retold: Fire at Sea'' is a documentary that describes the disaster among other disasters involving ships catching fire at sea.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}
* 2022 – The folk music group [[The Longest Johns]] reference the sinking in their song "Downed and Drowned."{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}