It involves the sinking of the ocean liner Lusitania during the First World War. Martha Teichner takes us back: Before air travel, the departure of a great liner was considered news ...

A Bazetta resident survived the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania and offered a key eyewitness account of the tragedy that killed 1,186 people.

In 1915, a German submarine sunk the Lusitania, a British passenger ship, killing nearly 1,200 people including 123 Americans. The story of that disaster is the subject of a new book ...

It was perhaps never more poignantly played out than during the two greatest maritime disasters in history: the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. A team of behavioral economists from ...

Several histories of the Lusitania disaster give the impression that Duncan sailed on the liner New York with Ellen Terry (see below). Though Duncan idolized the older actress and even had a child ...

The sinking of the Lusitania did not exactly propel the United States into war, but it did ignite anti-German sentiment and cries for U.S. involvement. "It was a public relations disaster ...

not with the brute facts of the disaster itself. In 1865, the Sultana, a Mississippi riverboat, exploded and burned, with the loss of many more than 1,500 lives. In 1915, the liner Lusitania was ...

Reporting the Lusitania disaster, the Tribune noted that during the week of its fatal voyage, 28 other ships were sunk by German torpedoes and mines. Before the Lusitania went to the bottom off ...

Several histories of the Lusitania disaster give the impression that Duncan sailed on the liner New York with Ellen Terry (see below). Though Duncan idolized the older actress and even had a child ...