When Erik Larson set to work on “Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania,” he had, he admits, a hazy knowledge of the tragedy “tucked somewhere between the Civil War and Pearl Harbor.” Many ...

The Lusitania and the RMS Titanic are two of the most majestic vessels the British have ever produced. Both tragically sank, causing enormous loss of life. What's particularly notable about the two ...

The RMS Lusitania arriving in New York City in 1907. (George Grantham Bain Collection /Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division) Owning a fragment of history — a Gettysburg bullet, a ...

Larson crafts a gripping historical suspense story about the romance and tragedy of the Lusitania in Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the ‘Lusitania’. What drew you to the Lusitania story? I began ...

In May 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat, resulting in the loss of more than 1,100 lives, The attack on the civilian vessel sent shockwaves around the ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. Listen 6:08 One hundred years ago, 128 ...

One hundred years ago, the R.M.S. Lusitania, a Cunard liner en route from New York to Liverpool was sunk by a German U-Boat. It was attacked off the south coast of Ireland in the afternoon of May 7, ...

Records from two nearly 100-year-old shipwrecks, the Titanic and the Lusitania, have given researchers new insight into human selfishness — and altruism. On one boat, it seems, the men thought only of ...

Timothy G. Nelson writes: While the role of "moral damages," particularly in business cases, is still debated, the influence of 'Lusitania' is undeniable. As in so many other facets of legal life, a ...