The submarine had been a concept as early as the American Revolution, but it only became a practical, industrial technology at the very end of the 19th century.

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 ...

Churchill’s thinking about the Lusitania tragedy and the economizing of violence was similar. In his World War I memoir, he wrote that America’s entry into the war in April 1917 “could have ...

Owning a fragment of history — a Gettysburg bullet, a Coolidge campaign button — is fun, so in 1968 Gregg Bemis became an owner of the Lusitania. This 787-feet-long passenger liner has been ...

The ocean liner's sinking by a German U-boat led to the U.S. entering World War I. Erik Larson, author of Dead Wake, says British intelligence knew the ship was in danger and didn't tell anyone.

The Lusitania disaster 30 photos For a 1994 documentary, National Geographic interviewed survivors of the Lusitania. "All I could see was heads bobbing up and down," said one woman.

Of Lusitania’s 1,960 passengers, 20 were from Connecticut, according to Betty Collins, a West Hartford lawyer and longtime volunteer at Farmington’s Hill-Stead Museum, which Pope designed in 1901.

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, “Dead Wake ...

By Erik Larson Crown. 430 pp. $28 ‘I’d never seen a more uneventful or stupid voyage,” declared one passenger on the Lusitania’s final crossing, but surely this was a minority opinion.

The arrival of the Lusitania at the outer bar 4 days and 20 hours after leaving Daunt's Rock on the Irish coast is a great achievement of modern ocean navigation, and nearly equals the highest ...