Long before its famous wartime sinking, the RMS Lusitania faced another near-catastrophe at sea. During a transatlantic voyage, the ship was struck by an unusually powerful wave that caused severe ...

Thus, the Danish West Indies became a coveted colony by the U.S. due to geopolitics, military defense and commerce. The first ...

Learn more about preparations for a season of big screen classics and get a closer look at a newly donated collection of nitrate film.

The Trumbull Motor Car Company is one of many long-forgotten car brands that launched in Connecticut back when cars were called horseless carriages.

RL. Graham is the collective nom de plume of a husband-and-wife team who were experts in World War I scholarship (tragically, the wife passed away from cancer while this book was being written). The ...

Nearly all Duluthians and Northlanders are familiar with the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, 50 years ago on Nov. 10, 1975, taking with it all 29 crew members. Many who were around when it happened ...

The British ocean liner was torpedoed by the Germans during World War I, killing over one thousand people and changing the tide of war. But controversy still surrounds the disaster as some questions ...

Didier Conrad told me that "it came about because our publisher's a big fan, and as it happened, we love him too, so it came naturally, but he doesn't really have much to do with Portugal or Lusitania ...

Can you name the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the earth? Or which ancient queen married two of her brothers? How about this one: Do you know the artist who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

Thanks to a confluence of new technology and an increased demand for travel between continents in the late 19th century, gigantic ocean-going passenger ships — or ocean liners — emerged not just as a ...

WASHINGTON -- 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 ...

Understanding the past "gives us perspective" on current events, said GQ. "And right now, we sorely need perspective." With "war raging in Europe" and Donald Trump causing chaos across the pond, it's ...