In this episode, we learn about the sinking of the Lusitania, a famous ship that was attacked during World War I. The Lusitania was a large passenger ship sailing from New York to England when it was struck by a German submarine. Many...

When German U-boat Commander Walther Schwieger ordered a torpedo strike on the Lusitania, he didn't know it would be the shot that eventually led the U.S. into WWI. But it wasn't a mistake, either. From: SINKING THE LUSITANIA: AN...

It took a short while for the Lusitania to go down, but it took rescue boats almost three hours to reach the wreckage. Why? From: SINKING THE LUSITANIA: AN AMERICAN <a href='http://bit.ly/1Jy9EyE' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>TRAGEDY</a>='http://bit.ly/1Jy9EyE' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>TRAGEDY

When Lusitania left the New York City harbor on May 1, 1915, it carried the hopes and dreams of 2,000 people across the dangerous Atlantic waters. Little did they know it would be her last voyage. From: SINKING THE LUSITANIA: AN AMERICAN...

It’s been around a century since the US declared war on Germany in 1917, but why did we join WWI? It might seem like a straightforward thing to answer, but trying to do so leads us straight down a rabbit hole to the foundation of the...

World War One atrocity propaganda was a specific propaganda technique that sought to garner support for war and provide a moral explanation for it, by highlighting the crimes and atrocities committed by the of the enemy. Professor Jo Fox...

This Month in History. May: disasters. Ohio National Guard kills four and wounds nine during student protest; Hindenburg bursts into flame; a German U-boat sinks the Lusitania; earthquake strikes Sichuan province, China; Mount St. Helens...