A century-old mystery beneath the waves remains unsolved as we enter this New Year. It involves the sinking of the ocean liner Lusitania during the First World War. Martha Teichner takes us back: ...

On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland and nearly 1,200 lives were lost. Library of Congress via WikiCommons When the First World War began, in the ...

This lesson is designed to help students investigate the sinking of the RMS Lusitania on May 7, 1915, by a German submarine while en route from the United States to England. Students will take various ...

It was a maritime disaster almost as deadly as the Titanic. It saw innocent civilians become collateral damage. And it swayed the public opinion of a neutral nation at a time of war, just like the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- On May 7, it will be exactly 100 years since the sinking of the luxury steamship Lusitania by a German submarine. A new best-selling novel is exploring the question: Did it have to ...

It’s hard to remember your manners when you think you’re about to die. The human species may have developed an elaborate social and behavioral code, but we drop it fast when we’re scared enough — as ...

The Lusitania sailed regularly between Liverpool (above) and New York from 1907 to 1915 Some 1,200 people died when the ocean liner Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat in World War One. A centenary ...

The ocean-going liner Lusitania was torpedoed in 1915, and it sank in 18 minutes. Just under 1,200 desperate American and European men, women and babies drowned – dragged into the Atlantic ten miles ...

On this day in 1915, a German U-boat torpedoed the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner, off the coast of Ireland. Of the 1,959 people on board, 1,195 perished at sea. The 32,000-ton liner, ...

One hundred years ago, 128 Americans died among more than a thousand in the sinking of what was then the greatest ocean liner in the world. In response, the U.S. entered World War I. That's the story ...