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 ...

This spring is the 100th anniversary of one of the most notorious maritime tragedies in history – but there is probably a lot you didn’t know about the sinking of the Lusitania. As World War I was ...

On May 7, 1915, the RMS Lusitania was nearing the Irish coast when a German U-boat fired a single torpedo. Within 18 minutes, the ship had sunk, leaving over a thousand dead and just over 700 ...

On May 7, 1915, the news media reported that the British ocean liner Lusitania had been torpedoed by a World War I German U-boat off the coast of Ireland. More than 1,100 people died. Here is a story ...

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 ...

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... The Lusitania Mystery: Why British Codebreakers Didn't ...

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 beneath ...

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 ...