How Americans Reacted to the Sinking of the RMS Luisitania

On this day just over a hundred years ago, the British passenger steam ship RMS Lusitania sank after being torpedoed by a German U-Boat killing 1,195 of those aboard — 128 of the whom were Americans. The incident forever changed the trajectory of American neutrality during WWI, a fact made evident by the intense coverage it received in the American press.

Fidan BaycoraMay 7, 2021World War I, US in World War I, Lusitania, Vanderbilt, Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Library of CongressComment