Posts tagged Vanderbilt

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

Video: The Titanic Memorial of DC

Whether you know the it as the subject of the James Cameron film from 1997 or as the famously “unsinkable” ship that sunk on its maiden voyage — there is no denying that the RMS Titanic has an enduring legacy. But did you know that there is a memorial to the Titanic in Washington, DC?

Aaron KillianMarch 5, 2021RMS Titanic, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Helen Herron Taft, Vanderbilt, William Howard Taft, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Titanic, Women's Titanic Memorial, Titanic Memorial, Southhampton, New York CityComment