Episode 85.1 - RMS Lusitania, Part One

This week we begin our three-part (correction, four-part) season finale, in which we'll discuss one of the most famous maritime calamities in history - the sinking of RMS Lusitania. Sources for Part 1: Butler, Daniel Allen. The Lusitania: The Life, Loss, and Legacy of an Ocean Legend. Stackpole Books, 2000. Hübner, Andreas. “A People of ‘Patriotic Hearts’: German-Americans, U.S. Neutrality, and the Building of an Inclusive Coalition in New Orleans, 1915.” Louisiana History, vol. 60, no. 3, 2019, pp. 261 - 288. Tucker, Robert W. “An Inner Circle of One: Woodrow Wilson and His Advisers.” The National Interest, no. 51, Spring 1998, pp. 3 - 26. Watts, Jarica. “Submerged by Fear: The Politics of Wartime Hysteria in Conrad and Conan Doyle.” Conradians, vol. 49, no. 1, Spring 2017, pp. 17 - 42. Reading: Danger! And Other Stories (Project Gutenberg) - a PDF of the reading will also be in a public Patreon postSupport the show