Book Review: Captain’s Dinner by Adam Cohen
Cannibalism occurs in a wide range of species across the natural world, and early humans and Neanderthals were no exception. Several ancient cultures across the […]
Social History
How Titanic Became a Queer Love Story Without Even Trying
When James Cameron’s Titanic hit theaters in December 1997, it wasn’t just a movie—it was an event. Audiences around the world fell for Leonardo DiCaprio, […]
Book Review: Kindred Spirits: A Titanic Tale by Nelson Aspen
Few tragedies have captured the world’s imagination quite like the sinking of RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. More than a century after her ill-fated […]
The Lesbians: Three Ships with One Very Queer Name
“What’s in a name?” William Shakespeare famously posed this question in Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2. There’s power in a name—it becomes a […]
Book Review: Titanic: The Untold Tale of Gay Passengers and Crew by Jack Fritscher
Last year, when I was working on my “Ship of Secrets” blog post, I stumbled across a book called Titanic: The Untold Tale of Gay […]
Hidden in the Wake: The Lusitania’s LGBTQ+ History
Last year for Pride Month, I wrote a post about the LGBTQ+ history of RMS Titanic. This year I wanted to focus on RMS Lusitania […]
Two Tragedies of Modern Memory: Titanic and the American Civil War
Today marks the 160th anniversary of General Robert E. Lee’s surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. This ultimately led to […]
A Woman and the Big Ship: Elaine Kaplan and the SS United States
A complex engineering marvel, the SS United States remains the fastest ocean liner ever built. She smashed the Queen Mary’s coveted transatlantic speed record on […]
Book Review: Maiden Voyages by Siân Evans
Great transatlantic liners like Mauretania, Lusitania, Aquitania, Olympic, Île de France, Imperator, Rex, Normandie, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth dominated the first half of the […]
A Break with Tradition: Captain Inger Klein Thorhauge
Inger Klein Thorhauge (née Olsen) made history in December 2010 when the Cunard Line promoted her to captain of MV Queen Victoria. It was a […]