Titanic survivor, Wimbledon champion, and Olympic gold medalist. After escaping one of history’s worst disasters, he defied doctors who urged amputation, returned to tennis within weeks, and went on ...

From passengers with local ties to those who played a role in the aftermath, the whispers of the Titanic can still be heard in the town's history.

Life for American women looked very different back when Margaret “Molly” Brown showed up on the scene. Yet while men expected women to be seen and not heard, Brown did everything but—even ...

JANESVILLE -- After publishing early last month, author and film producer Steven Schwankert is set to speak at the Cozy Inn Restaurant, 214 W. Milwaukee St. about his book "The ...

Wisconsin Maritime Museum program to highlight lost story of Chinese survivors of Titanic Author and historian Steven Schwankert and Tom Fong, son of survivor Fang Lang, will be at the museum June 1.

Madeleine Astor was 18 and pregnant when the Titanic went down; she remarried twice and enjoyed a life of privilege, including wintering in Palm Beach ...

Madeleine Astor was 18 and pregnant when the Titanic went down; she remarried twice and enjoyed a life of privilege, including wintering in Palm Beach ...

April 29, 1925: Members of the Young Men's Club yesterday listened with great interest to the story of the Titanic disaster as related by Professor A.F. Caldwell of Illinois Wesleyan University ...

Ominous 113-year-old letter captures famous Titanic survivor's thoughts before voyage The 113-year-old letter was written by Colonel Archibald Gracie on April 10, 1912, the first day Gracie was ...

A letter written by one of the Titanic's most well-known survivors from onboard the ship days before it sank has sold for 300,000 pounds ($399,000) at auction.

The letter, written by first-class passenger Archibald Gracie, sold for five times its expected price at auction. It was written aboard the ship five days before it sank.