Of all the classes of those who sailed, the one that suffered the highest rate of casualties was those of the great ship’s crew, less than a quarter of whom survived. The lost crew of Titanic, and the people they left behind, deserve to be remembered.
Three classic episodes of The History Guy about how the Christmas season survives even tragedy.
The “Great Sedition Trial” uncovered shocking connections at the time with the German reich that we were fighting, and challenged the idea that the nation was of a single mind during the war. It also challenged exactly how far the national commitment to freedom of speech and opinion reached, especially in extraordinary times.