This should not come as news to those of you who have been reading the many words the Tribune has been giving you about the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. I wrote several stories about the calamity and ...

With the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 2012, the compelling tragedy has prompted an array of books retelling the story of passengers aboard ...

Written by historian Hugh Brewster, Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage invites readers into the complicated lives and relationships of the first-class passengers aboard the ship, including some of the most ...

It's been 18 years since James Cameron's epic romance Titanic hit theaters — and today marks 103 years since the sinking of the iconic ship on its maiden voyage. Titanic the movie captures a romance ...

James Cameron and his collaborators have made more than 30 dives to the wreck of the Titanic, submerged in more than 2 miles (3.8 kilometers) of water beneath the North Atlantic. His voyages to this ...

The best stories write themselves. That’s what authors often say. And the disaster of the RMS Titanic in April 1912 is one of these, so rich in perspectives and human interest — the social classes ...

The sinking of the R.M.S Titanic after it hit an iceberg in the late hours of April 14, 1912 is one of the most well-known maritime disasters in history. The tragedy, in which over 1,500 passengers ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Among the great transportation disasters of the 20th century (the Hindenburg, the Tenerife air disaster in the Canary Islands, the Challenger explosion), ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Among the great transportation disasters of the 20th century (the Hindenburg, the Tenerife air disaster in the Canary Islands, the Challenger explosion), ...

"Deeply moving and rich with vivid detail . . . Timothy Schaffert is an exquisite storyteller." --Lara Prescott, New York Times bestselling author of The Secrets We Kept From the author of The Perfume ...