Write an essay on the question: How have historians contributed to the “myth-making” of the Lusitania? (Dr Jessica Van Horssen) Try to use the following sources: Adams, Phoebe-Lou, ‘Lusitania’, The Atlantic, vol. 251(2) (Feb 1983), p. 105(1). Ramsay, David, Lusitania: Saga and Myth (New York/London: WW Norton, 2001). Bailey, Thomas Andrew and Paul B. Ryan, The Lusitania Disaster: An Episode in Modern Warfare and Diplomacy (New York: Free Press/London: Collier Macmillan, 1975). Dedering, Tilman, ‘Avengue the Lusitania:’ The Anti-German Riots in South Africa in 1915. Immigrants & Minorities, 2013, Vol. 21(3), pp. 256-288. Marcus, Laura, and Stephanie Sendaula, ‘The Lusitania’ Library Journal, v. 140(2) (Feb 1, 2015), p. 92(1). Preston, Diana, Wilful Murder: The Sinking of the Lusitania (London: Corgi Books, 2003). Simpson, Colin, Lusitania (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974). ‘The Lusitania’, The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 12(4) (1 October 1918), pp. 862-888. Walker, Alistair, Four Thousand Lives Lost: The Inquiries of Lord Mersey into the Sinkings of the Titanic the Empress of Ireland, the Falaba and the Lusitania (Stroud: History Press, 2012). Wood, M.G., Smith, D.I., and M.R. Hayns. ‘The Sinking of the Lusitania: Reviewing the Evidence’, Science & Justice, 2002, Vol. 42(3), pp. 173-188. Essay must be written in British-English, and must include references (APA) and bibliography.
