Education Quote by Erik Larson

I didn't know anything about the Lusitania. I started reading because I had nothing else in my plate. And as soon as I start…

— Erik Larson

The Lusitania is important, of course, because this is where Germany began its maritime campaign using this brand-new weapon. We have to appreciate how…

— Erik Larson

There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II. I think…

— Steven Spielberg

The sinking of the Lusitania wasn't the proximal cause for the U.S. entering WWI. It was almost two years between the sinking and the…

— Erik Larson

It's not my intent to write definitive history. 'Dead Wake' isn't a definitive history of the sinking of the Lusitania. It's my account.

— Erik Larson

Most people learn all about the Second World War in school, or else, they see so many films put out by Hollywood, that it's…

— Jeff Shaara

We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.

— Chris Cleave

“It was a frightening metaphor for what the United States was becoming – a Titanic of rich, proud dimwits heading for the iceberg of…

— M.B. Dallocchio

Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories.

— Derek Bok

WWII is something contemporary readers already know a lot about. If our schools are doing their jobs, they know about the invasion of Normandy,…

— Anthony Doerr

I don't even know in American educational history classes how much of D-Day, World War II, all of that is taught versus how much…

— Rush Limbaugh

I grew up reading American history.

— Jake Auchincloss