Titanic has never given up her secrets easily,' said Yasmin Khan, professor of modern history at the University of Oxford ... including property tycoon John Jacob Astor IV, great grandson ...

“So then [her son] John Jacob Astor IV decides to fight back. They’re thinking of tearing down their mansion and building a horse stable to spite the hotel, because the smell would be terrible. Then ...

Famed artist Maxfield Parrish was a Quaker and teetotaler who was hesitant to decorate a watering hole, but he couldn’t resist the $5,000 commission being offered by John Jacob Astor IV in 1906 ...

This article is written by William Roka, a historian with the South Street Seaport Museum. Titanic and New York City, ...