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Steven Biel’s chapter, “Unknown and Unsung,” talks about the sinking of the Titanic but also how the ideology of the people was changing during that time. The way people referenced back about the Titanic was more than just a luxury ship. As we know the ship had different classes and the wealthier people got the best accommodations while the poor did not. People of color were not even allowed on the ship, but looking back at it now they were glad that the titanic saved their lives. During the sinking men acted as heroes and protected women and children the most. But back home there was a struggle of race, gender and class. So when feminists viewed the disaster they criticized how men cared so much about women on the ship. But as raldrich25 explains in “Capitalism Creates Disaster”, “Women and children were given little thought and rarely considered first by these same men when it came to business.” This was true, men came out looking like heroes and put women first but why could they not be seen as equal and given the right to vote as many women wanted it. This progressive era not only changed the way people started to view life but also history was starting to change as well. Just as we talked about Popkin’s From Heredotus to H-Net chapter 6, there was social and political change and the rise of history of gender starts to have more importance. There was a social unrest during this time and historians started writing history in different perspectives. Aside from gender, history of memory also becomes important. Oral history of people who gave their testimonies of the Titanic for example, gave historians a closer perspective although they did not make everything facts, they did write about how they could use the source of memory.