The Naval Academy Lyceum was born in the 19th Century as a collection built around Oliver Hazard Perry’s gallant banner. Now the Naval Academy Museum, it continues to inspire midshipmen...

The period after the Civil War saw the U.S. Navy fall behind modernizing European powers. But a new generation of naval thinkers began to step forward.

One hundred and ten years ago this April, the World War I struggle for Gallipoli was unfolding, as Allied forces sought to take the strategically vital Dardanelles Strait, break open...

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced that the new class of T-AGOS ocean surveillance ships will be named the Explorer class—and that the first ship in the class...

The oldest survivor of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Warren “Red” Upton, died last December in Los Gatos, California, after a battle with pneumonia. He was...

The Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) in January officially announced the 2025 Navy History and Heritage Awards (NHHA) Program season. The NHHA Program was established in 2020 to recognize...

During aviation’s multiwing era, the triplane gained little traction in the United States. Major American manufacturers built only about 50 of them. The British had the first successful version of...

On the evening of 16 May 1919, three of the U.S. Navy’s new Curtiss flying boats began an epic journey to be the first to fly across the Atlantic Ocean...

For nearly three decades they fought—Athens, the dominant naval power, and Sparta, the dominant land force—locked in a protracted struggle for control of the Aegean Sea and the flourishing Hellenic...

In the early days of naval warfare, there was no distinction between land-based and sea-based soldiers. Most naval battles were resolved by direct combat between the crews, either by firing...

CNO Naval History Essay Contest—First Prize (Midshipmen/Cadets Category)—Sponsored by Drs. Jack and Jennifer London Charitable Foundation

When the guns had been silenced and the smoke had cleared, British Admiral Sir George Rodney had an armchair brought up to the deck of his flagship, HMS Formidable ...