The maritime propeller would revolutionize naval warfare. The process of its adoption in the United Kingdom and United States in the mid-19th century has lessons for the United States today.

From the inland rivers to Mobile Bay to Fort Fisher, the naval element was key to the outcome of the conflict that determined the fate of the United States.

Two of the three strategic elements that would ultimately decide the Civil War depended heavily upon naval forces.

In the titanic and protracted fight for Iwo Jima that unfolded 80 years ago, both doggedly determined adversaries knew how high the stakes were.

The 19th-century War of the Pacific, the Russo-Japanese War, and World War I offer resonant sea power lessons for today’s challenges.

From the Confederate coast to South America to Egypt, the adventurous Alexander Macomb Mason carried his mine-warfare expertise far and wide during the 1800s.

The Chance Vought OS2U Kingfisher was designed as a scouting aircraft.

Benjamin Stoddert was desperate for ships. To solve the problem, he began a pattern that would stretch across the 19th century.

The discovery of the wreck of the USS Stewart brings a long-sought denouement to a destroyer’s story unique in the annals of the Pacific war.

In the first decades of the 20th century, the emerging technology of naval aviation was seen as a revolution in naval warfare.

One of the top museums of the Big Apple, more steel than marble and glass, is a true piece of living history.

Sims was sent to England to work with the British should the United States choose to enter the war on the side of the Allies.