The tragic sinking of the battleship Maine was the catalyst for the Spanish-American War. That short war ushered in a new era for the United States, embracing overseas imperialism for...

Editor's note: This is the first installment of a two-part series. The narrative of the USS Franklin (CV-13) is one of heroism, survival, and controversy. “Big Ben” was the flagship...

One hundred sixty years ago, on 4 April 1865, President Abraham Lincoln and his young son Tad, guarded by a detachment of 12 sailors armed with carbines and bayonets and...

During World War II, the U.S. Navy repeatedly deprived itself of combat-experienced leaders at critical stages of the conflict.

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...