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How the Navy got Lincoln to dance a jig in his nightshirt
The brilliant Union firsts during the battle for North Carolina's coast.
By Ron Soodalter, America's Civil War
Latest "Outer Banks" stories
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Weird stuff washes up on North Carolina’s Outer Banks
Recent flotsam and jetsam: a bagged body, UXO, rocket parts, rotting whale carcasses, Navy trash tossed overboard.
By Jeff Hampton, The Virginian-Pilot
Undefended shore: American antisubmarine operations in 1942
In 1942 American merchant ships up and down the Atlantic Coast were being relentlessly attacked by German U-boats. Why did the U.S. Navy secretly decide to leave them unprotected?
By Ed Offley, MHQ — The Quarterly Journal of Military History
Wood from Blackbeard’s flagship has become ‘very precious’
Storms, strong currents and shipworms have destroyed all but a few remaining pieces of the famed Queen Anne's Revenge, which capsized 300 years ago.
By Jeff Hampton, The Virginian-Pilot