The countdown begins: National Coast Guard Museum one year from opening
The 80,000-square-foot National Coast Guard Museum is slated to open the week of the service's 237th anniversary.
By Patricia Kime
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25 years later, ‘Band of Brothers’ still resonates
The seminal HBO miniseries about World War II paratroopers is remembered by actors, who will participate in a symposium at the National WWII Museum.
By Dave Kindy
Presidents’ Day pause: How ‘Uncle Sam’s Web-feet’ helped swing an election for Abe Lincoln
The U.S. Navy's triumph at Mobile Bay, combined with victorious Federal ground campaigns in Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia, helped reelect Abraham Lincoln and doomed the Confederacy to defeat.
By Gerald D. Swick, Civil War Times Magazine
Born a slave, this Navy petty officer founded a community of ‘race pioneers’ to stand against bigotry
Meet the remarkable Allen Allensworth, the slave who became a sailor, then a soldier and then an inspiration to a country divided by racial injustice.
By B. Gordon Wheeler, Wild West
Jesse L. Brown: the son of a sharecropper who became a Navy hero
He overcame hardship and prejudice in his quest for 'Wings of Gold.'
By Ron Edwards, Aviation History Magazine
Sometimes, a good man has to take a hatchet to a bad man’s skull.
The captain’s stateroom looked like a slaughterhouse.
By Jonathan W. White, Civil War Times Magazine
The Art of War: How combat artists are capturing the soul of the Marine Corps
“Go to war, do art” is now the battle cry of the Marine combat artists.
By Andrea Scott
How did you land a plane on a Navy ship in 1911? Very, very carefully
On January 18, 1911, Eugene Ely landed the Curtiss biplane on a deck erected on the cruiser Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay. He was aided by a tailhook — the first ever — and arrestor cables attached to sandbags.
By HistoryNet
Man achieves goal to bury the father he never knew, a World War II veteran, with military honors
Having waited 64 years for the reunion, Rex Beach struggled to leave his father's casket when the time came.
By Shane Hoover, The (Canton, Ohio) Repository via the AP
What would happen if Amelia Earhart disappeared today?
Eight decades later, planes still go missing — but it’s getting harder to fly off the map.
By Brian Strzempkowski and Shawn Pruchnicki, The Ohio State University
Whatever happened to the Merrimack’s brass bell?
Well, it's complicated.
By Katherine Hafner, The Virginian-Pilot
This famous Navy warship sank on New Year’s Eve
"Our little vessel was lost, and we, in months gone by, had learned to love her, felt a strange pang go through us as we remembered that never more might we tread her deck, or gather in her little cabin at evening."
By Olav Thulesius, Civil War Times Magazine