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The U.S. Naval Academy's International Programs Office & the Response to COVID19
CDR Tim Disher, USN (Ret), Director of the U.S. Naval Academy's International Programs Office discusses the exchange of midshipmen with other countries and the issues ...
Julius Caesar's Navy: The Gallic War and the Invasion of Britain
Dr. Jorit Wintjes of the University of Wurzberg discusses Julius Caesar's campaigns into Gaul, the Battle of Quiberon Bay with the Veneti, and his invasion of Britain.
The Academy's Shift to Online Teaching during COVID19
Dr.Karyn Sproles, Director of the U.S. Naval Academy's Center for Teaching & Learning, discusses the role of her office and how it worked with faculty to shift to onli...
Aircraft Carrier Requirements and Strategies: 1977-2001
Dr. Ryan Peeks, historian with the Naval History and Heritage Command, discussed the development of U.S. aircraft carriers from 1977-2001.
World War I and Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Christopher Havern, one of the historians at the Naval History & Heritage Command, discusses the sinking of the Lusitania and unrestricted submarine warfare during the...
Crimes in Command: 1945-1985
CAPT Michael Junge of the Naval War College and a former commanding officer of a ship discusses his research based on his doctoral dissertation about incidents at sea ...
U.S. Navy Chaplains, the Academy, & COVID19
Father Francis Foley, CAPT, U.S. Navy, is the Command Chaplain of the U.S. Naval Academy. In this episode, he discusses the history of Navy Chaplains, the structure an...
The Ming Dynasty Treasure Voyages and Zheng He
Maritime Archeologist Dr. Sarah Ward, a Visiting Professor at Dalian Maritime University's Center for Maritime History and Culture Research, discusses the 15th centur...
The U.S. Navy in World War I
Dr. Tommy Sheppard, with the Naval History & Heritage Command's Documentary History, discusses the role of the U.S. Navy during World War I and its leaders.
Landing at Okinawa: A First-Hand Account
Among the U.S. Naval Academy Museum's collection of 60,000 paintings, artifacts, and manuscripts are recordings. Several years ago, the Museum transferred two pallets...
The End of Reconstruction and the New Navy
Doctoral candidate Colin McConarty of Boston College's History Department discusses his work "A Final Solution of the Negro Question: Southern Democrats, the New Navy ...
The Colonial Wars
For a century before the American Revolution, the great powers of Europe fought land and naval wars in the Western Hemisphere. Grant Walker, a curator at the Naval Ac...
The Shogunate Navy
Dr. Nyri Bakkalian discusses mid-19th century Japan and the factors that led to the rise of Japan's navy as well as three U.S. Naval Academy alumni who are part of tha...
Collections at the U.S. Navy's Oldest Museum: The Naval Academy Museum
How do you donate something to a museum? What do you donate? Do museums accept everything donated? Naval Academy Museum Managing Director Charles Swift and Senior Cura...
Baseball and the Navy
Megan Churchwell, Curator of Bremerton's Puget Sound Navy Museum, discusses their recently concluded exhibit "When Baseball Went to War," a history of baseball and the...
The 10,000-Day War at Sea: Telling the Story of the Navy during the Vietnam War
Hampton Roads Naval Museum Director John Pentangelo and Director of Education Laura Orr discuss the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War and the special exhibit currently ...
Sink the Montana! Part II
Episode Summary In 1986, at the height of the Cold War, GI Joe released an episode featuring the @USSConstitution rescuing the Atlantic Fleet from the rogue battleship...
Sink the Montana! Part I
In 1986, at the height of the Cold War, GI Joe released an episode featuring the @USSConstitution rescuing the Atlantic Fleet from the rogue battleship USS Montana. In...
The Legend and Reality of Philo McGiffin
Philo McGiffin was not a mythical graduate of the US Naval Academy, but a real life 19th century student who became a Chinese naval officer, superintendent of the Chin...
Wings on the Severn: Naval Aviation in Annapolis, 1911-1961
What was the real birthplace of U.S. naval aviation? Ken Sabel discusses its birth and growth at the U.S. Naval Academy and Naval Station in Annapolis.
Royal Navy Incidents at Sea, 1939-40 with Dr. Alexander Clarke
The Royal Navy is associated as an organisation with a code of honour, a high moral standard and a rule based conduct. Yet in four key episodes; the Tsingtao Incident,...
Navy Boat Models: Craftsmanship, Techniques & Technologies
Curator of Ship Models at the U.S. Naval Academy Museum discusses the craftmanship, technologies and history behind boat model construction and restoration.
Home Squadron: The U.S. Navy and North Atlantic Station with Dr. Chris Rentfrow
In the post-Civil War period, the U.S. established a squadron on the Atlantic Coast. Dr. Chris Rentfrow discusses how it evolved and the role of squadron exercises.
Historical Eras of U.S. Navy Innovation with Dr. Jerry Hendrix
Dr. Jerry Hendrix, former Director of the Naval History and Heritage Command, discusses the 1890s, the Interwar Years, and the 1950s as historical eras of innovation f...
Britain, the Royal Navy and the Barbary States with Dr. Caitlin Gale
While the U.S. Navy was fighting off Tripoli (1801-1805), the Royal Navy had larger concerns in a great power competition. Dr. Caitlin Gale discusses British diplomac...
The Battle of Port Gamble with J. Overton
The Battle of Port Gamble is a little known story of an 1856 naval action in the new Washington territory. Our guest discusses the battle and lessons learned for the ...
The Anglo-Dutch Wars
Grant Walker, one of the curators at the U.S. Naval Academy Museum and author, discusses the 17th century Anglo-Dutch Wars.
Episode 7: Jet Girl
CAROLINE JOHNSON was an F/A-18 Weapons Systems Officer (WSO) in the US Navy. During her deployment aboard the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier, she flew missions ...
The USNA Honor Concept, Rickover, & Naval Leadership
A U.S. Naval Academy midshipman interviews Vice Admiral James Sagerholm, President of the Class of 1952 who, with others, created the honor concept in 1951 that is sti...
History of Maritime Irregular Warfare
Navy Lieutenant Kai Cumpston of the U.S. Naval Academy's History Department discusses a history of irregular warfare in maritime operations from Sir Francis Drake to U...