Naval Historical Foundation

03/24/2023

Lessons in heroism, but also leadership, forgiveness, morality, and humanity from former POW Porter Halyburton. Inspiring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCLM1CJoLwk&list=PLWX4R7nG6a8k_aeOSJP5qAEf66Qz0fiRn&index=1

03/15/2023

“Like previous flights, I am undertaking this one solely because I want to, and because I feel that women now and then have to do things to show what women can do," wrote Amelia Earhart to President Roosevelt on her plans to circumnavigate the globe

Letters from Amelia Earhart to President Roosevelt detail her plans to circumnavigate the globe.

12/28/2022

The U.S. Naval Institute is maintaining and preserving the former Naval Historical Foundation website so readers and former NHF members can still access past issues of Pull Together and other content. NHF has decommissioned and is no longer accepting new members or donations. NHF members are being converted to members of the Naval Institute. If you have questions, please contact the Naval Institute via email at [email protected] or by phone at 800-233-8764.

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07/05/2022

In honor of , check out our video series on "Understanding Bikini Atoll" we produced back in 2016 on our YouTube page.

Naval History and Heritage Command Historian Dr. Frank Blazich discusses the history behind Operation Crossroads from a U.S. Navy perspective.

06/21/2022

Appeal For Assistance
Captain John Hebert Dent Memorial Fund

We recently received an email from an individual asking for assistance in sprucing up the neglected gravesite of Captain John Hebert Dent, a naval officer that served during the Quasi-War, First Barbary War, and the War of 1812. He was the acting captain of USS Constitution during the attacks on Tripoli in 1804. Captain Dent is buried in a neglected plot in Jacksonboro, South Carolina, in Bethel Cemetery. His goal is to raise funds to better serve the memory of Captain Dent and his service to the United States.

He writes: "Since your organization’s mission is to promote the rich history and heritage of the United States Navy, I thought you would like to join us in honoring Captain Dent. He was one of the Navy’s outstanding and respected officers, one who contributed so much to the legacy of the fledgling United States Navy and our emerging nation. I invite the Naval Historical Foundation to join us in honoring the memory of Captain John Hebert Dent."

You can read the full text of the appeal below.

https://www.navyhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/DOC051322-05132022083933.pdf

06/20/2022

At the outbreak of the Civil War, the Union Navy only had 7,600 personnel. Manpower was was further drained by defections to the Confederacy. Freedmen and escaped slaves flocked to enlist, especially because the Navy was less restrictive than the Army. By the war's end, 18,000 men and 11 women of African descent had served in the Navy, at one point accounting for 23% of all Union sailors.

06/20/2022

"In our current era of artificial intelligence/machine learning, unmanned vehicles, and drones these histories of past significant technologies present lessons to be learned. This thoughtfully innovative, well-written and well-researched synthesis of key technologies – tools, weapons, and platforms – is fact-filled and a wonderful primer useful for understanding the history of the individual technologies and their interrelationships with others, even beyond the six detailed in this unusual and welcome book for navy bookshelves."

Read Charles Kolb's review of "Innovating Victory: Naval Technology in Three Wars" on our website.

Reviewed by Charles C. Kolb, Ph.D. Vincent P. O'Hara is an independent naval historian and the author of thirteen works, including Six Victories: North Africa, Malta, and the Mediterranean Convoy War, November 1941-March 1942 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2019) and with Leonard R. Heinz, Clash....

06/18/2022

06/16/2022

In case you missed it, you can watch our 2022 Annual Meeting and Leighton Lecture in its entirety on our YouTube page.

2022 Naval Historical Foundation Annual MeetingFeaturing the Leighton Lecture, with Patrick O'Donnell