Author Steven Ujifusa will discuss his book called A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States. The book will be available for purchase and signing by the author after the talk. The book is not only about the United States, as storied a ship as

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Zumwalt: The Life and Times of Admiral Elmo “Bud” Russell Zumwalt, Jr. by Larry Berman, Harper Collins Publishers The United States Navy Memorial presents an ongoing series of free lecture programs on the sea services. During the one-hour programs, authors will discuss their books, take questions from the audience and sign their books, which will

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A lecture with David J. Ulbrich, Ph.D. During the Great Depression, the U.S. Marine Corps fell to less than 18,000 men and its budgets slipped to $20 million in 1936. At this low point, Thomas Holcomb became Marine Corps Commandant. Over the next seven years, he directed the Corps’ incredible growth to 385,000 Marines with

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As part of the United States Navy Memorial’s Authors on Deck book lecture series, author Chipp Reid will present his latest work, Intrepid Sailors: The Legacy of Preble’s Boys and the Tripoli Campaign. (Naval Institute Press; October 9, 2012).  Intrepid Sailors tells the story of Commodore Edward Preble and the legendary efforts of “Preble’s Boys”

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As part of the United States Navy Memorial’s “Authors on Deck” book lecture series, author Christopher Bell will present his latest work, Churchill and Sea Power (Oxford University Press, 2012).  Bell addresses a surprisingly neglected aspect of Winston Churchill's career: his attitude to sea power. Churchill's relationship to the Royal Navy was closer and more

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As part of the United States Navy Memorial’s “Authors on Deck” book lecture series in honor of Black History Month, author Bland Simpson will present his literary work, Two Captains from Carolina: Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt, and the Coming of the Civil War (University of North Carolina Press; September 2012).  Two Captains from Carolina

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As part of the United States Navy Memorial’s “Authors on Deck” book lecture series, former U.S. Navy SEAL trainer, star of the 2012 box-office hit Act of Valor and author Rorke Denver will present his first work, DAMN FEW: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior (Hyperion, February 2013).  In his book, Denver speaks with unparalleled knowledge

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The Maritime Committee of the Maryland Historical Society is co-sponsoring with the University of Baltimore a book-talk on Friday evening, February 22, 2013. The author is Professor Paul Gilje, whose new book is called Free Trade and Sailors' Rights in the War of 1812. To be published by the Cambridge University Press. Organizers expect the

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Linda Kush, the author of The Rice Paddy Navy U.S. Sailors Undercover in China, will speak about her book at the International Spy Museum on noon on Tuesday March 5th. The event is free and open to the public. After the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1942, the US Navy knew it

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Visit the USS Constitution Museum on Captain Isaac Hull's birthday as Linda Maloney, author of the soon-to-be re-released biography, The Captain from Connecticut: The Life and Naval Times of Isaac Hull, takes you on a visit with Hull between wars, revealing his complex social life and search for love. Maloney brings the man in the

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Sunk in Kula Gulf tells the story of USS Helena’s final voyage and the epic struggle of her survivors. Those sailors fought for life in the hours and days that followed the warship’s sinking on July 6, 1943. Some were rescued the night of the sinking as the sea battle continued to rage, but the

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In the March edition of the United States Navy Memorial’s  “Authors on Deck” book lecture series, author John J. Domagalski will read from his latest work, Sunk in Kula Gulf: The Final Voyage of the USS Helena and the Incredible Story of Her Survivors in World War II  (Potomac Books; September 2012). Using a wide

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