In the years between World War I and II, the U.S. military had ambitious and prescient ideas for war in the Pacific.

On Nov. 14, 1910, Eugene B. Ely became the first aviator to take off from a ship as his Curtiss “Pusher” biplane lifted off the deck of the cruiser USS Birmingham off Hampton Roads, Virginia. The ...

The ships, including USS Constitution, were created to fight "Algerine corsairs," also known as Barbary Pirates.

The mutiny aboard the Bounty is famous, but the aftermath was far more brutal than Hollywood ever showed. Cast adrift with 18 ...

Downtown Norfolk should be considered for the future home of the Navy Museum, Norfolk Historical Society board member Michael ...

NORFOLK, Va. — For the Navy, 2023 has been a year of firsts. Captain Janet Days became the first Black woman to become the commanding officer of Naval Station Norfolk for the first time in the base's ...

The chair of the Naval Academy History Department resigned after reportedly being ordered by the academy’s superintendent to remove a previously approved paper from the list of those to be presented ...

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Navy museum. Re “Let’s bring the Navy museum home to Norfolk” (Other Views, Nov. 23): I believe historians and city leaders from Norfolk and Portsmouth should endorse this p ...

Monday’s removal of Naval Academy Commandant Capt. Gilbert Clark Jr. caps off a year of rough waters at the Annapolis college ...