Dr. David A. Smith - Alfred Thayer Mahan

In this episode of Preble Hall, Dr. David Smith, Teaching Professor of History in American History at Baylor University and a fleet professor in the U.S. Naval War College’s College of Distance Education, discusses his recently published work, Alfred Thayer Mahan: The Life of Maritime Strategy's Greatest Revolutionary, published by the Naval Institute Press.Dr. Stephen Phillips Shifley Lecture on the Naval Academy's move to Newport during the Civil War can be found here: Shifley Oct 2020