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Preble Hall — 264 episodes

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1

Dr. Stephen Phillips - A Poisoned Chalice: The U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf, 1987-1988

2

Tom Duffy - Tanker War in the Gulf

3

Dr. Shawn Callahan - Semper Fidelis - USMC 250th Anniversary Book

4

Doug Most - Launching Liberty

5

Chas Henry - Fuji Fire: Sifting Ashes of a Forgotten U.S. Marine Corps Tragedy

6

Paul Stillwell - Battleship New Jersey: The Complete History

7

Francis Ducoin - Monitor's Shield at Preble Hall

8

David Gendell - Battles at Annapolis

9

Craig Symonds - Annapolis Goes to War

10

Mike Fink: Intrepid's Fighting Squadron 18 - Flying High With Harris' Hellcats

11

Will Wright & U.S. Naval Academy's 150th Anniversary Postal Stamp

12

Marc Leepson - Unlikely War Hero

13

Admiral James Stavridis and The Admiral's Bookshelf

14

From Ironclads to Admiral, John Lorimer Worden

15

Brian Dickinson: Calm in the Chaos

16

Operation Unified Assistance with Dr. John Sherwood

17

Army-Navy Game 2024 with NHHC's Christopher Havern

18

Last Days of the Schooner America with David Gendell

19

LtCol Tom Williams, USMC-Ret, Doorsteps of Hell

20

Navy SEAL Brandon Webb's novel "Steel Fear"

21

Marine General Kenneth F. “Frank” McKenzie Jr., Ret.

22

Dr David Winkler - Witness to Neptune's Inferno

23

Edward J. Marolda on Admirals Under Fire, Part II

24

Edward J. Marolda on Admirals under Fire, PT 1

25

Dr. Abby Mullen: The United States in the First Barbary War, 1800-1805

26

Dr. Sam Limneos: Honor at the Naval Academy, 1845-1875

27

David Petraeus on CONFLICT

28

Charles Lachman: Codename Nemo aka U-505

29

Ronald H. Spector on the Wars of Decolonization in Asia

30

Anselm van der Peet on the Netherlands Navy

31

Dr. Jeremy Stöhs: European Naval Power

32

CDR Randy Goguen - From Yeomanettes to Fighter Jets

33

Peters, Bruns, and the Institute for Security Policy Kiel

34

Dr. Sarah Kirchberger PLA Navy Part II

35

Dr. Sarah Kirchberger PLA Navy Part I

36

Captain Brett Crozier, USN-Ret, Surf While You Can

37

Interview with Dr. Cameron McCoy, Part 2

38

Interview with Dr. Cameron McCoy, Part 1

39

Interview with Acting SECNAV Thomas Modly, Part 2

40

Interview with Acting SECNAV Thomas Modly, Part 1

41

Good Luck Everyone

42

The Neptune Factor

43

Admiral Sir Ian Forbes

44

Vice Admiral Cutler Dawson

45

My Mids are Awesome

46

Questioning the Carrier Opportunities in Fleet Design for the U.S. Navy

47

Naval Medicine

48

Areas of Operation during the Civil War

49

Andrew Blackley discusses his naval history articles

50

The Maine Maritime Museum

51

USMC Aviation in World War II & Midway

52

Soviet Amphibious Warfare

53

The Viking Sword

54

Vice Admiral Doug Crowder, USN (ret) and "Sea Stories"

55

The Economics of Seapower

56

NATO Navies

57

Treasure Convoys, the Panama Route, and the Civil War

58

The Worst Military Leaders

59

Seapower vs Sea Power with Professor Andrew Lambert

60

19th Century African-Americans at the US Naval Academy

61

New York Times Journalist John Ismay, US Naval Academy Class of 1999

62

James Smith: Deconstructing the Seapower State

63

German Navy Wargaming in the 19th Century

64

Live from McMullen

65

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part 14 (Finale)

66

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part 13

67

Captain Benjamin Armstrong: Naval Presence and the Interwar U.S. Navy and Marine Corps

68

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part 12: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

69

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part 11: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs (Cont)

70

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part 10: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

71

Craig Symonds: Nimitz at War

72

Prisoners of the Bashaw: Frederick Leiner

73

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part 9: CNO

74

The Coastal Studies & Society Journal

75

Sustaining the Carrier War

76

Larrie Ferreiro - Churchill's American Arsenal

77

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part 8: CNO

78

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part VII - VCNO

79

Blue & Gold Series: Admiral Pat Walsh and Janie Mines

80

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part VI - N8

81

The Golden Fourteen: The First African American Women to Officially Serve in the U.S. Armed Forces

82

A Conversation on Naval History with Dr. Jerry Hendrix

83

On the Roof Gang: Early Navy Cryptologists

84

Question Time: By Gettysburg College Students

85

Royal Navy Officers in the Early Eighteenth Century: CDR Ryan Mewett

86

Remembering the Maine: 125 Years

87

The 70th Secretary of the Navy, John Dalton, USNA '64

88

Admiral Hyman Rickover: Engineer of Power

89

Mao's Army Goes to Sea

90

Small Boats and the Yom Kippur War

91

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part V - The late 1990s

92

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part IV

93

Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

94

Naval History in the Classroom

95

The Virtual Memorial Wall

96

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part III

97

The CNO's Executive Panel & Transformation

98

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part II

99

Captain Harry Baldridge and the New Academy Museum

100

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part I

101

CDR David Bruhn - On the Gunline: U.S. Navy Warships off Vietnam

102

NHHC and Leyte Gulf

103

The Artist's Journey

104

A Great and Rising Nation: US Naval Expeditions of the 19th Century

105

Demolition Divers of WW2

106

Sailors, Caribbean Trade, and National Boundaries in the Late Nineteenth Century

107

From the North Pole to Nuclear Power: Admiral Al Kelln

108

The Museum at West Point

109

Secrets in Depth by CDR Joseph Dituri, USN-Ret, PhD

110

Millenium Challenge 2002: Being There

111

150th Episode Hotwash

112

Retrospective on Iraq & Afghanistan

113

Privateering in the American Revolution

114

Foreign Jack Tars

115

LCDR Stephenson and the wreck of USS Johnston (DD 557)

116

Napoleon's Escape from Elba: Evan Wilson

117

Great Power Competition: The US, the UK & Torpedoes in the early 20th Century

118

Interview with Kit Chellel co-author of "Dead in the Water"

119

Forgetting the Maritime Strategy: The Naval Career of Peter M. Swartz, Part 4

120

Interview with Captain Wendy Lawrence, USN-Ret, 1st USNA Woman in Space

121

From OP-60 to Colin Powell: The Naval Career of Peter M. Swartz, Part 3

122

USS Impervious and Mine Countermeasures in Desert Storm: Capt David Jackson

123

Naval Academy Sea Trials

124

Marine Insurance in the Early Republic: Hannah Farber

125

The Academy and Women's Suffrage in 1912

126

Captain Jim Lovell, USN (Ret)

127

The Birth of the Strike Fighter: The Naval Career of Joseph Dyer

128

Rendering Safe an unexploded Exocet missile aboard USS Stark (FFG-31)

129

To Rule the Waves: Dr. Bruce Jones and the Critical Role of the Oceans in Modern Life

130

Front toward Enemy: War, Veterans, and the Homefront

131

Confederate Boat Burners: Laura June Davis

132

Army Week 2021: Mark McCallister and Bill the Goat

133

President Tyler, USS Princeton (1843), and the Peacemaker Explosion

134

OP-60 and the Maritime Strategy: The Naval Career of Peter M. Swartz, Part 2

135

Troublemakers in Tahiti: Consolation Prize

136

The Naval Air War in Vietnam: John Sherwood

137

From Pigs and Chickens to OP-60: The Naval Career of Peter M. Swartz, Part 1

138

Draper Kauffman and the UDT in World War II: Guy Nasuti

139

Piracy, Revolution, Witchcraft, and War: Ben Schaffer

140

How (and Why) do We Teach History to Naval Officers?

141

The Brown Water Navy in Vietnam: John Sherwood

142

Naval Science in the Nineteenth Century: Jason Smith

143

Teaching Epidemic History

144

The USS Samuel B. Roberts Mine Strike: Captain Paul Rinn, USN-Ret

145

The Flying Aircraft Carrier: Airships and Early Experiments in Scout Aviation

146

A Maritime History Career: Bill Fowler

147

This Human Life: Walter Gibson, Part 3

148

This Human Life: Walter Gibson, Part 2

149

Phase 2 Trailer

150

This Human Life: Walter Gibson, Part 1

151

Au revoir: The "Eleventy-First" and Final Episode for the Museum's Director.

152

9/11 and the Office of Naval Intelligence

153

Scholars by the Sea, Episode 1: Professor Brian VanDeMark

154

Why Gallipoli?

155

Remembering Admiral Sam Gravely

156

The Top Three: Military Disasters

157

The Masqueraders and "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

158

Reflections on the Cold War from North Korea to the Strategic Defense Initiative, with VADM Bob Monroe, USN (Ret)

159

Americans in the Mexican Navy and Army

160

2021 Bancroft Lecture at the Academy: Dr. Vincent Brown, "Charting the Course of an Atlantic Slave War."

161

Pirates of the Chesapeake, with Dr. Jamie Goodall

162

Teaching and the Practice of Naval History

163

On Contested Shores: The Evolving Role of Amphibious Operations in the History of Warfare

164

Modern Navy History with Mark Vandroff and Jerry Hendrix

165

Merchant Ships in World War II: the Maritime Commission's Emergency Shipbuilding Program

166

Naval Operations during the Franco-Prussian War

167

Historic Naval Ships

168

Generations

169

USMC Amphibious Operations and the Battle of Tarawa

170

Pearl Harbor

171

Academy Graffiti: Cultural Anthropology at the U.S. Naval Academy

172

The Class of 1992's Great Mule Caper

173

The Shipwreck and Discovery of the USS Saginaw

174

Operation Sea Signal, with General Mike Williams, USMC (Ret)

175

Canadian World War II Flower-class Corvettes

176

The Brooklyn Naval Lyceum and its Impact on the US Navy and Naval Academy

177

Preserving Naval Academy Midshipmen Sacred Moments and Hijinks

178

USNA 175th Anniversary: Staff of the Academy - Mr. Garry Williams

179

Special Collections & Archives of the U.S. Naval Academy

180

When the Queen of Romania Visited the Naval Academy

181

The Modern Architecture of the Naval Academy

182

"The Most Intense Game of Battleship": Wargaming at the US Naval Academy

183

USNA 175th Anniversary: Significant Eras, Leaders, and the City of Annapolis

184

Stories from USNA 175 Year Anniversary: The Barber Shop

185

The Early Years of the U.S. Naval Academy

186

Navy Helicopters & The Gulf War and writing Historical Fiction

187

Barons of the Sea: The Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship

188

Inchon

189

Navy Reporting, with Chris Cavas

190

To the Last Man: A National Guard Regiment in the Great War, 1917-1919

191

Daredevil Hero of the Civil War: Commander Will Cushing

192

21st Century Sims

193

From Belleau Wood to Guadalcanal: Marine Corps Commandant General Thomas Holcomb

194

A History of Annapolis through the War of 1812

195

Anglo-American Naval Relations, 1918-1953

196

The USS Kirk and the Evacuation of Saigon

197

Kriegspiel: Wargaming from Prussia to modern Germany

198

Navy Tattoos and the National Museum of the American Sailor

199

Honor, Heroism, and the Spanish-American War

200

Naval Wargaming at the U.S. Naval Academy

201

The Somers Mutiny and the Establishment of the Naval Academy

202

Service, Citizenship, & Starship Troopers

203

The Slave's Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of 1812

204

"I was there": How Anderson v. Laird Affected One USNA Midshipman

205

The Persian Empire and its Navy

206

Tiberius' Campaign into Germany, 4 AD- 5 AD

207

Raising the Monitor

208

COVID19 and Decision-Making at the U.S. Naval Academy, with guest VADM Sean Buck

209

The New Monuments Team and Cultural Heritage

210

The Lessons from Early Naval Academy Discipline

211

The American Revolution and Naval Irregular Warfare

212

The U.S. Navy, the American Colonization Society, and Liberia

213

NavyCon2020, Part III

214

NavyCon2020, Part II

215

NavyCon2020, Part I

216

Dunkirk and the Little Ships

217

The Navy Seabees: Rear Admiral Ben Moreell Speaks

218

The War of 1812 and Experiential Learning

219

The Seabees and Operation Overlord

220

The Case of Ensign Vernon "Copy" Berg

221

Teaching Leadership at the U.S. Naval Academy

222

The Traditions of the U.S. Naval Academy Commissioning Weeks and Graduations

223

The U.S. Naval Academy Library Past, Present, and Future

224

The US Navy & the Development of High Steam Engines, Part II: 1941-45

225

The US Navy & the Development of High Steam Engines, Part I: 1930-1940

226

The Making of Fleet Admiral Ernest King, Pt 2: 1941-1945

227

The Making of Fleet Admiral Ernest King, Part I: 1878-1941

228

The Antebellum Navy and the Filibusters

229

The Royal Canadian Navy and the 75th Anniversary of Battle of the Atlantic

230

History of U.S. Navy Education and Reforms

231

The U.S. Naval Academy's International Programs Office & the Response to COVID19

232

Julius Caesar's Navy: The Gallic War and the Invasion of Britain

233

The Academy's Shift to Online Teaching during COVID19

234

Aircraft Carrier Requirements and Strategies: 1977-2001

235

World War I and Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

236

Crimes in Command: 1945-1985

237

U.S. Navy Chaplains, the Academy, & COVID19

238

The Ming Dynasty Treasure Voyages and Zheng He

239

The U.S. Navy in World War I

240

Landing at Okinawa: A First-Hand Account

241

The End of Reconstruction and the New Navy

242

The Colonial Wars

243

The Shogunate Navy

244

Collections at the U.S. Navy's Oldest Museum: The Naval Academy Museum

245

Baseball and the Navy

246

The 10,000-Day War at Sea: Telling the Story of the Navy during the Vietnam War

247

Sink the Montana! Part II

248

Sink the Montana! Part I

249

The Legend and Reality of Philo McGiffin

250

Wings on the Severn: Naval Aviation in Annapolis, 1911-1961

251

Royal Navy Incidents at Sea, 1939-40 with Dr. Alexander Clarke

252

Navy Boat Models: Craftsmanship, Techniques & Technologies

253

Home Squadron: The U.S. Navy and North Atlantic Station with Dr. Chris Rentfrow

254

Historical Eras of U.S. Navy Innovation with Dr. Jerry Hendrix

255

Britain, the Royal Navy and the Barbary States with Dr. Caitlin Gale

256

The Battle of Port Gamble with J. Overton

257

The Anglo-Dutch Wars

258

Episode 7: Jet Girl

259

The USNA Honor Concept, Rickover, & Naval Leadership

260

History of Maritime Irregular Warfare

261

Marines in the Spanish-American War

262

The Tripoli War with guest Dr. Abby Mullen

263

The Punic Wars and Experiential Learning with guest Prof. Kelcy Sagstetter

264

Nelson, Gunners & Impressment with guest Kate Jamieson