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Preble Hall — 268 episodes

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1

MU1 Tyler Tolles - USNA Band and 200th Anniversary of the Musician Rate

2

Thomas Cutler - Give Me a Fast Ship - The Heroic Actions of Ernest Evans and the Crew of USS Johnston

3

Dr. Tyler Pitrof - Educating the Bluejackets

4

Dr. Justin Laborde - Scattered Far and Wind - the USNA Class of 1938

5

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

6

Tom Duffy - Tanker War in the Gulf

7

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

8

Doug Most - Launching Liberty

9

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

10

Paul Stillwell - Battleship New Jersey: The Complete History

11

Francis Ducoin - Monitor's Shield at Preble Hall

12

David Gendell - Battles at Annapolis

13

Craig Symonds - Annapolis Goes to War

14

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

15

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

16

Marc Leepson - Unlikely War Hero

17

Admiral James Stavridis and The Admiral's Bookshelf

18

From Ironclads to Admiral, John Lorimer Worden

19

Brian Dickinson: Calm in the Chaos

20

Operation Unified Assistance with Dr. John Sherwood

21

Army-Navy Game 2024 with NHHC's Christopher Havern

22

Last Days of the Schooner America with David Gendell

23

LtCol Tom Williams, USMC-Ret, Doorsteps of Hell

24

Navy SEAL Brandon Webb's novel "Steel Fear"

25

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

26

Dr David Winkler - Witness to Neptune's Inferno

27

Edward J. Marolda on Admirals Under Fire, Part II

28

Edward J. Marolda on Admirals under Fire, PT 1

29

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

30

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

31

David Petraeus on CONFLICT

32

Charles Lachman: Codename Nemo aka U-505

33

Ronald H. Spector on the Wars of Decolonization in Asia

34

Anselm van der Peet on the Netherlands Navy

35

Dr. Jeremy Stöhs: European Naval Power

36

CDR Randy Goguen - From Yeomanettes to Fighter Jets

37

Peters, Bruns, and the Institute for Security Policy Kiel

38

Dr. Sarah Kirchberger PLA Navy Part II

39

Dr. Sarah Kirchberger PLA Navy Part I

40

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

41

Interview with Dr. Cameron McCoy, Part 2

42

Interview with Dr. Cameron McCoy, Part 1

43

Interview with Acting SECNAV Thomas Modly, Part 2

44

Interview with Acting SECNAV Thomas Modly, Part 1

45

Good Luck Everyone

46

The Neptune Factor

47

Admiral Sir Ian Forbes

48

Vice Admiral Cutler Dawson

49

My Mids are Awesome

50

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

51

Naval Medicine

52

Areas of Operation during the Civil War

53

Andrew Blackley discusses his naval history articles

54

The Maine Maritime Museum

55

USMC Aviation in World War II & Midway

56

Soviet Amphibious Warfare

57

The Viking Sword

58

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

59

The Economics of Seapower

60

NATO Navies

61

Treasure Convoys, the Panama Route, and the Civil War

62

The Worst Military Leaders

63

Seapower vs Sea Power with Professor Andrew Lambert

64

19th Century African-Americans at the US Naval Academy

65

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

66

James Smith: Deconstructing the Seapower State

67

German Navy Wargaming in the 19th Century

68

Live from McMullen

69

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part 14 (Finale)

70

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part 13

71

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

72

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

73

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

74

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

75

Craig Symonds: Nimitz at War

76

Prisoners of the Bashaw: Frederick Leiner

77

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part 9: CNO

78

The Coastal Studies & Society Journal

79

Sustaining the Carrier War

80

Larrie Ferreiro - Churchill's American Arsenal

81

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part 8: CNO

82

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part VII - VCNO

83

Blue & Gold Series: Admiral Pat Walsh and Janie Mines

84

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part VI - N8

85

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

86

A Conversation on Naval History with Dr. Jerry Hendrix

87

On the Roof Gang: Early Navy Cryptologists

88

Question Time: By Gettysburg College Students

89

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

90

Remembering the Maine: 125 Years

91

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

92

Admiral Hyman Rickover: Engineer of Power

93

Mao's Army Goes to Sea

94

Small Boats and the Yom Kippur War

95

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part V - The late 1990s

96

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part IV

97

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

98

Naval History in the Classroom

99

The Virtual Memorial Wall

100

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part III

101

The CNO's Executive Panel & Transformation

102

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part II

103

Captain Harry Baldridge and the New Academy Museum

104

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part I

105

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

106

NHHC and Leyte Gulf

107

The Artist's Journey

108

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

109

Demolition Divers of WW2

110

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

111

From the North Pole to Nuclear Power: Admiral Al Kelln

112

The Museum at West Point

113

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

114

Millenium Challenge 2002: Being There

115

150th Episode Hotwash

116

Retrospective on Iraq & Afghanistan

117

Privateering in the American Revolution

118

Foreign Jack Tars

119

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

120

Napoleon's Escape from Elba: Evan Wilson

121

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

122

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

123

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

124

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

125

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

126

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

127

Naval Academy Sea Trials

128

Marine Insurance in the Early Republic: Hannah Farber

129

The Academy and Women's Suffrage in 1912

130

Captain Jim Lovell, USN (Ret)

131

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

132

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

133

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

134

Front toward Enemy: War, Veterans, and the Homefront

135

Confederate Boat Burners: Laura June Davis

136

Army Week 2021: Mark McCallister and Bill the Goat

137

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

138

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

139

Troublemakers in Tahiti: Consolation Prize

140

The Naval Air War in Vietnam: John Sherwood

141

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

142

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

143

Piracy, Revolution, Witchcraft, and War: Ben Schaffer

144

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

145

The Brown Water Navy in Vietnam: John Sherwood

146

Naval Science in the Nineteenth Century: Jason Smith

147

Teaching Epidemic History

148

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

149

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

150

A Maritime History Career: Bill Fowler

151

This Human Life: Walter Gibson, Part 3

152

This Human Life: Walter Gibson, Part 2

153

Phase 2 Trailer

154

This Human Life: Walter Gibson, Part 1

155

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

156

9/11 and the Office of Naval Intelligence

157

Scholars by the Sea, Episode 1: Professor Brian VanDeMark

158

Why Gallipoli?

159

Remembering Admiral Sam Gravely

160

The Top Three: Military Disasters

161

The Masqueraders and "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

162

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

163

Americans in the Mexican Navy and Army

164

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

165

Pirates of the Chesapeake, with Dr. Jamie Goodall

166

Teaching and the Practice of Naval History

167

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

168

Modern Navy History with Mark Vandroff and Jerry Hendrix

169

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

170

Naval Operations during the Franco-Prussian War

171

Historic Naval Ships

172

Generations

173

USMC Amphibious Operations and the Battle of Tarawa

174

Pearl Harbor

175

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

176

The Class of 1992's Great Mule Caper

177

The Shipwreck and Discovery of the USS Saginaw

178

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

179

Canadian World War II Flower-class Corvettes

180

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

181

Preserving Naval Academy Midshipmen Sacred Moments and Hijinks

182

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

183

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

184

When the Queen of Romania Visited the Naval Academy

185

The Modern Architecture of the Naval Academy

186

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

187

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

188

Stories from USNA 175 Year Anniversary: The Barber Shop

189

The Early Years of the U.S. Naval Academy

190

Navy Helicopters & The Gulf War and writing Historical Fiction

191

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

192

Inchon

193

Navy Reporting, with Chris Cavas

194

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

195

Daredevil Hero of the Civil War: Commander Will Cushing

196

21st Century Sims

197

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

198

A History of Annapolis through the War of 1812

199

Anglo-American Naval Relations, 1918-1953

200

The USS Kirk and the Evacuation of Saigon

201

Kriegspiel: Wargaming from Prussia to modern Germany

202

Navy Tattoos and the National Museum of the American Sailor

203

Honor, Heroism, and the Spanish-American War

204

Naval Wargaming at the U.S. Naval Academy

205

The Somers Mutiny and the Establishment of the Naval Academy

206

Service, Citizenship, & Starship Troopers

207

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

208

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

209

The Persian Empire and its Navy

210

Tiberius' Campaign into Germany, 4 AD- 5 AD

211

Raising the Monitor

212

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

213

The New Monuments Team and Cultural Heritage

214

The Lessons from Early Naval Academy Discipline

215

The American Revolution and Naval Irregular Warfare

216

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

217

NavyCon2020, Part III

218

NavyCon2020, Part II

219

NavyCon2020, Part I

220

Dunkirk and the Little Ships

221

The Navy Seabees: Rear Admiral Ben Moreell Speaks

222

The War of 1812 and Experiential Learning

223

The Seabees and Operation Overlord

224

The Case of Ensign Vernon "Copy" Berg

225

Teaching Leadership at the U.S. Naval Academy

226

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

227

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

228

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

229

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

230

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

231

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

232

The Antebellum Navy and the Filibusters

233

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

234

History of U.S. Navy Education and Reforms

235

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

236

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

237

The Academy's Shift to Online Teaching during COVID19

238

Aircraft Carrier Requirements and Strategies: 1977-2001

239

World War I and Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

240

Crimes in Command: 1945-1985

241

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

242

The Ming Dynasty Treasure Voyages and Zheng He

243

The U.S. Navy in World War I

244

Landing at Okinawa: A First-Hand Account

245

The End of Reconstruction and the New Navy

246

The Colonial Wars

247

The Shogunate Navy

248

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

249

Baseball and the Navy

250

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

251

Sink the Montana! Part II

252

Sink the Montana! Part I

253

The Legend and Reality of Philo McGiffin

254

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

255

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

256

Navy Boat Models: Craftsmanship, Techniques & Technologies

257

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

258

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

259

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

260

The Battle of Port Gamble with J. Overton

261

The Anglo-Dutch Wars

262

Episode 7: Jet Girl

263

The USNA Honor Concept, Rickover, & Naval Leadership

264

History of Maritime Irregular Warfare

265

Marines in the Spanish-American War

266

The Tripoli War with guest Dr. Abby Mullen

267

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

268

Nelson, Gunners & Impressment with guest Kate Jamieson