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Preble Hall — 272 episodes

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1

Dr. David A. Smith - Alfred Thayer Mahan

2

Paul Magid - Pursuing the Leviathan

3

Don Preul - Curator of Ship Models

4

Captain James Bryant & Co - Rush to Disaster - Loss of the Thresher

5

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

6

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

7

Dr. Tyler Pitrof - Educating the Bluejackets

8

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

9

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

10

Tom Duffy - Tanker War in the Gulf

11

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

12

Doug Most - Launching Liberty

13

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

14

Paul Stillwell - Battleship New Jersey: The Complete History

15

Francis Ducoin - Monitor's Shield at Preble Hall

16

David Gendell - Battles at Annapolis

17

Craig Symonds - Annapolis Goes to War

18

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

19

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

20

Marc Leepson - Unlikely War Hero

21

Admiral James Stavridis and The Admiral's Bookshelf

22

From Ironclads to Admiral, John Lorimer Worden

23

Brian Dickinson: Calm in the Chaos

24

Operation Unified Assistance with Dr. John Sherwood

25

Army-Navy Game 2024 with NHHC's Christopher Havern

26

Last Days of the Schooner America with David Gendell

27

LtCol Tom Williams, USMC-Ret, Doorsteps of Hell

28

Navy SEAL Brandon Webb's novel "Steel Fear"

29

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

30

Dr David Winkler - Witness to Neptune's Inferno

31

Edward J. Marolda on Admirals Under Fire, Part II

32

Edward J. Marolda on Admirals under Fire, PT 1

33

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

34

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

35

David Petraeus on CONFLICT

36

Charles Lachman: Codename Nemo aka U-505

37

Ronald H. Spector on the Wars of Decolonization in Asia

38

Anselm van der Peet on the Netherlands Navy

39

Dr. Jeremy Stöhs: European Naval Power

40

CDR Randy Goguen - From Yeomanettes to Fighter Jets

41

Peters, Bruns, and the Institute for Security Policy Kiel

42

Dr. Sarah Kirchberger PLA Navy Part II

43

Dr. Sarah Kirchberger PLA Navy Part I

44

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

45

Interview with Dr. Cameron McCoy, Part 2

46

Interview with Dr. Cameron McCoy, Part 1

47

Interview with Acting SECNAV Thomas Modly, Part 2

48

Interview with Acting SECNAV Thomas Modly, Part 1

49

Good Luck Everyone

50

The Neptune Factor

51

Admiral Sir Ian Forbes

52

Vice Admiral Cutler Dawson

53

My Mids are Awesome

54

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

55

Naval Medicine

56

Areas of Operation during the Civil War

57

Andrew Blackley discusses his naval history articles

58

The Maine Maritime Museum

59

USMC Aviation in World War II & Midway

60

Soviet Amphibious Warfare

61

The Viking Sword

62

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

63

The Economics of Seapower

64

NATO Navies

65

Treasure Convoys, the Panama Route, and the Civil War

66

The Worst Military Leaders

67

Seapower vs Sea Power with Professor Andrew Lambert

68

19th Century African-Americans at the US Naval Academy

69

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

70

James Smith: Deconstructing the Seapower State

71

German Navy Wargaming in the 19th Century

72

Live from McMullen

73

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part 14 (Finale)

74

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part 13

75

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

76

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

77

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

78

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

79

Craig Symonds: Nimitz at War

80

Prisoners of the Bashaw: Frederick Leiner

81

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part 9: CNO

82

The Coastal Studies & Society Journal

83

Sustaining the Carrier War

84

Larrie Ferreiro - Churchill's American Arsenal

85

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part 8: CNO

86

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part VII - VCNO

87

Blue & Gold Series: Admiral Pat Walsh and Janie Mines

88

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part VI - N8

89

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

90

A Conversation on Naval History with Dr. Jerry Hendrix

91

On the Roof Gang: Early Navy Cryptologists

92

Question Time: By Gettysburg College Students

93

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

94

Remembering the Maine: 125 Years

95

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

96

Admiral Hyman Rickover: Engineer of Power

97

Mao's Army Goes to Sea

98

Small Boats and the Yom Kippur War

99

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part V - The late 1990s

100

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part IV

101

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

102

Naval History in the Classroom

103

The Virtual Memorial Wall

104

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part III

105

The CNO's Executive Panel & Transformation

106

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part II

107

Captain Harry Baldridge and the New Academy Museum

108

Admiral Mike Mullen, Part I

109

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

110

NHHC and Leyte Gulf

111

The Artist's Journey

112

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

113

Demolition Divers of WW2

114

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

115

From the North Pole to Nuclear Power: Admiral Al Kelln

116

The Museum at West Point

117

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

118

Millenium Challenge 2002: Being There

119

150th Episode Hotwash

120

Retrospective on Iraq & Afghanistan

121

Privateering in the American Revolution

122

Foreign Jack Tars

123

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

124

Napoleon's Escape from Elba: Evan Wilson

125

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

126

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

127

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

128

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

129

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

130

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

131

Naval Academy Sea Trials

132

Marine Insurance in the Early Republic: Hannah Farber

133

The Academy and Women's Suffrage in 1912

134

Captain Jim Lovell, USN (Ret)

135

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

136

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

137

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

138

Front toward Enemy: War, Veterans, and the Homefront

139

Confederate Boat Burners: Laura June Davis

140

Army Week 2021: Mark McCallister and Bill the Goat

141

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

142

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

143

Troublemakers in Tahiti: Consolation Prize

144

The Naval Air War in Vietnam: John Sherwood

145

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

146

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

147

Piracy, Revolution, Witchcraft, and War: Ben Schaffer

148

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

149

The Brown Water Navy in Vietnam: John Sherwood

150

Naval Science in the Nineteenth Century: Jason Smith

151

Teaching Epidemic History

152

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

153

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

154

A Maritime History Career: Bill Fowler

155

This Human Life: Walter Gibson, Part 3

156

This Human Life: Walter Gibson, Part 2

157

Phase 2 Trailer

158

This Human Life: Walter Gibson, Part 1

159

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

160

9/11 and the Office of Naval Intelligence

161

Scholars by the Sea, Episode 1: Professor Brian VanDeMark

162

Why Gallipoli?

163

Remembering Admiral Sam Gravely

164

The Top Three: Military Disasters

165

The Masqueraders and "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

166

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

167

Americans in the Mexican Navy and Army

168

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

169

Pirates of the Chesapeake, with Dr. Jamie Goodall

170

Teaching and the Practice of Naval History

171

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

172

Modern Navy History with Mark Vandroff and Jerry Hendrix

173

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

174

Naval Operations during the Franco-Prussian War

175

Historic Naval Ships

176

Generations

177

USMC Amphibious Operations and the Battle of Tarawa

178

Pearl Harbor

179

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

180

The Class of 1992's Great Mule Caper

181

The Shipwreck and Discovery of the USS Saginaw

182

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

183

Canadian World War II Flower-class Corvettes

184

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

185

Preserving Naval Academy Midshipmen Sacred Moments and Hijinks

186

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

187

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

188

When the Queen of Romania Visited the Naval Academy

189

The Modern Architecture of the Naval Academy

190

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

191

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

192

Stories from USNA 175 Year Anniversary: The Barber Shop

193

The Early Years of the U.S. Naval Academy

194

Navy Helicopters & The Gulf War and writing Historical Fiction

195

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

196

Inchon

197

Navy Reporting, with Chris Cavas

198

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

199

Daredevil Hero of the Civil War: Commander Will Cushing

200

21st Century Sims

201

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

202

A History of Annapolis through the War of 1812

203

Anglo-American Naval Relations, 1918-1953

204

The USS Kirk and the Evacuation of Saigon

205

Kriegspiel: Wargaming from Prussia to modern Germany

206

Navy Tattoos and the National Museum of the American Sailor

207

Honor, Heroism, and the Spanish-American War

208

Naval Wargaming at the U.S. Naval Academy

209

The Somers Mutiny and the Establishment of the Naval Academy

210

Service, Citizenship, & Starship Troopers

211

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

212

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

213

The Persian Empire and its Navy

214

Tiberius' Campaign into Germany, 4 AD- 5 AD

215

Raising the Monitor

216

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

217

The New Monuments Team and Cultural Heritage

218

The Lessons from Early Naval Academy Discipline

219

The American Revolution and Naval Irregular Warfare

220

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

221

NavyCon2020, Part III

222

NavyCon2020, Part II

223

NavyCon2020, Part I

224

Dunkirk and the Little Ships

225

The Navy Seabees: Rear Admiral Ben Moreell Speaks

226

The War of 1812 and Experiential Learning

227

The Seabees and Operation Overlord

228

The Case of Ensign Vernon "Copy" Berg

229

Teaching Leadership at the U.S. Naval Academy

230

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

231

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

232

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

233

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

234

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

235

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

236

The Antebellum Navy and the Filibusters

237

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

238

History of U.S. Navy Education and Reforms

239

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

240

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

241

The Academy's Shift to Online Teaching during COVID19

242

Aircraft Carrier Requirements and Strategies: 1977-2001

243

World War I and Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

244

Crimes in Command: 1945-1985

245

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

246

The Ming Dynasty Treasure Voyages and Zheng He

247

The U.S. Navy in World War I

248

Landing at Okinawa: A First-Hand Account

249

The End of Reconstruction and the New Navy

250

The Colonial Wars

251

The Shogunate Navy

252

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

253

Baseball and the Navy

254

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

255

Sink the Montana! Part II

256

Sink the Montana! Part I

257

The Legend and Reality of Philo McGiffin

258

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

259

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

260

Navy Boat Models: Craftsmanship, Techniques & Technologies

261

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

262

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

263

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

264

The Battle of Port Gamble with J. Overton

265

The Anglo-Dutch Wars

266

Episode 7: Jet Girl

267

The USNA Honor Concept, Rickover, & Naval Leadership

268

History of Maritime Irregular Warfare

269

Marines in the Spanish-American War

270

The Tripoli War with guest Dr. Abby Mullen

271

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

272

Nelson, Gunners & Impressment with guest Kate Jamieson