Naval History Magazine

Highlights from Naval History

John Rodgers: Midwife to the Ironclad

By Lieutenant Commander Andrew Roscoe, U.S. Navy Reserve

June 2023

Ultimately, no other officer did as much for the Navy to push it into this new and untired technology and to make it the success that led to victory at...

The First Book Ever Published by the Naval Institute

By Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. Cutler, U.S. Navy (Retired)

June 2023

A gunboat’s Spanish-American War experiences led to the launching of a publishing program that has stood the test of time.

Reflections of a Battleship Sailor

By Dick Ramsey with Ed Offley

June 2023

From the Battle of the Atlantic to the Normandy Invasion to the Battle of Okinawa, the USS Nevada experienced in full the “two-ocean war.”

So You Want to Interview a Kamikaze

By Fred Schultz

April 2023

"The reason for my being here is to fill the void in my own memory, not to condemn or judge the past at a national level."

A Legacy of Naval Book Publishing

By Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. Cutler, U.S. Navy (Retired)

June 2023

Since 1898, the U.S. Naval Institute’s book division has been producing works of lasting importance both to the Navy and to all who love naval history.

A Bloody Encounter in the North Atlantic

By Ed Offley

June 2023

When U-boats attacked Convoy HX-228 in March 1943, an unusually fierce fight broke out that would claim a U.S. Liberty ship, a British destroyer, and two U-boats.