Category: Blog

Day of Victories

The Face (and Stuff) of John Lord

All That Glitters: The U.S. Navy Uniform Regulations of 1802

A Victorious September

Another Old Ironsides

Rehearsal Aboard Old Ironsides

Some Notes on Navy Biscuit

Constitution in the Charlestown Navy Yard

A New Song for the Fourth of July (1815)

For now we see through a glass

A Letter for Father’s Day

The cost of dying in the Federal Navy

The Axeman Cometh

An Offering to Valor

A Veteran’s Story

Water, water, everywhere

Get the Lead Out

A Marblehead Escape

A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad four days

Hot Shot

A Gun by Any Other Name

All the Comforts of Home

Freedom by Positive Proof: Two Tales of Sailors in the Old South

Hot Stuff: Chocolate and the U.S. Navy

Slip Shod: The Truth about Early Navy Shoes

Sail Loft and Petting Zoo: Boston’s Old Granary and Constitution’s First Suit of Sails

Head Lines

Forging Ahead

Deck the Decks

USS Constitution and the Day of Infamy