In this episode of Preble Hall author Rod Andrew Jr. discusses his book The Marines' Fight for Survival War, Politics, and Institutional Crisis, 1945–1952 with Sondra Duplantis, the U. S. Naval Academy Museum's Education Specialist. Rod Andrew Jr. is professor of history and Alumni Master Teacher at Clemson University. The author of six books, he is a retired colonel in the US Marine Corps Reserve and former officer-in-charge, Field History Branch, US Marine Corps History Division.

In this episode of Preble Hall, Dr. David Smith, Teaching Professor of History in American History at Baylor University and a fleet professor in the U.S. Naval War College’s College of Distance Education, discusses his recently published work, Alfred Thayer Mahan: The Life of Maritime Strategy's Greatest Revolutionary, published by the Naval Institute Press.

Dr. Stephen Phillips Shifley Lecture on the Naval Academy's move to Newport during the Civil War can be found here: Shifley Oct 2020

In this episode of Preble Hall, author Paul Magid discusses his book Pursuing the Leviathan: The Heroic Life of New England Whaling Captain Benjamin Clough with Sondra Duplantis, the U. S. Naval Academy Museum's Education Specialist.

Set in the golden age of whaling in the nineteenth century, this book brings to life the adventures of Benjamin Clough, best known for single-handedly rescuing the ship Sharon from mutineers in 1842. Clough's heroism earned him a whaling command, which led to a whaling career that for a quarter-century took him into the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic Oceans.