The Navy Art Collection reflects on the Spanish-American War. The war was conflict fought between the U.S. and Spain from between April and December of 1898. The war resulted in Spain relinquishing its claims to Cuba and ceding Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines to the United States. Navy Art Reflects is a video series intended to showcase and educate the public on events, people, and time frames from U.S. Naval history through the various art works held in the Navy Art Collection.
Within the buildings that make up Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC), there are corridors of archives. The long aisles of documents, hosted at the Washington Navy Yard, are home to one of the Navy’s most comprehensive documentation of naval operations, the Command Operations Report (COR).
For over two centuries the U.S. Navy has operated across the globe, each ship documenting its every move. The meticulous time keeping and tracking of a ship’s events and movements provide the Navy with detailed records for historical safekeeping. Entries made 24 hours a day, seven days a week without fail can get rather repetitive so in keeping with the holiday spirit the Navy has a time-honored tradition – the New Year’s Deck Log poem...
WASHINGTON NAVY YARD – Naval History and Heritage Command released its newest publication, Best Beloved: The Wartime Letters of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz to His Wife, Catherine, online, Nov. 19, 2024.
WASHINGTON NAVY YARD – Naval History and Heritage Command released its newest publication, The U.S. Navy and Innovation: Twentieth-Century Case Studies, online, September 24, 2024.
