Lectures

CIVIL WAR BATTLES

Battle of Hampton Roads
Battle of Williamsburg

Battle of Big Bethel
Battle of Craney Island
Battle of Drewry's Bluff
Battle of the Ironclads
Battle of Mobile Bay
Battle of Port Hudson
Battle of Port Royal Sound
Battle of Trent's Reach
Capture of Fort Fisher
Capture of New Orleans
Capture of Hatteras Inlet
DuPont's Attack on Charleston
Siege of Fort Macon

CIVIL WAR SHIPS

Sinking of USS Cumberland
CSS Alabama vs. USS Hatteras
Sinking of USS Alabama
CSS Albemarle
CSS Arkansas
CSS Virginia
USS Mississippi: Ship of Manifest Destiny
USS Monitor
USS Somers
Union Ironclads

CIVIL WAR PERSONALITIES

Admiral David Glasgow Farragut
Samuel Chapman Armstrong of Hawaii
Franklin Buchanan: First Admiral CSN
Ben Butler and the Contrabands
Lincoln and the Capture of Norfolk
The Monitor Boys
Honorable Robert Smalls
Rear Admiral John Worden: A Hero For All Times

CIVIL WAR

History of Grog
Civil War Scandals
You Say Merrimac, I say Virginia!
Passaic-Class Monitors
Pook's Turtles: City Class Ironclads
Roanoke Island Campaign

NAVAL HISTORY

Evolution of Naval Ordinance
The Battle That Forever Changed Naval Warfare
Battle of Lissa
Battle of the Nile

AMERICAN HISTORY

Blackbeard The Pirate
1781 Battle of the Capes
Brigadier General William "Billy" Mitchell: Father of U.S. Military Aviation

EMANCIPATION HISTORY

Nat Turner's Rebellion
Four Freedom Fighters from Southampton County
Pathways to Emancipation
Slave Conspiracies at Sea
Ben Butler and the Contrabands

HAMPTON ROADS HISTORY

Hilton Village: Garden City Movement
1862 Peninsula Campaign
Chesapeake Bay Log Canoes
Curtis Flying School
Defending Hampton Roads
Fort Monroe during the Civil War
Founding of Newport News
Great White Fleet
Hampton Roads Transportation: Canals, Railroads, Tunnels
The Huntingtons
Newport News Shipyard: First Fifty Years
Old Point Comfort Resort
Siege of Yorktown
What is Hampton Roads?
World War I on the Virginia Peninsula
World War I Port of Embarkation

Image Credits:

Battle of Williamsburg--Gen. Hancock's charge, May 5, 1862. Public Domain, Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

The Sinking of the Cumberland. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

David Glasgow Farragut. Courtesy of the Naval History and Heritage Command #NH 49523.

Monitor Blend Handbill. Courtesy of the Mariner's Museum #2008.0011.000001.

IX-inch Dahlgren Shell Gun, Bermuda Hundred Campaign. Courtesy of the National Archives.

Capture of Blackbeard. Public Domain. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Nat Turner and His Confederates in Conference. Public Domain, Courtesy of the New York Public Library #1229308.

Hilton Village, Post Avenue Looking Towards Warwick Blvd. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Fortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort, & Hygeia Hotel, Va. in 1861 & 1862--The Key to the South. Courtesy of Library of Congress #LC-DIG-pga-08137.

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