Naval History and Heritage Command

Digital editions of the following publications, broadly categorized by subject, are available on this website. Unless otherwise noted, titles are publications of Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) and its predecessor organizations.

Conflict or Time Period

American Revolution and Early Navy

Civil War

Early 20th-Century Conflicts

World War I

World War II

Korean War

Cuban Missile Crisis

Vietnam War

Topic

Naval Aviation

The U.S. Navy and Space Exploration

Histories of Fleets, Shore Establishments, and Agencies

Histories of Types of  U.S. Navy Operations

Histories of Significant U.S. Navy Strategies, Plans, and Policies

U.S. Navy Historiography 

Colloquia

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American Revolution and Early Navy

• Naval Documents of the American Revolution (13 volumes)
  
  
• The Constitution Gun Deck
  
  
• Register of Officer Personnel: U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and Ships' Data, 1801-1807
  
  
• John Paul Jones's Locker: The Mutinous Men of the Continental Ship Ranger and the Confinement of Lieutenant Thomas Simpson by Jonathan Feld. NHHC Histories Branch article detailing an important, but lesser-known incident from Jones's naval career. 
  
  
• Officers of Peculiar Skill: Petty and Forward Officers of the U.S. Navy, 1797–1860  by Michael J. Crawford. Monograph by NHHC's senior historian discussing shipboard functions, service details, and career paths of early U.S. Navy petty and warrant officers. 
  
  
• Sea Stories: Forays into American Naval History During the Age of Sail  by Michael J. Crawford. A collection of the NHHC senior historian's papers and presentations, covering a variety of fascinating—and often long-forgotten—aspects of naval history.

Civil War

• The Autobiography of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren (NHHC "Contributions to Naval History" No. 8). Dahlgren's legacy to the Navy is profound and lasting. His contributions to ship armament and design include the ingenious Dahlgren gun, which became the Navy's chief ordnance during the Civil War. 

Early 20th-Century Conflicts

• The Boxer Rebellion: Bluejackets and Marines in China, 1900–1901. This monograph analyzes the U.S. military’s first taste of coalition warfare on the global stage. 

World War I

• Digest Catalogue of Laws and Joint Resolutions: The Navy and the World War
• The Navy's First Enlisted Women: Patriotic Pioneers  (NHHC "World War I Commemorative Series" monograph)
• Ensuring the Lifeline to Victory: Antisubmarine Warfare, Convoys, and Allied Cooperation in European Waters During World War I (NHHC "World War I Commemorative Series" monograph)

World War II

• Winning a Future War: War Gaming and Victory in the Pacific War
• Richmond Kelly Turner: Planning the Pacific War (NHHC "U.S. Navy Operations in World War II" commemorative monograph)
• Operation Torch: The American Amphibious Assault on French Morocco, 1942 (NHHC "U.S. Navy Operations in World War II" commemorative monograph)
• Galvanic: Beyond the Reef—Tarawa and the Gilberts, November 1943 (NHHC "U.S. Navy Operations in World War II" commemorative monograph)
• “Calmness, Courage, and Efficiency”: Remembering the Battle of Leyte Gulf (NHHC "U.S. Navy Operations in World War II" commemorative monograph)
• United States Submarine Losses: World War II
• Guide to United States Naval Administrative Histories of World War II
• A Grave Misfortune: The USS Indianapolis Tragedy (NHHC "Contributions to Naval History" No. 7)
• World War II Office of Naval Intelligence Combat Narratives

Korean War

• History of U.S. Naval Operations in Korea
• Assault from the Sea: The Amphibious Landing at Inchon

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Cordon of Steel: The U.S. Navy and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Vietnam War

• War in the Shallows: U.S. Navy Coastal and Riverine Warfare in Vietnam 1965-68

• By Sea, Air, and Land

• "The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War" series
  • Volume 1: The Approaching Storm: Conflict in Asia, 1945-1965
  • Volume 2: Nixon’s Trident: Naval Power in Southeast Asia, 1968-1972
  • Volume 3: The Battle Behind Bars: Navy and Marine POWs in the Vietnam War
  • Volume 4: Navy Medicine in Vietnam: Passage to Freedom to the Fall of Saigon 
  • Volume 5: Combat at Close Quarters: Warfare on the Rivers and Canals of Vietnam
  • Volume 6: Naval Air War: The Rolling Thunder Campaign
  • Volume 7: Knowing the Enemy: Naval Intelligence in Southeast Asia
  • Volume 8: Fourth Arm of Defense: Sealift and Maritime Logistics in the Vietnam War
  • Volume 9: End of the Saga: The Maritime Evacuation of South Vietnam and Cambodia

Naval Aviation

• United States Naval Aviation, 1910-2010

• Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons

  • Volume 1: The History of VA, VAH, VAK, VAL, VAP and VFA Squadrons

  • Volume 2: The History of VP, VPB, VP(HL) and VP(AM) Squadrons

• A History of U.S. Navy Aviation (Technical Note No. 18, Series of 1930; publication of the U.S. Navy Department, Bureau of Aeronautics)

• Naval Aviation in World War I (publication of the Chief of Naval Operations)

• The First Flight Across the Atlantic (publication of the National Air and Space Museum)

• Naval Aviation Combat Statistics: World War II (publication of the Office of Naval Intelligence)

• U.S. Naval Aviation in the Pacific (publication of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations)

• Evolution of Aircraft Carriers (publication of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations)

• Aircraft Carrier Requirements and Strategy, 1977-2001 (NHHC "Contributions to Naval History" No. 9)

• Wings Over the Ocean: A History of Sea-Air Aviation

• Naval Aviation 1911-1986: A Pictorial Study (publication of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations [Air Warfare] and the Commander, Naval Air Systems Command)

• "75th Year of Naval Aviation: Commemorative Collection" series (Volume 1, publication of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations [Air Warfare]; Volumes 2 through 5, publications of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations [Air Warfare] and the Commander, Naval Air Systems Command)

  • Volume 1: Naval Aviation Training

  • Volume 2: Pistons to Jets

  • Volume 3: U.S. Naval Air Reserve

  • Volume 4: Kite Balloons to Airships…the Navy’s Lighter-Than-Air Experience

  • Volume 5: U.S. Marine Corps Aviation

The U.S. Navy and Space Exploration

• Space and the United States Navy

• From the Sea to the Stars: A Chronicle of the U.S. Navy’s Space and Space-Related Activities, 1944-2009 (publication of Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy [C³I and Space])

Histories of Fleets, Shore Establishments, and Agencies

• History of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 1915-2015
• Ready Seapower: A History of the U.S. Seventh Fleet
• Anchor of Resolve: A History of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/Fifth Fleet
• The Washington Navy Yard: An Illustrated History
• Tingey House: Silent Witness to Our Navy's History

Histories of Types of U.S. Navy Operations

• Mud, Muscle, and Miracles: Marine Salvage in the United States Navy

• Riverine Warfare: The U.S. Navy’s Operations on Inland Waters

Histories of Significant U.S. Navy Strategies, Plans, and Policies

• Our Greatest Strength: Navy Wives and the Manpower Crisis in the 1970s Navy

U.S. Navy Historiography

• Needs and Opportunities in the Modern History of the U.S. Navy

Partnerships and International Relations

• "Maritime Partnership Studies" series

  • You Cannot Surge Trust

  • Networking the Global Maritime Partnership (publication of Sea Power Centre - Australia)

• The World Cruise of the Great White Fleet: Honoring 100 Years of Global Partnerships and Security

Colloquia

Colloquium on Contemporary History 1989-98: Selected proceedings of the Colloquium on Contemporary History, a conference series sponsored by the Naval Historical Center (NHHC's predecessor organization) from 1989 to 1998.

• No. 1: A Time of Change: National Strategy in the Early Postwar Era
• No. 2: Caribbean Tempest: The Dominican Republic Intervention of 1965
• No. 3: A New Equation: Chinese Intervention into the Korean War
• No. 4: Command and Control of Air Operations in the Vietnam War
• No. 5: Gearing Up for Victory: American Military and Industrial Mobilization in World War II
• No. 6: Stalin's Cold War Military Machine: A New Evaluation
• No. 7: A New Look at the Cuban Missile Crisis
• No. 8: Inter-Allied Naval Relations and the Birth of NATO
• No. 9: "More Bang for the Buck": U.S. Nuclear Strategy and Missile Development 1945-1965
• No. 10: Conflict and Cooperation: U.S. and Soviet Navies in the Cold War
• No. 11: Tet: The Turning Point in Vietnam