Last week, Answer Man wrote about the fascinating life of the Thomas Jefferson statue that stands in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. Today, he’d like to delve a little deeper into the fascinating ...
In March 1850, Herman Melville published White Jacket, or the World in a Man-of-War, a novelized memoir of his experiences in the South Seas aboard a U.S. Navy vessel. Melville’s vivid depiction of ...
On September 28, 1850, President Millard Filmore signed the 1851 naval appropriations bill, which abolished flogging as a form of punishment in the US Navy. Learn more about the history of flogging in ...
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