Originally known as Maury Hall, the building was renamed in honor of the former president after a commission mandated by Congress determined that the name should be changed because its original ...

Previously, the 1907 structure was named for Matthew Fontaine Maury, who resigned his commission to serve in the Confederate Navy during the Civil War.

It was named in honor of Cmdr. James Harmon Ward, the first Navy officer killed in the U.S. Civil War. After her service against German U-boat forces in the Atlantic, she was used to support the ...

Read: Naval Academy Honors President Jimmy Carter, Drops Confederate Name from Building For years before his appointment to Annapolis, Carter memorized the entry requirements and fretted about ...

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"A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace." - Theodore Roosevelt "I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he ...

They educate you about the history of that place while also giving you ample space to connect it with your own history. Gary Ross’ ‘Free State of Jones’ is a dramatization of a revolt during the ...

Eyck Freymann is a Hoover fellow at Stanford University. Hugo Bromley is a research fellow at the Center for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge. China’s military exercises in the waters ...

Since Israel and Hamas went to war, reporters and editors at The New York Times have closely covered the conflict. Our coverage includes the Hamas-led attack on Israel, the plight of hostages, how ...