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Exploration through the Ages
Retrace the steps of the great explorers from ancient Egypt to the North Pole and beyond...

 
     
 

USS Monitor: History and Legacy
This Civil War ironclad was a technological marvel; explore her continuing story.

  Monitor, History and Legacy
     
 

Chesapeake Bay: Our History and Our Future
From the Powhatan Indians to modern shipbuilding, explore the character of the nation’s largest estuary.

  Raking in Shallow Water. Harper's Weekly, January 4, 1890
     
 

Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas
They arrived in chains, but their contributions have forged new links in the history of the Americas.

  Sailor's Sea Chest from the Brig Sultan, circa 1850s, FC11
     
 

Battle of the Atlantic: Allied Naval Intelligence in World War II
While German U-boats wrecked havoc on merchant shipping in the Atlantic, Allied intelligence worked diligently to break the enemy's communication codes.

  Allied Tanker Burning off Norfolk, Virginia, US Navy photograph in the collection of The Mariners' Museum
     
 

Birth of the Navy
Follow the US on its journey to becoming the world’s leading naval power.

  Birth of the Navy, E 178 E48
     
 

Women and the Sea
She used to remain on shore, but today, she captains the ship.

  The Heroic Action of Miss Ida Lewis, 1869, From Harper's Weekly,April 17, 1869, The Mariners' Museum Research Library and Archives
     
 

Waters of Despair, Waters of Hope
African-Americans have played an important role in the history and economy of the Chesapeake Bay – from 1619 to today.

  Shelling an Oyster Bed near Irvington, Virginia, circa 1950, A. Aubrey Bodine, photographer, The Mariners' Museum, P 5120 BOD
     
 

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