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  • USS Mississippi: Ship of the Manifest Destiny    

    • Civil War
    • Military Conflict

    Matthew Calbraith Perry guided the US Navy’s transition from sail to steam and shot to shell. It was he who recognized how these new tools would ensure the Navy’s ability to project American trade and power throughout the world.

  • Capture of New Orleans: Farragut’s Rise to Fame

    • Civil War
    • Military Conflict

    While it was ever so critical for the Confederacy to maintain control of New Orleans, events elsewhere, especially in Tennessee, resulted in the city having inadequate defenses and naval support. 

  • Conservation Update: Turret Knife

    • Civil War
    • Conservation
    • Cultural Heritage
    • Hampton Roads History
    • USS Monitor

    An update on the conservation treatment for a bone-handled knife found in the concretion of the turret.

  • The First Ironclad Emerges: Battle of the Head of Passes

    • Civil War
    • Military Conflict
    • Shipbuilding

    When the Civil War erupted, Confederate Secretary of the Navy Stephen Russell Mallory knew that the South could only counter and defeat the larger US Navy if ironclads were employed.

  • Expending USS Monitor’s condenser

    • Civil War
    • Conservation
    • Cultural Heritage
    • Hampton Roads History
    • Technology
    • USS Monitor

    In order to conserve these complex pieces of machinery, a large part of our job is to disassemble them. This allows for appropriate treatment of the different materials.

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