Members of the Navy Department Library conduct a virtual tour of the historic collection through various spaces and detail the history of the library to what it has become today. (U.S. Navy video by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jalen D. Walton)
WASHINGTON NAVY YARD – Within the buildings that make up Naval History and Heritage Command, there are corridors of archives. The long aisles of documents, hosted at the Washington Navy Yard, are home to one of the Navy’s most comprehensive documentation of naval operations, the Command Operations Report.
WASHINGTON NAVY YARD – As the country celebrates National American Indian Heritage Month this November, the Navy finds itself at a cultural intersection between its own proud history and the equally proud lineage of the Cherokee Nation.
Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) hosted a special symposium
at the National Museum of the U.S. Navy (NMUSN) Nov. 9, as part of the 100th anniversary commemoration of the return of the Unknown Soldier to U.S. soil.
The Archivists at the United States Navy Archives perform many different tasks. The Reference Archivists provide reference services to the public and to the fleet by providing information and access to archival materials and collections. Before these archival materials and collections can be made available though, they have to be processed. The Processing Archivists work behind the scenes to make this possible.
