Global events abounded during the year the Naval Institute was founded.

As the U.S. Naval Institute celebrates its 125th anniversary, Naval History looks back on some of the people who have contributed to the pages of the organization's monthly magazine, Proceedings.

The “alpha” of its long naval line began with Commodore John Rodgers.

It is time Arthur L. Busch’s name made it into the spotlight.

Hardly a man now is alive who can remember standing a deck watch on a Japanese battleship under way in the broad Pacific.

The German ship’s captain used ingenuity to accomplish his task.

An eyewitness to the official end of World War II saw more than a momentous event.

At age 14, Frank Grom, Jr., told his mother, “I don’t want to go to school anymore. I want to join the Navy.”