THG's Year in Review

In 1891, British humorist Jerome K. Jerome wrote that “Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve, they start telling each other ghost stories.”

A Busy Week

The Battle of Caldera Bay was a brief battle that had little impact on a short and largely forgotten war. And yet the naval doctrines of the entire world were changed in a single moment.

Well known among people who study the history of firearms, John Moses Browning’s achievements are far less understood by the general public.

USS-Holland, generally recognized as the first modern submarine to be adopted by a major Navy, was a forerunner of the technology that is still central to naval warfare today. But its designer, John Philip Holland, would be nearly forgotten.