Rhode Island has a new Historian Laureate. Keith Stokes, a Newport resident, will serve in this role until April 2030.

I benefited from the opportunity to deliver an earlier version of this as the Naval War College Midway Lecture in 2009 and to a meeting of the Naval Order of the United States at Newport, Rhode Island ...

The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics Corp. a new $18.4 billion contract to produce two Virginia-class fast attack ...