Online Publications on United States Coast Guard Records and History
This section is a quick reference guide to articles and blogs published in the National Archives’ various social media outlets relating to the United States Coast Guard.
Last updated on May 16, 2022
Prologue Magazine:
- “In Freedom’s Shadow: The Reconstruction Legacy of Renty Franklin Greaves of Beaufort County, South Carolina” (2010)
- “Patrolling the Coastline on Wheels: Patrolling the Coastline on Wheels” (2009)
- “The Christmas Tree Ship: Captain Herman E. Schuenemann and the Schooner Rouse Simmons” (2006)
- “Racial Identity and the Case of Captain Michael Healy, USRCS, Part 3” (1997)
- “Buddies: Soldiers and Animals in World War II” (1996)
The Text Message Blog:
- “Shipwrecked! Shipwrecks Found in the Records of the National Register of Historic Places” (2021)
- “Tales of the Revenue Cutter Service and True Crime from The Collector of Customs at Boston” (2021)
- “Transcription Discoveries” (2021)
- “Assignment: Neah Bay, Washington, 1909; The United States Revenue-Cutter Service and the USRC Snohomish” (2020)
- “April Is National Poetry Month! Let’s Enjoy Some USCG Poems” (2019)
- “Caleb Brewster” (2017)
- “The Japanese Government’s Offer of Assistance to Help Find Amelia Earhart, July 1937” (2017)
- ‘“A Rumbling Fearful Noise’: Charleston Earthquake of 1886” (2013)
- “Before ‘Your Show of Shows’: Sid Caesar and the Coast Guard” (2011)
- “Navy/Maritime Records at Archives I” (2011)
Pieces of History Blog:
- “Facial Hair Friday: Those Bearded Battles of the Blizzard Belt” (2022)
- “First Lady of Law: Mabel Walker Willebrandt” (2021)
- “Is it Governor’s Island or Governors Island?” (2020)
- “NARA Shout Out in Remote Places: Montara Light Station” (2019)
- “After the Fire: Peter Waters Helps Save Water-Damaged Records” (2013)
- “Thursday Photo Caption Contest: March 15” (2012)
- “History Crush: Alexander Hamilton” (2012)
The Unwritten Record Blog:
- “Lantern Slides of Lighthouses” (2021)
- “Life-Saving Stations of Maryland: Drawings from RG 26, Maps and Plans for Lifesaving Stations” (2021)
- “Lantern Slides of the Revenue Cutter Service, 1900–1915” (2020)
- “Rescue from Fire Island” (2019)
- “It’s a Dog’s Job…” (2019)
- “The Further Adventures of Sinbad” (2018)
- “Bad Boys” (2018)
- “Shining a Light on Montauk Point Lighthouse in Honor of Lighthouse Day” (2018)
- “Their War Too: U.S. Women in the Military During WWII. Part I” (2018)
- “The Digitization of 26-LG” (2017)
- “Lighthouse Drawings in Celebration of National Lighthouse Day” (2016)