Naval Historical Foundation

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The Naval Historical Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1926, has a broad mission to preserve and promote U.S. naval history. Support for the Navy's historical programs, and in particular the United States Navy Museum, makes up a significant aspect of that mission. The Foundation performs a myriad of functions including collecting and preserving documents on American naval history and managing oral history, naval heritage speakers, symposia, and naval history writing programs.

Important cataloged naval documents are available to researchers at the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Washington, DC. The Foundation solicits artifacts, photographs, and documents and ensures that they are donated to an appropriate repository within the Naval Historical Center. The Foundation operates a historical research service and a reproduction service drawing on the Center's extensive photographic and cruise book collections. The Foundation also runs the United States Navy Museum Gift Shop that features presentation gifts such as the Truxtun Bowl and The Navy coffee table book along with Naval Historical Center and Foundation books and pamphlets.

The Foundation, with the Naval Historical Center, publishes Pull Together, a full-color newsletter for Foundation members. Articles cover all aspects of American naval history, including narrative and eyewitness accounts of naval battles and operations, biographical studies, announcements of upcoming events, book notices and reviews. The editorial staff welcomes article submissions.

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