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If You Wrote a Witty Deck Log Poem for New Year’s, It Could Win You a Piece of Old Ironsides

by Geoff Ziezulewicz1/10/20231/10/2023

The Naval History and Heritage Command is looking for the best deck log poems for their annual New Year’s Day deck log poem contest.

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Sikh Voices from the Trenches of World War I

by Sukwinder Singh Bassi1/9/20231/9/2023

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How ‘St. Crispin’s Day’ Was Shakespeare’s Master Class in Giving Battle Speeches

by HistoryNet staff12/19/202212/21/2022

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This Ukrainian Poet Is Inspiring Freedom—Over 100 Years After His Death

by Taras Shevchenko11/10/202211/10/2022

“Any Kind Of Writing Is Cathartic”: Why Former Naval Aviator Don Purdy Uses Poetry to Describe His War in Vietnam

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher2/20/20222/24/2022

Ode to a Patriot: Poetry of the Spanish Civil War

by Miguel Hernández8/10/20218/10/2021

The Nightingale’s Lament: Poetry of Rebellion

by Sarojini Naidu5/11/20215/11/2021

Collateral Casualties: Poetry of the Second World War

by Colin McIntyre 3/2/20213/2/2021

Amanda Gorman Drew Inspiration from History to Deliver Inaugural Poem

by Claire Barrett1/21/20211/26/2021

From the Grave: Miklós Radnóti’s Last Postcard

by Miklós Radnóti12/15/202012/15/2020