• Gary E. Weir, Editorial: Focusing on the Process of Doing History
• John B. Hattendorf, The Uses of Maritime History in and for the Navy

From the Annual Meeting of the Society for History in the Federal Government (USA), 2003

• Joseph – James Ahern, “We had the hose turned on us!” Ross Gunn and The Naval Research Laboratory’s Early Research into Nuclear Propulsion, 1939 – 1946
• Gary E. Weir, From Surveillance to Global Warming: John Steinberg and Ocean Acoustics
• Eric Hazell, The Navy’s Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation (RDT&E) Management Archives
• David van Keuren, Society for History in the Federal Government 2003 Session on Research and Development in the U.S. Navy

• David Curtis Skaggs. Thomas Macdonough: Master of Command in the Early U.S. Navy. Reviewed by Michael J. Crawford.
• Bill Carter and Merri Sue Carter. Latitude: How American Astronomers Solved the Mystery of Variation. Reviewed by Steven J. Dick.
• James H. Ellis. Mad Jack Percival: Legend of the Old Navy. Reviewed by Christine F. Hughes.
• Joseph F. Callo, Nelson in the Caribbean: The Hero Emerges, 1784-1787. Reviewed by Douglas McLean.
• Charles J. Gross. American Military Aviation: The Indispensable Arm. Reviewed by John Darrell Sherwood.