Gaddis Smith, expert on U.S. foreign relations and 'spellbinding orator'
A renowned scholar of American foreign relations and maritime history and the Larned Professor Emeritus of History, Smith died on Dec. 2. He was 90.
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A renowned scholar of American foreign relations and maritime history and the Larned Professor Emeritus of History, Smith died on Dec. 2. He was 90.
Teaching Race & Slavery in the American Classroom 24th Annual Conference Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center at Yale University Thursday—Saturday, November 3-5, 2022
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Marine Corps Col. Stephen E. Liszewski has a ritual when he returns to his home each day. He looks up at a sign tucked just below the dentil moulding on the imposing portico. The gold leaf lettering has darkened and its paint crackled with age, but it brings a smile to his face. It reads: "Commandant's Quarters."
In June 1911, the secretary of the Navy authorized the establishment of an “aerodrome” at Greenbury Point Annapolis. Construction of a runway and hangar commenced in July 1911 and was completed in October, becoming the first naval air station.