Harold D. Langley has served as an archivist at the University of Pennsylvania Library and Library of Congress, a diplomatic historian for the U.S. Department of State, a professor at The Catholic University of America, and as an associate curator of naval history at the National Museum of American History. The author of A History of Medicine in the Early U.S. Navy, he resides in Arlington, VA.

Articles by Harold Langley

Windfalls of War

By Harold D. Langley
June 1998
Controversies surrounding the allocation of bounty and prize money among the naval victors of Manila Bay and Santiago after the Spanish-American War played a role in halting the monetary awards.

Book Reviews

Reviewed by Commander Tyrone G. Martin, U.S. Navy (Retired) & Harold D. Langley
April 1999
Jester’s Fortune Dewey Lambdin. New York: Dutton, 1999. 373 pp. $25.95 ($23.35). Reviewed by Commander Tyrone G. Martin, U.S. Navy (Retired) After three years of silence, Alan Lewrie is back ...

The Grass Roots Harvest of 1828

By Harold D. Langley
October 1964
In 1827, however, the plight of the frigate Delaware, confirmed an intrepid Secretary of the Navy’s conviction that he must go in search of “robust and healthy landsmen in the ...