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Sea Change at Annapolis: The United States Naval Academy, 1949-2000

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Since 1845, the USA Naval Academy has prepared professional military leaders at its Annapolis, Maryland, campus. Even though it remains steeped in a culture of tradition and discipline, the Academy isn’t impervious to change. Dispelling the myth that the Academy is a bastion of tradition unmarked by progress, H. Michael Gelfand examines challenges to the Naval Academy’s culture from both outside and inside the Academy’s walls between 1949 and 2000, an era of dramatic social change in American history.

Drawing on more than two hundred oral histories, extensive archival research, and his own participatory commentary on the Academy, Gelfand demonstrates that events at Annapolis reflect the transformation of American culture and society at large in the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. In eight chapters, he discusses recruiting and minority midshipmen, the end of mandatory attendance at religious products and services, women’s experiences as they sought and achieved admission and later served as midshipmen, and the responses of a couple of generations of midshipmen to societal changes, particularly all the way through the Vietnam War era. This cultural history not only sheds light on events on the Naval Academy but also offers a novel standpoint on democratic ideals in the USA.

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