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This lecture is number two of a four-part speaker series from the Friends of the Naval Shipyard Museum on 250 years of the U.S. Marine Corps.

This week's speaker will be Shawn Callahan, Ph.D., Director, U.S. Marine Corps History Division.

This Event is free and open to the public.

Other in this series are:

Founding of the U.S. Navy
Speaker: John V. Quarstein
Award winning author, historian,
preservationist, Director Emeritus of
USS Monitor Center

Saturday, October 11, 2025, 2 – 3 pm
250 Years of U.S. Navy Medicine
Speaker: André Sobocinski
Renowned Historian- U.S. Navy
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

Saturday, November 1, 2025, 2 – 3 pm
250 Years of Service to the U.S. Navy
Speaker: Marcus Robbins
Norfolk Naval Shipyard
Command Historian & Archivist