Designed to guide sailors to safe shores and warn them about storms, steep rocks, obstructions, and other hazards, ...

Waves crash against the St. George Reef Lighthouse in October 2021. The inactive lighthouse, about six miles off the coast of Crescent City, Calif., was first illuminated on Oct. 20, 1892. John ...

For over two thousand years, lighthouses have been a constant and crucial element in maritime safety. Lighthouses function as important navigational aids that guide ships, warn of water hazards, and ...

Curated over the past few months by the Special Collections library public services coordinator Ruba Sadi, the exhibit covers ...

John Gibbons shivered in the back of the little boat hauling him to his first assignment as a member of the U.S. Coast Guard. It was 1953. Gibbons was a baby-faced 18-year-old kid from Ohio who had ...