Educational Resources

Explore Resources or Learning and Preserving U.S. Coast Guard History

Our Programs

If you don’t see what you need here, please contact us. We routinely get history-related requests that don’t fit directly into the predefined categories, so I’d like an option for them to reach out here.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 46156 "Coast Guard surf boat in action near the wrecked USS Milwaukee, 13 Jan. 1917" U.S. Coast Guard surf boat in action, during the removal of crewmen from USS Milwaukee (Cruiser # 21) after she was wrecked at Samoa Beach, near Eureka, California, 13 January 1917. Note the large number of men standing on the grounded cruiser's decks. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons


Donations to the USCG Historian’s Office Collections


Believe it or not, the USCG can’t buy artifacts that should be in their collection. We are constantly on the lookout for artifacts and memorabilia that is worthy of inclusion in the collection, buy it, and then donate it to the Coast Guard.

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Petty Officer 1st Class Shawn Eggert, U.S. Coast Guard, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons


Annual Awards Program


To accord recognition to individuals, units, and public and private organizations for both scholarly achievement and for raising public awareness of the challenges, accomplishments, and character of the men and women who have contributed to the proud heritage of the Coast Guard each year, we administer an awards program.

Awards Program
USCG Citrus-MV Pacific Star Aflame after collision-1JAN85 PD-USGov-DHS-CG


Evening Reports History Presentations

Once a month, we offer a Coast Guard related history presentation online via Zoom.

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Coast Guard patrol boats CG-177, CG-151, CG-170, CG-278 at Boston Harbor in front of Eastern Steamship Lines SS Governor Dingley, taken c. 1941


Oral History Program


Future historians will want primary sources to understand what a day in the life of the Coast Guard was like. Your experinces can inform future generations of what your service meant.

Read The Histories

Speaker’s Bureau

Are you holding an event and would like to feature some talking about Coast Guard history? We can arrange a speaker well versed in Coast Guard history at no cost.

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