LIEUTENANT COMMANDER (RETIRED) SCOTT GRANGER graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1988 with a degree in history. A Surface Warfare Officer, he served aboard cruisers and destroyers before obtaining a Master’s degree in U.S. history from the American University in Washington, D.C., in 1996. He has taught history at Annapolis, where he was the recipient of the 2004 Class of 1951 Military Faculty Teaching Excellence Award and William P. Clements Award for Excellence in Education, and at West Point, where he received a Department of History Excellence in Teaching Award in 2008. In addition to teaching in the International History Division, he has served as the archivist for the West Point Center for Oral History since his retirement from active duty in 2011.