Dr. Robert K. Sutton retired as Chief Historian of the National Park Service in 2016, culminating a 33-year career in the Park Service. As Chief Historian and as Superintendent at Manassas Battlefield, Sutton led the emphasis on expanding the interpretation of the Civil War for the Sesquicentennial. As part of that effort, he encouraged Civil War battlefields to expand their interpretive programs to focus more attention to the social, economic, and political issues during the Civil War Era. In addition to his work for the Park Service, Dr. Sutton has taught for over 20 years at various universities as a full-time and adjunct professor. He continues to teach in the Johns Hopkins Osher Senior Adult program on the Civil War, the American West, the American Constitutional Convention and the history of the First Amendment. His classes at Hopkins aways draw well over 100 students.

Shortly after retirement, Dr. Sutton started giving lectures on Viking Ocean cruises. He has lectured on the Vikings, the Romans, the histories of various countries in Latin America, Australia and New Zealand, and more specialized topics, such as the Renaissance, Norwegian Resistance to World War II, Viking Religion, Baltic Pirates, the Reformation, Sugar and Slavery, and many other topics. Dr. Sutton is also an award- winning author, having recently published Stark Mad Abolitionists: Lawrence, Kansas and the Battle Over Slavery in the Civil War Era (2017) and Nazis on the Potomac: The Top-Secret Intelligence Operation that Helped Win World War II (2022).

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Lectures:

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History of the Bayeux Tapestry, lectures and tours of art work on board Viking ships
History of the Vikings, tracing the history of these people from earliest history to 1066
History of Argentina, from indigenous history to present
History of Chile, from indigenous history to present
History of the Incas, traces the history from about 1300 through Spanish Conquest
History of Navigation, from earlier Aboriginal and Polynesians through modern technology,
History of the Netherlands from early history through present
History of Australia from Aborigine history to present day
History of New Zealand from Maori to today
Dictatorships v. Democracy in Latin America
Indigenous History of the Pacific Northwest--focusing on Alaska
History of the non-native development of the Pacific Northwest
Glaciers, Rivers of Ice
History of the Renaissance
History of the Hanseatic League--the merchant collective or the middle ages in the Baltic
History of Venice

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Seminars:

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Gallipoli, the battle in World War I the defined New Zealand and Australia
Gold Rushes (3 three different areas and different cruises) Australia, New Zealand, and Alaska/Yukon
Sugar and Slavery, how sugar redefined the nature of slaver in the Western World
History of the Chronometer
Norwegian Resistance to World War II
the Reformation
the Kelp Highway, how the indigenous people used this route to arrive in the Americas
U-Boat 505
Viking Religion
Baltic Pirates
Agincourt, British medieval war

I have been the Viking Resident historian on numrous voyages since 2017. I have lectured on South American history, Australia/New Zealand history, Baltic history, Mediterranen history, Alaska history, and a variety of other topics, such as pirates, exploration, and warfare.