C. Herbert Gilliland is a professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and a retired captain in the naval reserve. His most recent book, Voyage to a Thousand Cares: Master”s Mate Lawrence with the African Squadron, 1844–1846, received the John Lyman Award from the North American Society for Oceanic History. He also coauthored Admiral Dan Gallery: The Life and Wit of a Navy Original.
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C. Herbert Gilliland: USS Constellation on the Dismal Coast
Today the twenty-gun sloop USS Constellation is a floating museum in Baltimore Harbor; in 1859 it was an emblem of the global power of the American sailing navy. When young William E. Leonard boarded …
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Amy Mitchell-Cook: A Sea of Misadventures
A Sea of Misadventures examines more than one hundred documented shipwreck narratives from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century as a means to understanding gender, status, and religion in the hi …
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Lynn B. Harris: Patroons and Periaguas
Patroons and Periaguas explores the intricately interwoven and colorful creole maritime legacy of Native Americans, Africans, enslaved and free African Americans, and Europeans who settled along the …
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Colin Carlin: Captain James Carlin
A portrait of one of the most successful blockade runners who brought vital supplies to Confederate forces Captain James Carlin is a biography of a shadowy nineteenth-century British Confederate, Jam …
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William N. Still & Richard A. Stephenson: Shipbuilding in North Carolina, 1688-1918
In their comprehensive and authoritative history of boat and shipbuilding in North Carolina through the early twentieth century, William Still and Richard Stephenson document for the first time a byg …
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William N Still: American Sea Power in the Old World
This classic study examines the deployment of U.S. naval vessels in European and Near Eastern waters from the end of the Civil War until the United States declared war in April 1917. Initially these …
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William N Still: Victory Without Peace
Victory Without Peace concentrates on the U.S. Navy in European and Near Eastern waters during the post-World War I era. As participants in the Versailles peace negotiations, the Navy was charged wit …
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