John Lyman Book Awards
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The John Lyman Book Awards are given annually by the North American Society for Oceanic History
for books published in six categories in the broad field of Maritime history
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North American Society for Oceanic History
The North American Society for Oceanic History is the national organization in the United States of America for professional historians, underwater archeologists, archivists, librarians, museum specialists and others working in the broad field of maritime history...
for books published in six categories in the broad field of Maritime history
Maritime history
Maritime history is the study of human activity at sea. It covers a broad thematic element of history that often uses a global approach, although national and regional histories remain predominant...
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- Canadian naval and maritime history
- U.S. naval history
- U.S. maritime history
- History of maritime science and technology
- Maritime biography and autobiography.
- Maritime reference works and published primary sources,
| Year | Author | Book |
| 2008 | Robert Malcomson | Capital in Flames: The American Attack on York, 1813. (Montreal: Robin Brass Studio; Annapolis, Mary.: Naval Institute Press) |
| 2008 Honorable Mention | Freeman M. Tovell | At the Far Reaches of Empire: The Life of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra. (Vancouver: University British Columbia Press) |
| 2007 | Barry Gough | Fortune's River: The Collision of Empires in Northwest America (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing Co., Ltd.) |
| 2006 | Jennifer M. Hubbard | A Science on the Scales: The Rise of Canadian Atlantic Fisheries Biology, 1898-1939 (University of Toronto Press) |
| 2006 Honorable Mention | Barry Gough | Through Water, Ice and Fire: Schooner Nancy of the War of 1812 (Dundurn Press) |
| 2005 | Stuart E. Jenness | The Making of an Explorer: George Hubert Wilkins and the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-1916. (McGill-Queen's University) |
| 2005 Honorable Mention | Jonathan R. Dull | The French Navy and the Seven Years' War (University of Nebraska Press) |
| 2004 | Peter E. Pope | Fish into Wine: The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century (University of North Carolina Press) |
| 2004 Honorable Mention | Fraser M. McKee | "Sink all the shipping there": The Wartime Loss of Canada's Merchant Ships and Fishing Schooners (Vanwell Publishing) |
| 2003 | Julian Gywn | Frigates and Foremasts: The North American Squadron in Nova Scotia Waters, 1745-1815 (University of British Columbia) |
| 2002 | John Griffith Armstrong | The Halifax Explosion and the Royal Canadian Navy (University of British Columbia Press) |
| 2001 | Robert Malcomson | Warships of the Great Lakes, 1754-1834 (UK: Chatham Publishing/US: Naval Institute Press) |
| 2000 | Arnold Hague | Allied Convoy System, 1939-1945 (Vanwell Publishing Ltd. In Canada; Chatham Publishing in Great Britain; Naval Institute Press in the U.S.) |
| 1999 | James P. Delgado James P. Delgado James P. Delgado is a maritime archaeologist, explorer and author.-Life:As a maritime archaeologist who has worked all around the globe, he has spent decades underwater exploration and has uncovered many new archaeological sites across the globe... |
Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage (Checkmark Books) |
| 1998 | Robert Malcomson | Lords of the Lake: The Naval War on Lake Ontario, 1812-1814 (Robin Brass Studio) |
| 1997 | Peter E. Pope | The Many Landfalls of John Cabot (University of Toronto Press) |
| 1996 | Edited by Michael L. Hadley, Rob Huebert, Fred W. Crickard | A Nation's Navy: In Quest of Canadian Naval Identity (McGill Queen's University Press) |
| 1995 | James Pritchard | Anatomy of a Naval Disaster: The 1746 French Expedition to North America. (McGill-Queen's University Press) |
| Year | Author | Book |
| 2008 | Craig L. Symonds | Lincoln and His Admirals. (New York: Oxford University Press) |
| 2008 Honorable Mention | Howard J. Fuller | Clad in Iron: The American Civil War and the Challenge of British Naval Power. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger Security International) |
| 2008 Honorable Mention | John T. Kuehn | Agents of Innovation: The General Board and the Design of the Fleet that Defeated the Japanese. (Annapolis, Mary.: Naval Institute Press) |
| 2007 | Lisle A. Rose | Power at Sea: vol. 1. The Age of Navalism, 1890-1918; vol. 2. The Breaking Storm, 1919-1945; vol. 3. A Violent Peace, 1946-2006 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press) |
| 2006 | William N. Still, Jr. William N. Still, Jr. William Norwood Still, Jr. , is an American maritime historian, who was the first director of the program in maritime history at East Carolina University and a noted author of works on Civil War history and U.S... |
Crisis at Sea: The U.S. Navy in European Waters in World War I (University Press of Florida) |
| 2006 Honorable Mention | James D. Hornfischer James D. Hornfischer James D. Hornfischer is an American literary agent and naval historian.A former editor at the publishing company HarperCollins in New York, Hornfischer is president of Hornfischer Literary Management, a literary agency in Austin, Texas.-Professional Background:Hornfischer, a non-practicing member... |
Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors (Bantam Books) |
| 2005 | Jonathan Parshall Anthony Tully | Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway. (Potomac) |
| 2005 Honorable Mention | Craig L. Symonds | Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles that Shaped American History (Oxford University Press) |
| 2004 | Michael J. Bennett | Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War (University of North Carolina Press) |
| 2004 Honorable Mention | R. Blake Dunnavent | Brown Water Warfare: The U.S. Navy in Riverine Warfare and the Emergence of Tactical Doctrine, 1775-1970. (University Press of Florida) |
| 2004 Honorable Mention | John Darrell Sherwood John Darrell Sherwood John Darrell Sherwood is an American author who has published five books and numerous articles. He specializes in military history, but has also published articles on travel, and skiing.-Officers in Flight Suits:... |
Afterburner: Naval Aviation and the Vietnam War (New York University Press) |
| 2003 | Jack Friend | West Wind, Flood Tide: The Battle of Mobile Bay (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2002 | Mitchell B. Lerner | The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy (University Press of Kansas) |
| 2001 | Kathleen Broome Williams | Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2000 | William Henry Flayhart III | The American Line, 1871-1902 (W.W. Norton & Co.) |
| 1998 | Jack Sweetman, ed. | Great American Naval Battles (Naval Institute Press) |
| 1997 | David Curtis Skaggs Gerard T. Altoff | A Signal Victory: The Lake Erie Campaign, 1812-1813 (Naval Institute Press) |
| 1996 | Malcolm Muir | Black Shoes and Blue Water: Surface Warfare in the United States Navy. 1945 1975 (Naval Historical Center) |
| 1995 | Jeffery G. Barlow | Revolt of the Admirals: The Fight for Naval Aviation, 1945-1950 (Naval Historical Center) |
| 1995 | Charles Dana Gibson E. Kay Gibson | Assault and Logistics: Union Army Coastal and River Operations, 1861 1866 and Dictionary of Transports and Combatant Vessels Steam and Sail Employed by the Union Army, 1861 1868 (Ensign Press) |
| Year | Author | Book |
| 2008 | William E. Lass | Navigating the Missouri: Steamboating on Nature's Highway, 1819-1935. (Norman, Okla.: Arthur H. Clark Co.) |
| 2008 | Frances F. Dunwell | The Hudson: America's River. (New York: Columbia University Press) |
| 2007 | Eric Jay Dolin | Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America (New York: W.W. Norton and Company) |
| 2007 | Donald G. Shomette | Shipwrecks, Sea Raiders, and Maritime Disasters along the Delmarva Coast, 1632-2004 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press) |
| 2006 | Joshua M. Smith | Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783-1820 (University Press of Florida) |
| 2006 Honorable Mention | Eric Robert Taylor | If We Must Die: Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade (Louisiana State University Press) |
| 2005 | Peter L. Bernstein Peter L. Bernstein Peter Lewyn Bernstein was an American financial historian, economist and educator whose development and refinement of the efficient-market hypothesis made him one of the country's best known authorities in popularizing and presenting investment economics to the general public.-Education and... |
Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation, (W. W. Norton & Co.) |
| 2005 Honorable Mention | Edwin L. Dunbaugh | New England Steamship Company: Long Island Sound Night Boats in the Twentieth Century (University Press of Florida) |
| 2004 | Paul A. Gilje | Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution. (University of Pennsylvania Press) |
| 2004 Honorable Mention: | James A. McMillan | The Final Victims: Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783-1810 (University of South Carolina Press) |
| 2003 | ALex R. Larzelere | The Coast Guard in World War I: An Untold Story (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2002 | Wade G. Dudley | Splintering the Wooden Wall (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2001 | Nicholas Dean | Snow Squall: The Last American Clipper Ship (Tilbury House, Publishers and Maine Maritime Museum) |
| 2000 | Lisa Norling Lisa Norling -Life:She graduated from Cornell University, magna cum laude, and from Rutgers University with a Ph.D.She teaches at the University of Minnesota. She also teaches at the Frank C... |
Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 (University of North Carolina Press) |
| 2000 Honorable mention | Ralph Linwood Snow Douglas K. Lee | A Shipyard in Maine: Percy & Small and the Great Schooners (Tilbury House, Publishers and Maine Maritime Museum) |
| 1999 | Charles R. Schultz | Forty-Niners 'Round the Horn (University of South Carolina Press) |
| 1999 Honorable mention: | Alexander Boyd Hawes | Off Soundings: Aspects of the Maritime History of Rhode Island (Posterity Press) |
| 1998 | Benjamin W. Labaree, William M. Fowler, Jr., John Hattendorf John Hattendorf John Brewster Hattendorf is an American naval historian. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of more than forty books on British and American maritime history and naval warfare. In 2005, the U.S... , Jeffrey J. Safford, Edward W. Sloan, and Andrew German |
America and the Sea: A Maritime History (Mystic Seaport Museum) |
| 1997 | W. Jeffrey Bolster | Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail (Harvard University Press) |
| 1996 | Wayne M. O'Leary | Maine Sea Fisheries: The Rise and Fall of a Native Industry, 1830 1890 (Northeastern University Press) |
| 1995 | William C. Fleetwood, Jr. | Tidecraft: The Boats of South Carolina, Georgia, and Northeastern Florida, 1550 1950 (WBG Marine Press) |
| Year | Author | Book |
| 2008 | David Hackett Fischer David Hackett Fischer David Hackett Fischer is University Professor and Earl Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University. Fischer's major works have tackled everything from large macroeconomic and cultural trends to narrative histories of significant events to explorations of... |
Champlain's Dream: The Visionary Adventurer Who Made a New World in Canada. (New York: Simon and Schuster) |
| 2007 | Stephen Fox Stephen Fox Sir Stephen Fox was an English politician.-Life:Stephen Fox was the son of William Fox, of Farley, in Wiltshire, a yeoman farmer... |
Wolf of the Deep: Raphael Semmes and the Notorious Confederate Raider CSS Alabama (New York: Alfred Knopf) |
| 2006 | Mary Malloy | Devil on the Deep Blue Sea: The Notorious Career of Captain Samuel Hill of Boston (Bullbrier Press) |
| 2006 | David Curtis Skaggs | Oliver Hazard Perry: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2006 Honorable Mention | John H. Schroeder | Commodore John Rodgers: Paragon of the Early American Navy (University Press of Florida) |
| 2005 | Clark G. Reynolds Clark G. Reynolds Dr. Clark Gilbert Reynolds, B.A., M.A. , Ph.D. was an historian of naval warfare, with a particular interest in the development of U.S. naval aviation. In addition, he made contributions to the fields of world history, strategic history, and the history of maritime civilizations.-Biography:The... |
On the Warpath in the Pacific: Admiral Jocko Clark and the Fast Carriers, (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2004 | Kathleen Broome Williams | Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2003 | Thomas Wildenberg | All the Factors of Victory: Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves and the Origins of Carrier Airpower (Brassey's) |
| 2001 | John H. Schroeder | Matthew Calbraith Perry: Antebellum Sailor and Diplomat (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2000 | Spencer Tucker | Andrew Foote: Civil War Admiral on Western Waters (Naval Institute Press) |
| 1999 | Craig Symonds Craig Symonds Craig Lee Symonds is a retired professor and chairman of the history department at the United States Naval Academy... |
Confederate Admiral: The Life and Wars of Franklin Buchanan (Naval Institute Press) |
| 1998 | W. Gillies Ross | This Distant and Unsurveyed Country: A Woman's Winter at Baffin Island, 1857-58 (McGill-Queen's University Press) |
| 1997 | Catherine Petroski Catherine Petroski Catherine Petroski , born Catherine Groom in St. Louis, Missouri, is an American author of fiction and non-fiction, reviews, and poetry.-Life:She holds degrees from MacMurray College and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.... |
A Bride's Passage: Susan Hathorn's Year Under Sail (Northeastern University Press) |
| 1996 | Robert Schneller | A Quest for Glory: A Biography of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren (Naval Institute Press) |
| Year | Author | Book |
| 2008 | Gary Kroll Gary Kroll Gary Melvin Kroll is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for four seasons. The , righthander played for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1964, the New York Mets from 1964 to 1965, the Houston Astros in 1966, and the Cleveland Indians in 1969... |
America's Ocean Wilderness: A Cultural History of Twentieth-Century Exploration. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas) |
| 2008 Honorable Mention | Russell A. Potter | Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818-1875. (Seattle: University of Washington Press) |
| 2007 | Larrie D. Ferreiro | Ships and Science: The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800 (Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press) |
| 2006 | Anthony Newpower | Iron Men and Tin Fish: Race to Build a Better Torpedo during World War II (Praeger) |
| 2004 Honorable Mention | Marc Levinson | The Box: How the Shipping container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (Princeton University Press) |
| 2005 | Helen M Rozwadowski | Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea, (Belknap/Harvard University Press) |
| 2002 | Steven J. Dick Steven J. Dick Steven J. Dick is an American astronomer, author and historian of science most noted for his work in the field of astrobiology. Dick served as the Chief Historian for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 2003 to 2009. He is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics and... |
Sky and Ocean Joined: The U.S. Naval Observatory, 1830-2000 (Cambridge University Press) |
| 2002 | William H. Roberts | Civil War Ironclads (Johns Hopkins University Press) |
| 2001 | Gary E. Weir | An Ocean in Common: American Naval Officers, Scientists, and the Ocean Environment (Texas A&M University Press) |
| 1997 | Thomas R. Heinrich | Ships for the Seven Seas: Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism (Johns Hopkins University Press) |
| 1995 | Harold D. Langley Harold D. Langley Harold David Langley is an American diplomatic and naval historian who served as associate curator of naval history at the Smithsonian Institution from 1969... |
History of Medicine in the Early U.S. Navy (Johns Hopkins University Press) |
| Year | Author | Book |
| 2008 | George J. Billy, Christine M. Billy | Merchant Mariners at War: An Oral History of World War II. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida) |
| 2008 Honorable Mention | Robert Eric Barde | Immigration at the Golden Gate: Passenger Ships, Exclusion, and Angel Island. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger) |
| 2007 | John B. Hattendorf, Editor in Chief | The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History (New York: Oxford University Press) |
| 2007 Honorable Mention | Deidre Simmons | Keepers of the Record: The History of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press) |
| 2006 | Ralph Sessions | The Shipcarvers' Art: Figureheads and Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton University Press) |
| 2006 Honorable Mention | C. Danial Elliott, Everett C. Wilkie, Jr., Richard Ring | Maritime History: A Hand-list of the Collection in the John Carter Brown Library (1474 to ca.1860) (The John Carter Brown Library) |
| 2004 | W.H. Bunting | Sea Struck (Martha's Vineyard Historical Society) |
| 2003 | C. Herbert Gilliland | Voyage to a Thousand Cares: Master's Mate Lawrence with the African Squadron, 1844-1846 (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2002 | Michael J. Crawford, Editor | The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History, vol. 3 (Naval Historical Center) |
| 2000 | David Freeman | Canadian Warship Names (Vanwell Publishing Ltd.) |
| 1999 | Robert J. Cressman | The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II (Naval Institute Press) |
| 1998 | Harold B. Gill, Jr. Joanne Young | Searching for the Franklin Expedition: The Arctic Journal of Robert Randolph Carter, (Naval Institute Press) |
| 1997 | Briton C. Busch Briton C. Busch Briton Cooper Busch, , was a specialist in nineteenth century British diplomatic history, military history, and American maritime history at Colgate University.... Barry M. Gough Barry M. Gough Barry Morton Gough is a Canadian maritime and naval historian. In more than a dozen books, and several hundred articles and reviews, he has worked to recast and reaffirm the imperial foundations of Canadian history... ,Editor |
Fur Traders from New England: The Boston Men in the North Pacific, 1787-1800 (The Arthur H. Clark Company) |
| 1996 | Michael Crawford Michael Crawford Michael Crawford OBE is an English actor and singer. He has garnered great critical acclaim and won numerous awards during his career, which covers radio, television, film, and stagework on both London's West End and on Broadway in New York City... , Editor |
The Naval Documents of the American Revolution, vol. 10 (Naval Historical Center) |
| 1995 | Craig L. Symonds | The Naval Institute's Historical Atlas of U.S. Navy (Naval Institute Press) |
External links
- "John Lyman Book Awards" NASOH website