American Naval History; The American Civil War
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Email: 
symonds@usna.edu
macsymonds@aol.com
Phone: 410-293-6270

Education:

Ph.D. – University of Florida
 M.A - University of Florida
B.A. – University of California, Los Angeles

Awards and Honors

• The Abraham Lincoln Book Award, 2010

• The Lincoln Prize, 2009 (with James M. McPherson)

• The Barondess Prize, 2009

• The Daniel and Marilyn Laney Prize, 2009

• The Nevins-Freeman Prize, 2009

• The Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize, 2006

• Anne Arundel County Award for Literary Arts, 2006

• John Lyman Book Award, 1995, 1999, 2009

• USNA Research Excellence Award, 1998

• USNA Teaching Excellence Award, 1988

• Superior Civilian Service Award, 1994, 1998, 2005

• Meritorious Civilian Service Award, 1989

• History Book Club Author, 1983, 1986, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2010

• Military Book Club Author, 1983, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2005

• Book-of-the-Month Club Author, 1983, 1986, 1992, 2001, 2005

Books

• The Battle of Midway (Oxford University Press, 2011)

• The Civil War at Sea (ABC Clio, 2010)

• Lincoln and His Admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy, and the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2008)

• Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles that Shaped American History (Oxford University Press, 2005)

• The American Heritage History of the Battle of Gettysburg (Harper/Collins, 1995)

• Confederate Admiral: The Life and Wars of Franklin Buchanan (Naval Institute Press, 1999)

• The Naval Institute Historical Atlas of the U.S. Navy (Naval Institute Press, 1995)

• Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne and the Civil War (University of Kansas Press, 1997)

• Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography (W. W. Norton, 1992)

• Gettysburg: A Battlefield Atlas (Nautical & Aviation Publishing, 1992)

• A Battlefield Atlas of the American Revolution (Nautical & Aviation Press, 1986)

• A Battlefield Atlas of the Civil War (Nautical & Aviation Press, 1983)

• Navalists and Antinavalists: The Naval Policy Debate in the United States (University of Delaware Press, 1980)

Selected Edited Books

• The New York Times, The Complete Civil War, with Harold Holzer (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2010)

• The Lincoln Assassination: Crime & Punishment, Myth & Memory (Fordham, 2010)

• Union Combined Operations in the Civil War (Fordham, 2010)

• A Year on a Monitor and the Destruction of Fort Sumter (South Carolina, 1987)

• Recollections of a Naval Officer (Naval Institute, 1985)

• Charleston Blockade (U.S. Naval War College Press, 1976)

     Plus over 100 book chapters and articles

Current Research: 

Franklin D. Roosevelt as Commander in Chief

Professional Associations:

• Secretary of the Navy’s Advisory Board on Naval History

• Board of Trustees and Executive Committee, The Lincoln Forum

• Board of Trustees, The Admiral Nimitz Foundation (Chair of the Nimitz Education and Research Committee)

• Lincoln Prize Committee (chair)

• American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Southern Historical Association, Society of Military History