~ The Yardarm: News from the History Department.  Please take a moment to review our Spring newsletter!

~ Tom McCarthy's Auto Mania has been named one of the "outstanding academic titles" for 2008 by Choice magazine.  This prestigious list reflect the best titles reviewed by Choice in 2008 and brings with it the extraordinary recognition of the academic library community.

~ Please review the Fall edition of our Departmental Newsletter.  Click: The Yardarm.

~ 29th Annual Bancroft Lecture - The Naval Academy History Department invites the public to the 29th Annual Bancroft Lecture.  Dr. William M. Kelso will speak on "Jamestown: The Buried Truth" on Tuesday, October 14, at 7:15 p.m. in Mahan Auditorium.  He has been one of America's foremost historical archaeologist concentrating on early American history and notably excavated the remains of the 1607 James Fort thought to have been completely destroyed by hundreds of years of erosion.  The fort became the centerpiece for the 400th Anniversary celebration of the founding of Jamestown in Virginia.

The Bancroft Lecture series was instituted by the Academy's history Department to honor the founder of the Academy, the great-nineteenth-century American historian and eminent public servant George Bancroft.  Held in either the first or second week of October, the Bancroft Lecture celebrates the Anniversary of Bancroft's birth (Oct. 3, 1800) and the anniversary of his enduring contribution to his country - the founding of the United States Naval Academy on Oct. 10, 1845.  The inaugural Bancroft Lecture was delivered in 1980.  Since then, the Bancroft Lecture series has brought to the Academy a parade of eminent historians to speak to a mixed audience of midshipmen, faculty, and the Annapolis community about their research and the relevance of the historian's craft to today's world.

Visitors may enter through Gates 1 (King George Street) and 3 (Maryland Ave. open until 9 p.m.) and will be required to show a picture ID.  Vehicles without Department of Defense decals are not permitted on the Naval Academy grounds.  All bags are subject to search.

~ Fall Asia Forum: Announced Lectures:

"How China Manages Taiwan and Why It Matters to the US Navy" By Andrew Scobell, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University.

"How to Disarm Kim Jong-il: China and the Koreas" By Gordon Chang, NYT-Best-Selling author on China and Korea. 

"Islamic Revival in Malaysia" By Ermin Sinanovic, Department of Political Science, USNA.

"Outsourcing, America, Terrorism: India as a Rising Global Power" by Hayden Bellenoit, Department of History, USNA.

"Is China a Revisionist Power?" by Yong Deng, Department of Political Science, USNA

"As China Goes, So Goes the Planet: China's Environmental Challenges In International Context" by Judith Shapiro, American University

~ Recent Publications by Faculty - Congratulations to the following faculty on their most recent book publications:

-  Anne T. Quartararo.  Deaf Identity and Social Images in Nineteenth-Century France.  (Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 2008).

-   Mitchell A. Yockelson, Borrowed Soldiers, Americans Under British Command, 1918. (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008).

-    Hayden Bellenoit, Missionary Education and Empire in Late Colonial India, 1860-1920. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007).

-    Laura Kamoie, Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Taloe Family and the Virginia Gentry, 1700-1860. (Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 2007).

-Tom McCarthy, Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007).