~Assistant Professor Wayne Hsieh's
lecture on the U.S. Civil War was filmed
by C-Span recently. It has been
scheduled to be broadcast on C-Span3
in April, 2012 on different
time slots, with the first installments
scheduled for 8:30pm and 11:30pm,
Friday, April 13. Congrats to Assistant
Professor Hsieh!
~Congratulations to the following class
of 2012 midshipmen who will
receive Honors degree in History at the
Commencement:
ˇ MIDN
1/C Jameson Clem (“Jamie”)
— “Provisional Irish Republican Army
Propaganda of the 1970s: Themes and
Process of Messaging”. Adviser:
Professor Dan Masterson.
ˇ MIDN
1/C Brent Cochran —
“Mastering the Moment” (on the
development of Arthur Balfour as a
professional politician). Adviser:
Professor Nancy Ellenberger.
ˇ MIDN
1/C William Crocker (“Drew”)
— “A Ghost’s History: Myth, Memory, and
Loyalty in John Singleton Mosby’s
Defense of J. E. B. Stuart”. Adviser:
Professor Mary DeCredico.
ˇ MIDN
1/C Katrina Lamsa (“Kate”)
— “The Russo-Finnish War of 1939-1940
and the Finnish Relief Fund”. Adviser:
Associate Professor Brian VanDeMark.
ˇ MIDN
1/C Kristen McKim —
“Lee-Adams: The Family Tie That Forged
America”. Adviser: Associate Professor
Laura Kamoie.
ˇ MIDN
1/C Mary Medford-Davis (“Katie”)
— “Inquisitio Heretice Pravitatis:
A Comparative Study of the Medieval
Papal Inquisitions in Languedoc and the
Lands of the Crown of Aragon”. Adviser:
Professor Richard Abels.
ˇ MIDN
1/C Peter Reilly —
“Collective Memory and National
Identity: U.S. Naval and Marine Heroes
from the Tripolitan War, 1801-1805”.
Adviser: Associate Professor Virginia
Lunsford.
ˇ MIDN
1/C Robert Swain (“Rob”)
— “The Theological Thought of Cardinal
Deacon Lotario dei Conti di Segni and
Its Impact on His Pontificate as Pope
Innocent III”. Adviser: Professor
Richard Abels.
ˇ MIDN
1/C Jeremy Wallace —
“A Looming Disaster: Harrisburg’s Lack
of Viable Defenses During the Civil
War”. Adviser: Professor Mary DeCredico.
ˇ MIDN
1/C Fleet White —
“The Containment of Persia: Roots of
American Involvement in the Overthrow of
Mohammad Mossadeq (1945-1953”. Adviser:
Captain Jeff Macris, USN.
ˇ MIDN
1/C Samuel Winsted (“Sam”)
— “Justinian’s Strategic Motivations for
the Conquest of the Vandals”. Adviser:
Professor Phyllis Culham.
~Congratulations to
Commander J. Travis Moger (CHC, USN) who
recently completed his PhD in history at
the University of California, Santa
Barbara. His dissertation is a
microhistory that looks at the
Protestant Reformation from the
perspective of a traditional Catholic
priest and tells the story of the
Reformation from the losing end. The
title is Wolfgang Königstein and the
Reformation in Frankfurt am Main,
1520-1533.
~Congratulations to the following
midshipmen from the Class of 2011 on
being recommended to receive Honors
Degree in History:
Jonathon Erwert
Megan Moyette
Clarence Lambert
Anthony Gleis
Shannon Shaw
Benjamin Olivas
Christine Tyndall
~Associate Professor Virginia
Lunsford was featured in a new
documentary "Ben Franklin's Pirate
Fleet" on the National Geographic
Channel. See
HERE for the preview.
~Professor Ernest Tucker on computer lost
in translation on NPR. To listen, click
HERE.
~17 Midshipmen in History Majors have won
2011 Summer Internships.
~Mary DeCredico lectures on "The
Confederate High Tide" on C-SPAN 14
October, 2010.
Watch video HERE.
~New book by Assistant Professor Richard
Ruth:
In Buddha's Company:
Thai Soldiers
in the Vietnam War [University of Hawaii
Press, November 2010]
~ Tom McCarthy's Auto Mania
has been named one of the "outstanding
academic titles" for 2008 by Choice
magazine. This prestigious list
reflects the best titles reviewed by
Choice in 2008 and brings with it
the extraordinary recognition of the
academic library community.
~
The Yardarm: News from the History
Department. Please take a
moment to review our Fall newsletter!
~ Recent Publications by Faculty
- Congratulations to the following
faculty on their most recent book
publications:
CDR Jeffrey
Macris, The Politics and
Security of the Gulf: Anglo-American
Hegemony and the Shaping of a Region
(London & New York: Routledge, 2010)
~
Thomas
Burgess,
Race, Revolution, and the Struggle for
Human Rights in Zanzibar: The Memoirs of
Ali Sultan Issa and Seif Sharif Hamad,
(Ohio University Press, 2009)
-
Maochun
Miles Yu. ed. New Interpretations in
Naval History: Selected papers from the
Fifteenth Naval History Symposium
(Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press,
August 2009)
-
Wayne Wei-sang Hsieh. West Pointers
and the Civil War: The Old Army in War
and Peace (Chapel Hill, NC: The
University of North Carolina Press,
2009)
-
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. (Norman, OK:
University of Oklahoma Press, 2008).
