~Congratulations to Assistant Professor Aaron O'Connell for the publication of his book book, Underdogs: The Making of the Modern Marine Corps (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012),  click the following link for a publisher's promotion video: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674058279

~Adjunct Assistant Professor Mechelle Kerns Galway presented a lecture in honor of the National Archeological Day, "Archeology at USNA: The Fort Madison Project," Friday, Oct. 19, 1900, Sampson G14. For a poster of her lecture, see here.

~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:

·

 MIDN 1/C Jameson Clem — “Provisional Irish Republican Army Propaganda of the 1970s:  

                  Themes and Process of Messaging”. Adviser: Professor Dan Masterson.

·MIDN 1/C Brent Cochran — “Mastering the Moment” (on the development of Arthur Balfour

                    as a professional politician). Adviser: Professor Nancy Ellenberger.

·MIDN 1/C William Crocker — “A Ghost’s History: Myth, Memory, and Loyalty in John

                    Singleton Mosby’s Defense of J. E. B. Stuart”. Adviser: Professor Mary DeCredico.

·MIDN 1/C Katrina Lamsa — “The Russo-Finnish War of 1939-1940 and the Finnish Relief

                    Fund”. Adviser: Associate Professor Brian VanDeMark.

·MIDN 1/C Kristen McKim — “Lee-Adams: The Family Tie That Forged America”. Adviser:  

                    Associate Professor Laura Kamoie.
·MIDN 1/C Mary Medford-Davis — “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.

·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.

·MIDN 1/C Robert Swain — “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.

·MIDN 1/C Jeremy Wallace — “A Looming Disaster: Harrisburg’s Lack of Viable Defenses

                    During the Civil War”. Adviser: Professor Mary DeCredico.

·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.

·MIDN 1/C Samuel Winsted — “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.

~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).