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Naval and Maritime

 

Abbass, D. K., “The Forgotten Ships of the Battle of Rhode Island: Some Unpublished Documents,” Rhode Island History, 67 (Winter–Spring 2009), 27–39.

Jones, Jerry W., “The Naval Battle of Paris,” Naval War College Review, 62 (Spring 2009), 77–89.

Leiner, Frederick C., “The Squadron Commander’s Share: Decantur v. Chew and the Prize Money for the Chesapeake’s First War of 1812 Cruise,” Journal of Military History, 73 (Jan. 2009), 69–82.

Shumaker, Mark, “Pioneer Challenger: The Unusual Life of a Great Lakes Ore Carrier,” Inland Seas, 64 (Winter 2008), 290–99.

Stein, Gary C., “‘The Old Man Is Good and Drunk Now’: Captain Michael A. Healy and the Cruise of 1889,” Alaska History, 24 (Spring 2009), 17–43.

Stewart-Abernathy, Leslie C. “Skip,” “Ghost Boats at West Memphis,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Winter 2008), 389–413.

 

Kirschbaum, Joseph W., “The 1916 Naval Expansion Act: Planning for a Navy Second to None” (George Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3311364.

Phelan, Claire Pauline, “In the Vise of Empire: British Impressment of the American Sailor” (Texas Christian University, 2008). Order No. DA3315546.

 

Holwitt, Joel Ira, “Execute against Japan”: The U.S. Decision to Conduct Unrestricted Submarine Warfare. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2009. xvi, 245 pp. $37.50, isbn 978-1-60344-083-7.)

Norton, Louis Arthur, Captains Contentious: The Dysfunctional Sons of the Brine. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009. x, 185 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-57003-807-5.)

Pengelly, Colin, Sir Samuel Hood and the Battle of the Chesapeake. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. xiv, 251 pp. $69.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3313-6.)

 

Kienast, Evabeth Miller, and John Phillip Felt, eds., Lewis Coolidge and the Voyage of the Amethyst, 1806–1811. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009. xxvi, 125 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-57003-816-7.)

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