The Journal
From the Quarterdeck March 2025
As Dr. David Kohnen of the Naval War College likes to profess: “Naval Historians of the World Unite!” A very apt sentiment as we forge into the second quarter of the 21st century in a year that will witness the 250th Birthday of the United … CONTINUE READING ❯
View From the Quarterdeck: December 2022
The International Journal of Naval History is now in its third decade of publication. Dr. Gary Weir, the Founding Editor Emeritus, recognized the potential for digital scholarship in the historical profession ahead of many contemporaries. The IJNH remains as he originally conceived it: a digital … CONTINUE READING ❯
View from the Quarterdeck: December 2021
With the coming of 2022, the International Journal of Naval History begins its third decade of publication. Dr. Gary Weir, the Founding Editor Emeritus, recognized the importance of digital scholarship in the historical profession ahead of many contemporaries. The IJNH remains as he originally conceived … CONTINUE READING ❯
New Editorial Board Members (2021)
Samantha Cavell Southeastern Louisiana University Samantha Cavell is the Assistant Professor in Military History at Southeastern Louisiana University. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in American and Global Military History, including courses on the history of the U.S. Navy and sea power. Her publications … CONTINUE READING ❯
View from the Quarterdeck: December 2020
Like the grey-bearded sailor in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” first published in 1798, the world today appears driven south by an il wind of the coronavirus into the icy waters of an ever-widening COVID-19 pandemic. Writing just after the … CONTINUE READING ❯
View From the Quarterdeck: Volume 15, Issue 1
We live in a world of change driven by technology and a worldwide COVID-19 pandemic that medical scientists have not yet been able to curb. There is much talk of quarantines of all sorts. Perhaps that is a subtle reminder of the importance of a … CONTINUE READING ❯
View from the Quarterdeck: July 2018
Most of us recall a particular teacher or professor who first piqued our interest in history. Later, as we advanced in our professional studies, if we were fortunate we acquired a mentor we admired who took particular interest in guiding and developing students as a … CONTINUE READING ❯
View from the Quarterdeck: August 2016
This issue of IJNH continues the practice of offering two permanent columns. One is designed to offer suggestions from our readers of potential titles you may wish to add to your own reading intentions. The list is eclectic, including not only interesting historical monographs, but … CONTINUE READING ❯
View From the Quarterdeck: April 2016
Historians, and those interested in history, are readers. Thucydides anticipated this fact when he wrote his famous account of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta in the 5th Century BC. He said that his purpose in writing about this great war was to tell … CONTINUE READING ❯
View from the Quarterdeck: December 2015
Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) of the U.S. Navy Admiral John Richardson attended the Tenth Regional Seapower Symposium for the Navies of the Mediterranean and Black Sea Countries in Venice, Italy, in October of 2015. Participating in a panel discussion focused on the theme of … CONTINUE READING ❯