• Robert Browning, Editorial: Speaking to the Naval Present in this Historical Forum
• Douglas Ford, British Naval Policy and the War against Japan, 1937-1945: Distorted Doctrine, Insufficient Resources, or Inadequate Intelligence?

• Michael J. Crawford. The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History [Volume III 1814-1815: Chesapeake Bay, Northern Lakes, and Pacific Ocean]. Reviewed by Howard J. Fuller.
• James H. Critchfield. Partners at the Creation: The Men Behind Postwar Germany’s Defense and Intelligence Establishments. Reviewed by Jeffrey G. Barlow.
• C. Herbert Gilliland. Voyage to a Thousand Cares, Master’s Mate Lawrence with the African Squadron, 1844-1846. Reviewed by Regina T. Akers.
• Richard E. Miller. The Messman Chronicles: African Americans in the U.S. Navy, 1932-1943. Reviewed by John Darrell Sherwood.
• Jeffrey M. Moore. Spies for Nimitz: Joint Military Intelligence in the Pacific War. Reviewed by Jeffrey G. Barlow.
• Richard A. Mobley. Flash Point North Korea, The Pueblo and EC-121 Crises. Reviewed by Regina T. Akers.

• Gary E. Weir, Editorial – Reasons for Another Double Issue and other Matters
• Mark Connelly, Battleships and British Society, 1920-1960

• Otto Giese and James E. Wise, Jr.  Shooting the War: The Memoir and Photographsof a U-Boat Officer in World War II. Reviewed by Eric C. Rust.
• Daniel Madsen. Resurrection – Salvaging the Battle Fleet at Pearl Harbor. Reviewed by William Schleihauf.
• Helen M. Rozwadowski and David K. van Keuren. The Machine in Neptune’s Garden: Historical Perspectives on Technology and the Marine Environment. Reviewed by Hal M. Friedman.
• Norman Polmar and Dana Bell. One Hundred Years of World Military Aircraft. Reviewed by Joseph-James Ahern.
• William Stueck. The Korean War in World History. and Richard Peters and Xiaobing. Voices from the Korean War: Personal Stories of American, Korean, and Chinese Soldiers. Dual Review by Leo Dougherty.
• Lowell Thomas. Raiders of the Deep. Reviewed by Barry Gough.
• Robert E. Sheridan. Iron from the Deep: The Discovery and Recovery of the USS Monitor. Reviewed by Robert J. Schneller, Jr.

• Gary E. Weir, Editorial – Reasons for a Double Issue and other Matters
• Howard J. Fuller, The Guns at Filipstad: Some Reflections on the John Ericsson Bicentennial
• Robert J. Schneller, Jr., “A State of War Is a Most Unfavorable Period for Experiments”: John Dahlgren and U.S. Naval Ordnance Innovation During the American Civil War

Papers from the Symposium on John Ericsson and the Revolution in Naval Warfare 1850-1880
Swedish National Defense College, Stockholm, 14 November 2003

• Howard J. Fuller, John Ericsson, the Monitors, and Union Naval Strategy
• Jan Glete, John Ericsson and the Transformation of Swedish Naval Doctrine
• Andrew Lambert, The Royal Navy, John Ericsson, and the Challenges of New Technology

• Martin Daunton. Trusting Leviathan. The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1799-1914. and Just Taxes. The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1914-1979. A Dual book review by C.I.Hamilton.
• A. Jay Cristol. The Liberty Incident: The 1967 Attack on the U.S. Navy Spy Ship. Reviewed by John Darrell Sherwood.
• Will Fowler. The Commandos at Dieppe: Rehearsal for D-Day. Harper Collins Publishers, 2002. Reviewed by Paul Dickson.
• Norman Friedman. Terrorism, Afghanistan, and America’s New Way of War. Reviewed by Robert J. Schneller, Jr.
• Wayne Michael Hall. Stray Voltage: War in the Information Age. Reviewed by Timothy Wolters.
• C. Douglas Kroll. Commodore Ellsworth P. Bertholf: First Commandant of the Coast Guard. Reviewed by P.J. Capelotti.
• Alex R. Larzelere. The Coast Guard in World War I: An Untold Story. Reviewed by Dennis L. Noble.
• Brian Lavery. Horatio Lord Nelson. Reviewed by Robert J. Schneller, Jr.
• John Fass Morton. Mustin: A Naval Family of the 20th Century. Reviewed by David F. Winkler.

WORKS IN PROGRESS AND HISTORICAL NOTES

• Howard J. Fuller, Historical Research in the Digital Era: Techniques, and the More Obvious Pros and Cons

• Robert Browning, Editorial
• John B. Hattendorf, The Uses of Maritime History in and for the Navy

• Lee Ballenger. The Final Crucible: U.S. Marines in Korea, Vol. 2: 1953. Reviewed by Derek W. Frisby.
• Rodney Carlisle, Powder and Propellants: Energetic materials at Indian Head, Maryland 1890-2001. Reviewed by Larrie D. Ferreiro.
• Christian Dedet, Les fleurs d’acier du Mikado. Reviewed by Larrie D. Ferreiro.
• William S. Dudley and Michael J. Crawford. The Early Republic and the Sea: Essays on the Naval and Maritime History of the Early United States. Reviewed by W.A.B Douglas.
• Geoffrey M. Footner, USS Constellation, From Frigate to Sloop of War. Reviewed by Richard Greenwood.
• William H. Roberts, Civil War Ironclads: The U.S. Navy and Industrial Mobilization. Reviewed by, Howard J. Fuller.
• Jay Y. Gonen, The Roots of Nazi Psychology: Hitler’s Utopian Barbarism. Reviewed by Lee Baker.
• Jay Y. Gonen. The Roots of Nazi Psychology: Hitler’s Utopian Barbarism. Reviewed by David R. Snyder.
• Robert J. Schneller, Jr., Farragut: America’s First Admiral. Reviewed by Christopher S. Stowe.
• Edwin Howard Simmons.The United States Marines: A History, 4th Edition. Reviewed by Hal M. Friedman.

WORKS IN PROGRESS AND HISTORICAL NOTES

• Thomas C. Hone, Interpretative Perspective – The Pacific Naval War as One Coherent Campaign, 1941-1945
• Eric Rust, Further Developments and New Opportunities

• Gary E. Weir, Editorial: Focusing on the Process of Doing History
• John B. Hattendorf, The Uses of Maritime History in and for the Navy

From the Annual Meeting of the Society for History in the Federal Government (USA), 2003

• Joseph – James Ahern, “We had the hose turned on us!” Ross Gunn and The Naval Research Laboratory’s Early Research into Nuclear Propulsion, 1939 – 1946
• Gary E. Weir, From Surveillance to Global Warming: John Steinberg and Ocean Acoustics
• Eric Hazell, The Navy’s Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation (RDT&E) Management Archives
• David van Keuren, Society for History in the Federal Government 2003 Session on Research and Development in the U.S. Navy

• David Curtis Skaggs. Thomas Macdonough: Master of Command in the Early U.S. Navy. Reviewed by Michael J. Crawford.
• Bill Carter and Merri Sue Carter. Latitude: How American Astronomers Solved the Mystery of Variation. Reviewed by Steven J. Dick.
• James H. Ellis. Mad Jack Percival: Legend of the Old Navy. Reviewed by Christine F. Hughes.
• Joseph F. Callo, Nelson in the Caribbean: The Hero Emerges, 1784-1787. Reviewed by Douglas McLean.
• Charles J. Gross. American Military Aviation: The Indispensable Arm. Reviewed by John Darrell Sherwood.

• Michael Whitby, Editorial
• Trent Hone, Building a Doctrine: U.S. Naval Tactics and Battle Plans in the Interwar Period

• Christopher M. Bell, The Royal Navy, Seapower and Strategy Between the Wars. Reviewed by Warwick M. Brown.
• H.P. Willmott, The War With Japan: The Period of Balance, May 1942 – October 1943, Part One of the Total War: New Perspectives on World War II-Series. Review by Douglas Ford.
• Jay W. Simson. Naval Strategies of the Civil War: Confederate Innovations and Federal Opportunism. Reviewed by Howard J. Fuller.
• Spencer C. Tucker. A Short History of the Civil War at Sea. Reviewed by Howard J. Fuller.

WORKS IN PROGRESS AND HISTORICAL NOTES

• Hans Christian Bjerg, When the Monitors Came to Europe: The Danish Monitor Rolf Krake, 1863.

• Dr. Robert Browning. Editorial, The First Issue
• The Program of the Fifteenth Naval History Symposium at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland USA
• Stanley J. Adamiak, A Naval Depot and Dockyard on the Western Waters: The Rise and Fall of the Memphis Naval Yard, 1844–1854
• Joseph-James Ahern, The United States Navy’s Early Atomic Energy Research, 1939–194
• John Beeler, In the Shadow of Briggs: A New Perspective on British Naval Administration and W. T. Stead’s 1884 “Truth about the Navy” Campaign
• John Berryman, British Imperial Defence Strategy and Russia: The Role of the Royal Navy in the Far East, 1878–1898
• Richard Bradford, Learning the Enemy’s Language: U.S. Navy Officer Language Students in Japan, 1920 – 1941
• Stephen Budiansky, German vs. Allied Codebreakers in the Battle of the Atlantic
• Harold Cones and John Bryant, Dangerous Crossings: The First Modern Polar Expedition, 1925
• Michael J. Crawford, The Lasting Influence of Theodore Roosevelt’s Naval War of 1812
• Hal M. Friedman, Officer Education in the Twentieth Century U.S. Navy , Panel Commentary
• Howard J. Fuller, ‘The fiery focus’: An Analysis of the Union Ironclad Repulse at Charleston, 7 April 1863
• H. Michael Gelfand, “Revolutionary Change at Evolutionary Speed”: Women and the United States Naval Academy
• Terrell Gottschall, Officer Training in the Prussian Navy: The Professionalization of the Naval Officer Corps in the 1860s
• Serhat Guvenc, Building a Republican Navy in Turkey: 1924-1939
• Manley R. Irwin, The Naval Policies of the Harding Administration: Time for a Reassessment?
• Hubert C. Johnson, Anglo-American Naval Inventors, 1890–1919: Last of a Breed
• Dr. Lisa Y. King, “They called us bluejackets”: The Transformation of Self-emancipated Slaves from Contrabands of War to Fighting Sailors in the South Atlantic Blocking Squadron during the Civil War
• Robert M. Oxley, The Civil War Gulf Blockade: The Unpublished Journal of a U.S. Navy Warrant Officer Aboard the USS Vincennes, 1861–1864
• C. L. W. Page, The Great Landing 1917
• Jon Parshall, Creation of a Web–Enabled Naval Operations Database
• Douglas Peifer, Forerunners to the West German Bundesmarine: The Klose Fast Patrol Group, the Naval Historical Team Bremerhaven, and the U.S. Navy’s Labor Service Unit (B)
• Denise E. Pilato, Martha Coston: A Woman, a War, and a Signal to the World
• Angus Ross, Losing the Initiative in Mercantile Warfare: Great Britain’s Surprising Failure to Anticipate Maritime Challenges to Her Global Trading Network in the First World War
• Eric C. Rust, The Case of Oskar Kusch and the Limits of U-boat Camaraderie in World War II: Reflections on a German Tragedy
• Robert J. Schneller, Jr., The Genesis of the Minority Recruiting Program at the U.S. Naval Academy, 1965–1976
• Douglas V. Smith, Preparing for War: Naval Education Between the World Wars
• Ian Speller, Amphibious Renaissance The Royal Navy and the Royal Marines, 1956-1966
• Carlos Tromben, Naval Presence: The Cruiser Esmerelda in Panama(English) / (Spanish)
• Anthony P. Tully, Calculating Scenarios in the Loss of CV Shōkaku
• Kevin J. Weddle , “There should be No Bungling About this Blockade:” The Blockade Board of 1861 and the Making of Union Naval Strategy
• Jeanie M. Welch, Without a Hangman, Without a Rope: Navy War Crimes Trials After World War II
• Linton Wells II, Computer Methods for Investigating Naval History Panel Overview and Summary
• Glenn F. Williams, Uncle Sam’s Webfeet: The Union Navy in the Civil War
• Richard Wolff, Computer Methods for Investigating CV Taihō

Edited by Professor Eric Mills.
Dalhousie University, Canada.

In Association with:
The International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science
Division of the History of Science
Commission of the History of Oceanography

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