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View from the Quarterdeck: December 2021
February 2, 2022
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 it: a digital journal intended to be a naval history … CONTINUE READING ❯
New Editorial Board Members (2021)
May 12, 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 include Midshipmen and Quarterdeck Boys in the British Navy 1771-1831; chapter … CONTINUE READING ❯
View from the Quarterdeck: December 2020
December 30, 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 American election of November 2020, perhaps we are about to … CONTINUE READING ❯
View from the Quarterdeck: December 2015
December 6, 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 the symposium on enhancing maritime security in the Mediterranean, Admiral … CONTINUE READING ❯
View from the Quarterdeck: July 2015
July 21, 2015
In the summer of 2015, l’Hermione, a beautifully reconstructed replica of an 18th century, three-masted, 32-gun, Concorde class French frigate visited ports on the east coast of North America from Yorktown, Virginia, to Lunenberg, Nova Scotia. Her namesake vessel gained fame in 1780 by ferrying the Marquis de Lafayette to America with secret news that … CONTINUE READING ❯
View from the Quarterdeck: July 2014
July 1, 2014
Have you ever wondered why it is that some individuals seem to be almost innately curious about the study of history? I vividly recall my mentor at the University of Washington, Professor Wilton B. Fowler, saying at the beginning of his course on U.S. Diplomatic History, “History is both my vocation and my avocation!” For … CONTINUE READING ❯
View from the Quarterdeck
October 10, 2013
Over the summer during a visit to France I came upon a moving reminder of the importance of a journal dedicated to encouraging academic scholarship in the field of international naval history. Just several hundred meters inland from the imposing U. S. Navy Monument in Normandy dedicated by the Naval Order of the United States, … CONTINUE READING ❯