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A concise analysis of the decay of the merchant marine through the failed policies that have been imposed upon the industry

The Abandoned Ocean offers an in-depth appraisal of United St…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534620/Captain-James-Carlin
A portrait of one of the most successful blockade runners who brought vital supplies to Confederate forces

Captain James Carlin is a biography of a shadowy nineteenth-century British Co…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534458/Patroons-and-Periaguas
Patroons and Periaguas explores the intricately interwoven and colorful creole maritime legacy of Native Americans, Africans, enslaved and free African Americans, and Europeans who settled alo…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534405/A-Sea-of-Misadventures
A Sea of Misadventures examines more than one hundred documented shipwreck narratives from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century as a means to understanding gender, status, and religion in…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534402/USS-Constellation-on-the-Dismal-Coast
Today the twenty-gun sloop USS Constellation is a floating museum in Baltimore Harbor; in 1859 it was an emblem of the global power of the American sailing navy. When young William E. Leonard…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534307/Promotion-or-the-Bottom-of-the-River
South Carolinian Alexander F. Warley (1823-1895) was an exceptional naval officer who enjoyed a robust life of far-flung adventures at sea during several dramatic periods in American maritime…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534195/Lewis-Coolidge-and-the-Voyage-of-the-Amethyst-1806-1811
A firsthand account of a nineteenth-century sealing expedition that recalls the spirit of Herman Melville

Lewis Coolidge (1783-1871) was a nephew of Billy Dawes, the man who accompanied…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534166/Guardian-of-Savannah
The remarkable story of how an earthen fort defense shielded a Southern city from the ironclad monitors of the U.S. Navy

Built out of sand and mud, Fort McAllister was designed to serve…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534128/Dead-Men-Tell-No-Tales
A chronicle of murders, mutiny, and mayhem carried out by a real pirate of the Caribbean

Dead men tell no tales, or so the pirate maxim goes. But shortly before execution for mutiny and…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1533997/Ironclads-and-Big-Guns-of-the-Confederacy
An inside look at the Confederacy's military science and technology

Loaded with previously unavailable information about the Confederate Navy's effort to supply its fledgling forces, th…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700