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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…]]> Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:14:25 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4612095/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…]]> Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:14:25 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4611936/Patroons-and-Periaguas
An exploration of the impact of ethnically diverse enslaved watermen on the maritime history of the New World

Patroons and Periaguas explores the intricately interwoven and colorful cre…]]> Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:14:25 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4611884/A-Sea-of-Misadventures
An investigation of how the trauma of shipwreck affected American values and behavior

A Sea of Misadventures examines more than one hundred documented shipwreck narratives from the seve…]]> Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:14:25 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4611881/USS-Constellation-on-the-Dismal-Coast
A firsthand account of daily life aboard an American warship intercepting slave-trading vessels

Today the twenty-gun sloop USS Constellation is a floating museum in Baltimore Harbor; in…]]> Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:14:25 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4611787/Promotion-or-the-Bottom-of-the-River
Detailed accounts of the career of a United States and Confederate naval officer

South Carolinian Alexander F. Warley (1823-1895) was an exceptional naval officer who enjoyed a robust l…]]> Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:14:25 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4611675/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…]]> Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:14:25 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4611646/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…]]> Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:14:25 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4611608/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…]]> Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:14:25 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4611476/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…]]> Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:14:25 -0800