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Maritime Currents: History and Archaeology

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I Am Fighting for the Union

I Am Fighting for the Union

The Civil War Letters of Naval Officer Henry Willis Wells

by Henry Willis Wells

Edited by Robert M. Browning Jr.

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817361051

Pub Date: April 2023

Format: Paperback

An insightful, detailed, and invaluable account of daily life in the Union Navy

Hard Aground

Hard Aground

The Wreck of the USS Tennessee and the Rise of the US Navy

by Andrew C. A. Jampoler

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817361082

Pub Date: March 2023

Format: Paperback

Three intertwined stories highlighting the many challenges the US Navy faced during strategic and material evolution
 
Clotilda

Clotilda

The History and Archaeology of the Last Slave Ship

by James P. Delgado, Deborah E. Marx, Kyle Lent, Joseph Grinnan and Alexander DeCaro

Foreword by D. Lisa D. Jones and Stacye Hathorn

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9780817321512

Pub Date: March 2023

Format: Hardcover

Documents the maritime historical research and archaeological fieldwork used to identify the wreck of the notorious schooner Clotilda
 
Valor and Courage

Valor and Courage

The Story of the USS Block Island Escort Carriers in World War II

by Benjamin J. Hruska

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817360696

Pub Date: February 2022

Format: Paperback

Recounts the stories of the USS Block Island CVE 21 and CVE 106 and their crews, many of whom served on both ships in the Atlantic and Pacific theatres
On Wide Seas

On Wide Seas

The US Navy in the Jacksonian Era

by Claude Berube

Price: $54.95

ISBN: 9780817321079

Pub Date: December 2021

Format: Hardcover

A meticulously researched account of how the US Navy evolved between the War of 1812 and the Civil War

 
Emergency Deep

Emergency Deep

Cold War Missions of a Submarine Commander

by Alfred Scott McLaren

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817320928

Pub Date: May 2021

Format: Hardcover

Conveys in dramatic detail the high-risk, covert operations of a nuclear attack submarine during the zenith of the Cold War
 
Cayman’s 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail

Cayman's 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail

Peace, War, and Peril in the Caribbean

by Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817359652

Pub Date: December 2019

Format: Paperback

The greatest shipwreck disaster in the history of the Cayman Islands
Octopus Crowd

Octopus Crowd

Maritime History and the Business of Australian Pearling in Its Schooner Age

by Stephen Mullins

Price: $54.95

ISBN: 9780817320249

Pub Date: August 2019

Format: Hardcover

A detailed study of the origins and demise of schooner-based pearling in Australia
To My Dearest Wife, Lide

To My Dearest Wife, Lide

Letters from George B. Gideon Jr. during Commodore Perry’s Expedition to Japan, 1853–1855

by M. Patrick Sauer and David A. Ranzan

Price: $49.95

ISBN: 9780817320232

Pub Date: July 2019

Format: Hardcover

A personal account of Commodore Perry’s landmark expedition to Japan and life in the antebellum navy
Standing Watch

Standing Watch

American Submarine Veterans Remember the Cold War Era

by Jonathan Li-Chung Leung

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817359577

Pub Date: April 2019

Format: Paperback

The first book to capture and preserve the inside story of the exclusive brotherhood that manned the front lines of the Cold War
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