As part of the United States Navy Memorial’s “Authors on Deck” book lecture series, author Christopher Bell will present his latest work, Churchill and Sea Power (Oxford University Press, 2012).  Bell addresses a surprisingly neglected aspect of Winston Churchill's career: his attitude to sea power. Churchill's relationship to the Royal Navy was closer and more

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As part of the United States Navy Memorial’s “Authors on Deck” book lecture series in honor of Black History Month, author Bland Simpson will present his literary work, Two Captains from Carolina: Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt, and the Coming of the Civil War (University of North Carolina Press; September 2012).  Two Captains from Carolina

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As part of the United States Navy Memorial’s “Authors on Deck” book lecture series, former U.S. Navy SEAL trainer, star of the 2012 box-office hit Act of Valor and author Rorke Denver will present his first work, DAMN FEW: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior (Hyperion, February 2013).  In his book, Denver speaks with unparalleled knowledge

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The Maritime Committee of the Maryland Historical Society is co-sponsoring with the University of Baltimore a book-talk on Friday evening, February 22, 2013. The author is Professor Paul Gilje, whose new book is called Free Trade and Sailors' Rights in the War of 1812. To be published by the Cambridge University Press. Organizers expect the

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