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IJNH logo   April 2003  Volume 2  Issue 1

The objective of the International Journal of Naval History is to provide a pre-eminent forum for works of naval history researched and written to demonstrable academic standards. Our hope is to stimulate and promote research into naval history and foster communication among naval historians at an international level.

 
ARTICLES

 

 

Editorial

Focusing on the Process of Doing History

Gary E. Weir, for the Editors

 

The Uses of Maritime History in and for the Navy. 

John B. Hattendorf

Chair, Department of Maritime History 

U.S. Naval War College

 

 

From the Annual Meeting of the Society for History in the Federal Government (USA), 2003: 

 

“We had the hose turned on us!” Ross Gunn and The Naval Research Laboratory’s Early Research into Nuclear Propulsion, 1939 – 1946.

Joseph – James Ahern,

American Philosophical Society Library

 

From Surveillance to Global WarmingJohn Steinberg and Ocean Acoustics

Gary E. Weir

U.S. Naval Historical Center

 

The Navy’s Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation (RDT&E) Management Archives

Eric Hazell

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Virginia

 

Society for History in the Federal Government 2003 Session on Research and Development in the U.S. Navy

Comment by David van Keuren

Historian, Naval Research Laboratory

 

 

 

WORKS IN PROGRESS

AND

HISTORICAL NOTES

 

 

A Question Posed by the Editors of the IJNH:

Privacy and Scholarship -- The Need to Establish a More Productive Working Relationship: The Case of the Deutsche Dienststelle (WASt) 

 

 

COMMUNITY NEWS

 

The Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial:

Three-Day Naval & Military History Symposium

 

Department of War Studies, 

King’s College, London

Announcing Research Studentships in 

Naval History: The Laughton Scholarships

 

U.S. Naval Historical Center 

Washington D.C. 

Naval History Workshop, 24-26 June 2003

 

The Naval War College Foundation and the Maritime History Department of the U.S. Naval War College announce, 

The Edward S. Miller Research Fellowship in Naval History.

 

 

 

 

 

 

BOOK REVIEWS

 

David Curtis Skaggs, Thomas Macdonough: Master of Command in the Early U.S. Navy (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2003).  $36.95.

Reviewed by Michael J. Crawford, U.S. Naval Historical Center, Washington, D.C.

 

Bill Carter and Merri Sue Carter, Latitude: How American Astronomers Solved the Mystery of Variation (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2002), $24.95.

Reviewed by Steven J. Dick, U. S. Naval Observatory

 

James H. Ellis, Mad Jack Percival: Legend of the Old Navy (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2002), $34.95)

Reviewed by Christine F. Hughes, U.S. Naval Historical Center, Washington, D.C.

 

Joseph F. Callo, Nelson in the Caribbean: The Hero Emerges, 1784-1787.  Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2002.  $34.95.

Reviewed by LCDR Douglas McLean, Officer in Charge (Canadian Contingent), Naval Air Station, Whidbey Island.

 

Charles J. Gross,  American Military Aviation:  The Indispensable Arm.  College Station, Texas:  Texas A&M University Press, 2002. $35.00 (cloth).

Reviewed by John Darrell Sherwood, U.S. Naval Historical Center

 

 




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