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Program of the 15th Naval History Symposium

Department of History, U.S. Naval Academy

 

The Changing Roles of Seapower, 1775 to the Present

(roundtable discussion)

ChairDr. William N. Still, Jr., University of Hawaii at Manoa

Dr. Michael Palmer, Chair, Department of History, East Carolina University

Dr. William Dudley, Director, Naval Historical Center

Dr. David A. Rosenberg, Adm. Harry Hill Professor of Maritime

Strategy, National War College

 

French Naval Intelligence and Strategy since the Revolution

Chair: Capt. Charles W. Koburger, Jr., USCG (Ret.), Arlington, Virginia

French Naval Intelligence since the Revolution: An Overview

Alexandre Sheldon-Duplaix, Service historique de la Marine, Vincennes

French Naval Strategy and Imperial Defense in the Far East,

1898–1907

Dr. Pascal Venier, University of Salford, Manchester, U.K.

Comment: Capt. Charles W. Koburger, Jr., USCG (Ret.), Arlington, Virginia

 

The Union, Confederate, and Royal Navies in the Civil War

Chair: Dr. Wade G. Dudley, East Carolina University

Dangerous Waters: Meetings between Royal Naval Officers and Their

Union and Confederate Counterparts during the Civil War

Scott T. Cairns, London School of Economics

"This country now occupies the vantage ground": Understanding John Ericsson's 

Monitors and the American Union's War against British Naval Supremacy

Howard J. Fuller, King's College, London

USS Constellation and the American Civil War

Major Glenn F. Williams, USA (Ret.)

Comment: Dr. Wade G. Dudley, East Carolina University

 

The U.S. Marine Corps and Seapower, 1775 to the Present

(roundtable discussion)

Chair: BG Edwin B. Simmons, USMC (ret.), Director Emeritus, Marine

Corps History and Museums Division

Dr. Charles Neimeyer, Dean of Academics, Naval War College

Dr. Gregory J. W. Urwin, Temple University

Charles Melson, Chief Historian, Headquarters Marine Corps

 

Captain Michael A. Healy: An African-American in the U.S.

Revenue Cutter Service

Chair: Captain Dennis M. Egan, Chief, Coast Guard Headquarters Command

Center and the National Response Center

The Racial Identity of Captain Healy

Dr. James O'Toole, Boston College

The Courts Martial of Captain Healy

Dr. Dennis L. Noble, Sequim, Washington

Comment: Christopher Havern, U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office

 

Naval Inventors

Chair: Capt. Sam J. Tangredi, USN, National Defense University

Martha J. Coston: A Woman, A War, and a Signal to the World

Dr. Denise Pilato, Eastern Michigan University

Anglo-American Naval Inventors, 1890–1919: Last of a Breed

Dr. Hubert C. Johnson, Professor Emeritus, University of Saskatchewan

Comment:  Capt Sam J. Tangredi, USN, National Defense University

 

Black Men in the Union Navy during the Civil War

Chair: Dr. David L. Valuska, Kutztown University

Black Men in the Union Navy during the Civil War: Starting the

Research

Dr. David L. Valuska, Kutztown University

Black Men in the Union Navy during the Civil War: The Perspective

from the Howard University Black Sailors Research Project

Dr. Joseph P. Reidy, Howard University

"They called us 'bluejackets!'": An Exploration into the Naval

Experiences of South Carolina Freedmen in Port Royal, S.C.

Dr. Lisa Y. King, Morgan State University

". . . A Perfect Terror to the Rebel Community"

Dr. Roger A. Davidson, Jr., Coppin State College

Comment: Dr. David L. Valuska, Kutztown University

 

The Development of the Modern German Navy

Chair: Dr. Sarandis Papadopoulos, Contemporary History Branch, Naval

Historical Center

Officer Training in the Prussian Navy: The Professionalization of

the Naval Officer Corps, 1862–67

Dr. Terrell D. Gottschall, Walla Walla College

The Case of Oskar Kusch and the Limits of U-Boat Camaraderie in

World War II: Reflections on a German Tragedy

Dr. Eric C. Rust, Baylor University

Forerunners of the West German Bundesmarine: The Klose Fast Patrol

Group, the Naval Historical Team Bremerhaven, and the U.S. Navy's

Labor Service Unit (B)

Dr. Douglas Peifer, Air Command and Staff College

Comment: Dr. Sarandis Papadopoulos, Contemporary History Branch, Naval

Historical Center

 

The Development of a Modern Turkish Navy

Chair: Dr. Ernie Tucker, U.S. Naval Academy

Manning the Sultan's Ships: Observations on the Social History of the Ottoman Navy

 in the Nineteenth Century

William M. Blair, Princeton University

Building a Republican Navy in Turkey, 1924–39

Serhat Guvenc, Istanbul Bilgi University

Comment: Dr. Ernie Tucker, U.S. Naval Academy

 

Twentieth-Century Naval Mutinies

Chair: Dr. Christopher M. Bell, Naval War College

Racism or Poor Administration? Causes behind the Royal Indian Navy

Mutiny, February 1946

Dr. Chris Madsen, Canadian Forces College

The Mainguy Report and the Postwar Incidents in the Royal Canadian

Navy

Lieutenant Commander Richard Gimblett, Cdn. Navy (ret.),

Independent Naval Historian and Analyst

Chinese Twentieth-Century Naval Mutinies: The Case of the Chongqing

Dr. Bruce A. Elleman, Naval War College

 

The Royal Navy in the Fisher Era, 1870–1920

Chair: Dr. Paul Halpern, Florida State University

Ship to Shore: Young Officer Training in the Royal Navy, 1870–1902

Dr. Harry Dickinson, Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth

"Former Naval Person"? Winston Churchill during the Fisher Era

Dr. Eugene L. Rasor, Emory and Henry College

Trouble at the Admiralty: Fisher vs. Churchill, January 1915

Dr. Barry M. Gough, Wilfrid Laurier University

Comment: William Schleihauf, Pierrefonds, Quebec

 

World War II in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans

Chair: Dr. Jeffrey G. Barlow, Naval Historical Center

Allied versus German Codebreakers in the Battle of the Atlantic

Stephen Budiansky, Leesburg, Virginia

German Naval Strategy in Arctic Waters, 1942–43

Dr. Stanley D. M. Carpenter, Naval War College

Kehl: The German Employment of Airborne Guided-Weapons against

Allied Naval Targets, 1943–44

Dr. Timothy D. Saxon, Charleston Southern University

Comment: Dr. Jeffrey G. Barlow, Naval Historical Center

 

Iberoamerican Naval History

Chair: Dr. Carlos Lopez, Menlo College

Naval Presence: The Cruiser Esmeralda in Panama

Capt. Carlos Tromben, Chilean Navy (Ret.), Chief of Naval History

An Argentine Naval Buildup in the Disarmament Era: The Naval

Procurement Act of 1926

Capt. Guillermo J. Montenegro, Argentine Navy (Ret.), Naval War

College, Buenos Aires

The British-Peruvian Incident of 1844

Cdr. Jorge Ortiz-Sotelo, Ph.D., Peruvian Navy (Ret.)

Comment: Jorge Delano

 

Amphibious Warfare and Air Mobility in the Twentieth Century

Chair: Dr. Michael Palmer, East Carolina University

"A Special . . . Necessary Corps": U.S. Navy Field Medicine and the

Development of Amphibious Warfare, 1919–41

Dr. Leo J. Daugherty, American Military University

Flying Artillery: The Origins of U.S. Marine Corps Close Air Support

and Its Development and Practice in the Pacific War

Captain Keith Kopets, USMC

The Development of Air Mobility in the United States Army and Marine

Corps, 1945–53

Captain Carl J. Horn III, USA, U.S. Military Academy

Comment: Dr. Michael Palmer, East Carolina University

 

Scientists and War: Innovation and Change in World War II

Chair: Dr. Alex Roland, Shifrin Chair in History, U.S. Naval Academy

Admiral Grace Murray Hopper and the Early History of Computing

Kurt W. Beyer, University of California, Berkeley

The Great Disruption

Dr. M. Mitchell Waldrop, Washington, D.C.

Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II

Dr. Kathleen Broome Williams, Bronx Community College, CUNY

Comment: Dr. David Zimmerman, University of Victoria

 

Officer Education in the Twentieth-Century U.S. Navy

Chair: Dr. Hal M. Friedman, Henry Ford Community College

Preparing for War: Naval Education between the World Wars

Douglas V. Smith, Naval War College

The Genesis of the Minority Recruiting Program at the U.S. Naval

Academy, 1965–76

Dr. Robert Schneller, Contemporary History Branch, Naval Historical

Center

Revolutionary Change at Evolutionary Speed: Women at the U.S. Naval

Academy

H. Michael Gelfand, University of Arizona

Comment: Dr. Hal M. Friedman, Henry Ford Community College

 

The U.S. Navy in the Interwar Period

Chair: Dr. David E. Long, East Carolina University

The Harding Administration and U.S. Naval Policy: Time for a

Reassessment?

Dr. Manley R. Irwin, Professor Emeritus, University of New Hampshire

Dangerous Crossings: The First Modern Polar Expedition, 1925

Dr. Harold Cones, Christopher Newport University, and John H. Bryant, E.

Sound, WA

Learning the Enemy's Language: U.S. Navy Officer Language Students

in Japan, 1920–43

Dr. Richard H. Bradford, West Virginia University Institute of Technology

Comment: Dr. Thomas C. Hone, Office of the Secretary of Defense, PA&E

 

The English Experience with Amphibious Operations in the Seventeenth

and Eighteenth Centuries

Chair: Adam B. Siegel, Northrop Grumman Analysis Center

If It Can Go Wrong, It Will Go Wrong . . . and It Did: The English

Expedition to the Isle of Rhe in1627

Dr. Richard W. Stewart, Center of Military History

A Century of Change? Conjunct Expeditions against Cadiz, Spain

Adam B. Siegel, Northrop Grumman Analysis Center

The Theory and Practice of British Defense against Amphibious

Assault in the Eighteenth Century: Comparative Case Studies

Mark H. Danley, Kansas State University

Comment: Dr. Mark Charles Fissel, Associate Vice President for Academic

Affairs, Augusta State University

 

Controlling the River: The Mississippi River, the Navy, and an

Expanding Nation, 1804–65

Chair: Dr. James C. Bradford, Texas A&M University

Preventing the "Eggs of Insurrection" from Hatching: The U.S. Navy

and Control of the Mississippi River, 1804–15

Dr. Gene A. Smith, Texas Christian University

A Naval Depot and Dockyard on the Western Waters: The Rise and Fall

of the Memphis Navy Yard, 1844–54

Dr. Stanley J. Adamiak, University of Central Oklahoma

"Baptized anew in victory": Army-Navy Command Relationships on the

Mississippi during the American Civil War

Dr. Blake Dunnavent, Idaho State University

Comment: Dr. Spencer C. Tucker, Virginia Military Institute

 

Computer Methods for Investigating Naval History

Chair: Dr. William McBride, U. S. Naval Academy

Calculating Scenarios in the Loss of CV Shokaku

Anthony Tully, Technical Careers

Computer Methods for Investigating CV Taiho

Richard Wolff, U.S. Department of Energy

A Computer Database for Managing Naval Historical Data

Jon Parshall, is.com

Comment: Dr. Linton Wells II, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense

 

The Royal Navy in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth

Centuries

Chair: Dr. Dean C. Allard, Arlington, Virginia

Anglo-Russian Naval Rivalry in the Far East, 1885–1905

John Berryman, Birkbeck College, University of London

Losing the Initiative in Mercantile Warfare: Great Britain's

Surprising Failure to Anticipate Maritime Challenges to Her Global

Trading Network in the First World War

Angus K. Ross, Naval War College

Is It True What They Say about Sailors? Homoerotic Relations on the

Royal Navy's Lower Deck, 1900–45

Christopher McKee, Grinnell College

Comment: Dr. Dean C. Allard, Arlington, Virginia

 

Command and Leadership in the Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945

Chair: Robert J. Cressman, Naval Historical Center

Commerce War with Battleships: Admiral Erich Raeder and the

Conflict over German Fleet Operations, 1939–42

Dr. Keith W. Bird, Jr., Chancellor, Kentucky Community and

Technical College System

U-boat Radio Command, Submarine Logistics, and the Battle of the

Atlantic

Dr. Sarandis Papadopoulos, Contemporary History Branch, Naval

Historical Center

Admiral E. J. King, the British Commonwealth Navies, and the

Entrance of the United States into Atlantic Escort-of-Convoy

Operations, July–November 1941

Dr. Roger Sarty, Deputy Director, Canadian War Museum

Comment: Dr. Philip K. Lundeberg, Curator Emeritus of Naval History,

National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

 

The Blockade in the Civil War

Chair: Dr. B. F. Cooling, Industrial College of the Armed Forces

The Blockade Board of 1861 and Union Naval Strategy

Colonel Kevin J. Weddle, USA, Army War College

The Federal Navy and the Consular Service in the Civil War: A

Neglected Key to Union Victory

Dr. Frank T. Edwards, Professor Emeritus, California University of

Pennsylvania

The Vincennes and the Richmond: An Unpublished Sailmaker's Journal,

1861–65

Dr. Robert M. Oxley, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Comment: Dr. B. F. Cooling, Industrial College of the Armed Forces

 

Naval Revitalization, 1884–1907

Chair: Dr. Suzanne Geissler, William Paterson University

The Enduring Influence of Secretary of the Navy Robeson and the

Creation of the New Navy

Dr. Alfred C. Holden, Fordham University

In the Shadow of Briggs: A New Perspective on British Naval

Administration and W. T. Stead's 1884 "Truth about the Navy"

Campaign

Dr. John Beeler, University of Alabama

The Lasting Influence of Theodore Roosevelt's Naval War of 1812

Dr. Michael J. Crawford, Early History Branch, Naval

Historical Center

Comment: Dr. Suzanne Geissler, William Paterson University

 

Navies in the Atomic Age

Chair: Dr. David F. Winkler, Naval Historical Foundation

The United States Navy's Early Atomic Energy Research, 1939–46

Joseph-James Ahern, American Philosophical Society

Without a Hangman, without a Rope: Navy War Crimes Trials after

World War II

Jeanie Maxine Welch, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Caribbean Missile Crisis, 1962: The World on the Brink of Nuclear

Catastrophe

Captain First Rank Igor A. Amosov, Soviet Navy (ret.), Russian

Academy of Natural Sciences

Soviet Naval Facilities in Somalia and Their Importance in the 1970s

Leah Blakey, St. Louis University

Comment: Dr. David F. Winkler, Naval Historical Foundation

 

Twentieth-Century Amphibious Policy and Plans in the U.S. and U.K.

Chair: W. J. R. Gardner, Naval Historical Branch, U. K. Ministry of

Defence

Refusal to Learn from Others' Experience: Omar Bradley and Omaha Beach

Dr. Williamson Murray, Institute of Defense Analysis

The Great Landings, 1917

Captain C. L. W. Paige, RN (Ret.)

United Kingdom Amphibious Renaissance: The Royal Navy and the Royal

Marines, 1956–66

Dr. I. A. Speller, Joint Services Command and Staff College, U.K.

Comment: Dr. Richard Harding, University of Westminster

 

 

 

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