Robert G. Albion

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Robert G. Albion (15 August 1896 - 9 August 1983) was the first Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University. He held that position from 1949 to 1963. Educated at Bowdoin College, A.B., 1918, he received his Master's degree in 1920 and his PhD in History from Harvard in 1924. He began his teaching career at Princeton University as an instructor in 1922 and rose to be professor of history and assistant dean of the faculty. In 1942, he was given an adjunct appointment as historian of Naval Administration, U.S. Navy Department, a position he held until 1950. In 1955, he founded and was the first director of the Munson Institute of American Maritime History at Mystic Seaport, a summer graduate program in which he trained and inspired many of the nation's leading maritime historians.

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• Forests and Seapower (1926)
• Square-Riggers on Schedule (1938)
• The Rise of New York Port (1939)
• Seaports South of the Sahara (1959)
• Maritime and Naval History: An Annotated Bibliography (1972)
• The Makers of Naval Policy, 1798-1947 (1980)