The John Lyman Book Awards are given annually by the North American Society for Oceanic History for books published in six categories in the broad field of Maritime history:
Year | Author | Book |
2008 | Robert Malcomson | Capital in Flames: The American Attack on York, 1813. (Montreal: Robin Brass Studio; Annapolis, Mary.: Naval Institute Press) |
2008 Honorable Mention | Freeman M. Tovell | At the Far Reaches of Empire: The Life of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra. (Vancouver: University British Columbia Press) |
2007 | Barry Gough | Fortune's River: The Collision of Empires in Northwest America (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing Co., Ltd.) |
2006 | Jennifer M. Hubbard | A Science on the Scales: The Rise of Canadian Atlantic Fisheries Biology, 1898-1939 (University of Toronto Press) |
2006 Honorable Mention | Barry Gough | Through Water, Ice and Fire: Schooner Nancy of the War of 1812 (Dundurn Press) |
2005 | Stuart E. Jenness | The Making of an Explorer: George Hubert Wilkins and the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-1916. (McGill-Queen's University) |
2005 Honorable Mention | Jonathan R. Dull | The French Navy and the Seven Years' War (University of Nebraska Press) |
2004 | Peter E. Pope | Fish into Wine: The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century (University of North Carolina Press) |
2004 Honorable Mention | Fraser M. McKee | "Sink all the shipping there": The Wartime Loss of Canada's Merchant Ships and Fishing Schooners (Vanwell Publishing) |
2003 | Julian Gywn | Frigates and Foremasts: The North American Squadron in Nova Scotia Waters, 1745-1815 (University of British Columbia) |
2002 | John Griffith Armstrong | The Halifax Explosion and the Royal Canadian Navy (University of British Columbia Press) |
2001 | Robert Malcomson | Warships of the Great Lakes, 1754-1834 (UK: Chatham Publishing/US: Naval Institute Press) |
2000 | Arnold Hague | Allied Convoy System, 1939-1945 (Vanwell Publishing Ltd. In Canada; Chatham Publishing in Great Britain; Naval Institute Press in the U.S.) |
1999 | James P. Delgado | Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage (Checkmark Books) |
1998 | Robert Malcomson | Lords of the Lake: The Naval War on Lake Ontario, 1812-1814 (Robin Brass Studio) |
1997 | Peter E. Pope | The Many Landfalls of John Cabot (University of Toronto Press) |
1996 | Edited by Michael L. Hadley, Rob Huebert, Fred W. Crickard |
A Nation's Navy: In Quest of Canadian Naval Identity (McGill Queen's University Press) |
1995 | James Pritchard | Anatomy of a Naval Disaster: The 1746 French Expedition to North America. (McGill-Queen's University Press) |
Year | Author | Book |
2008 | Craig L. Symonds | Lincoln and His Admirals. (New York: Oxford University Press) |
2008 Honorable Mention | Howard J. Fuller | Clad in Iron: The American Civil War and the Challenge of British Naval Power. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger Security International) |
2008 Honorable Mention | John T. Kuehn | Agents of Innovation: The General Board and the Design of the Fleet that Defeated the Japanese. (Annapolis, Mary.: Naval Institute Press) |
2007 | Lisle A. Rose | Power at Sea: vol. 1. The Age of Navalism, 1890-1918; vol. 2. The Breaking Storm, 1919-1945; vol. 3. A Violent Peace, 1946-2006 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press) |
2006 | William N. Still, Jr. | Crisis at Sea: The U.S. Navy in European Waters in World War I (University Press of Florida) |
2006 Honorable Mention | James D. Hornfischer | Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors (Bantam Books) |
2005 | Jonathan Parshall Anthony Tully |
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway. (Potomac) |
2005 Honorable Mention | Craig L. Symonds | Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles that Shaped American History (Oxford University Press) |
2004 | Michael J. Bennett | Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War (University of North Carolina Press) |
2004 Honorable Mention | R. Blake Dunnavent | Brown Water Warfare: The U.S. Navy in Riverine Warfare and the Emergence of Tactical Doctrine, 1775-1970. (University Press of Florida) |
2004 Honorable Mention | John Darrell Sherwood | Afterburner: Naval Aviation and the Vietnam War (New York University Press) |
2003 | Jack Friend | West Wind, Flood Tide: The Battle of Mobile Bay (Naval Institute Press) |
2002 | Mitchell B. Lerner | The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy (University Press of Kansas) |
2001 | Kathleen Broome Williams | Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II (Naval Institute Press) |
2000 | William Henry Flayhart III | The American Line, 1871-1902 (W.W. Norton & Co.) |
1998 | Jack Sweetman, ed. | Great American Naval Battles (Naval Institute Press) |
1997 | David Curtis Skaggs Gerard T. Altoff |
A Signal Victory: The Lake Erie Campaign, 1812-1813 (Naval Institute Press) |
1996 | Malcolm Muir | Black Shoes and Blue Water: Surface Warfare in the United States Navy. 1945 1975 (Naval Historical Center) |
1995 | Jeffery G. Barlow | Revolt of the Admirals: The Fight for Naval Aviation, 1945-1950 (Naval Historical Center) |
1995 | Charles Dana Gibson E. Kay Gibson |
Assault and Logistics: Union Army Coastal and River Operations, 1861 1866 and Dictionary of Transports and Combatant Vessels Steam and Sail Employed by the Union Army, 1861 1868 (Ensign Press) |
Year | Author | Book |
2008 | William E. Lass | Navigating the Missouri: Steamboating on Nature's Highway, 1819-1935. (Norman, Okla.: Arthur H. Clark Co.) |
2008 | Frances F. Dunwell | The Hudson: America's River. (New York: Columbia University Press) |
2007 | Eric Jay Dolin | Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America (New York: W.W. Norton and Company) |
2007 | Donald G. Shomette | Shipwrecks, Sea Raiders, and Maritime Disasters along the Delmarva Coast, 1632-2004 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press) |
2006 | Joshua M. Smith | Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783-1820 (University Press of Florida) |
2006 Honorable Mention | Eric Robert Taylor | If We Must Die: Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade (Louisiana State University Press) |
2005 | Peter L. Bernstein | Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation, (W. W. Norton & Co.) |
2005 Honorable Mention | Edwin L. Dunbaugh | New England Steamship Company: Long Island Sound Night Boats in the Twentieth Century (University Press of Florida) |
2004 | Paul A. Gilje | Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution. (University of Pennsylvania Press) |
2004 Honorable Mention: | James A. McMillan | The Final Victims: Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783-1810 (University of South Carolina Press) |
2003 | ALex R. Larzelere | The Coast Guard in World War I: An Untold Story (Naval Institute Press) |
2002 | Wade G. Dudley | Splintering the Wooden Wall (Naval Institute Press) |
2001 | Nicholas Dean | Snow Squall: The Last American Clipper Ship (Tilbury House, Publishers and Maine Maritime Museum) |
2000 | Lisa Norling | Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 (University of North Carolina Press) |
2000 Honorable mention | Ralph Linwood Snow Douglas K. Lee |
A Shipyard in Maine: Percy & Small and the Great Schooners (Tilbury House, Publishers and Maine Maritime Museum) |
1999 | Charles R. Schultz | Forty-Niners 'Round the Horn (University of South Carolina Press) |
1999 Honorable mention: | Alexander Boyd Hawes | Off Soundings: Aspects of the Maritime History of Rhode Island (Posterity Press) |
1998 | Benjamin W. Labaree, William M. Fowler, Jr., John Hattendorf, Jeffrey J. Safford, Edward W. Sloan, and Andrew German | America and the Sea: A Maritime History (Mystic Seaport Museum) |
1997 | W. Jeffrey Bolster | Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail (Harvard University Press) |
1996 | Wayne M. O'Leary | Maine Sea Fisheries: The Rise and Fall of a Native Industry, 1830 1890 (Northeastern University Press) |
1995 | William C. Fleetwood, Jr. | Tidecraft: The Boats of South Carolina, Georgia, and Northeastern Florida, 1550 1950 (WBG Marine Press) |
Year | Author | Book |
2008 | David Hackett Fischer | Champlain's Dream: The Visionary Adventurer Who Made a New World in Canada. (New York: Simon and Schuster) |
2007 | Stephen Fox | Wolf of the Deep: Raphael Semmes and the Notorious Confederate Raider CSS Alabama (New York: Alfred Knopf) |
2006 | Mary Malloy | Devil on the Deep Blue Sea: The Notorious Career of Captain Samuel Hill of Boston (Bullbrier Press) |
2006 | David Curtis Skaggs | Oliver Hazard Perry: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy (Naval Institute Press) |
2006 Honorable Mention | John H. Schroeder | Commodore John Rodgers: Paragon of the Early American Navy (University Press of Florida) |
2005 | Clark G. Reynolds | On the Warpath in the Pacific: Admiral Jocko Clark and the Fast Carriers, (Naval Institute Press) |
2004 | Kathleen Broome Williams | Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea (Naval Institute Press) |
2003 | Thomas Wildenberg | All the Factors of Victory: Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves and the Origins of Carrier Airpower (Brassey's) |
2001 | John H. Schroeder | Matthew Calbraith Perry: Antebellum Sailor and Diplomat (Naval Institute Press) |
2000 | Spencer Tucker | Andrew Foote: Civil War Admiral on Western Waters (Naval Institute Press) |
1999 | Craig Symonds | Confederate Admiral: The Life and Wars of Franklin Buchanan (Naval Institute Press) |
1998 | W. Gillies Ross | This Distant and Unsurveyed Country: A Woman's Winter at Baffin Island, 1857-58 (McGill-Queen's University Press) |
1997 | Catherine Petroski | A Bride's Passage: Susan Hathorn's Year Under Sail (Northeastern University Press) |
1996 | Robert Schneller | A Quest for Glory: A Biography of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren (Naval Institute Press) |
Year | Author | Book |
2008 | Gary Kroll | America's Ocean Wilderness: A Cultural History of Twentieth-Century Exploration. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas) |
2008 Honorable Mention | Russell A. Potter | Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818-1875. (Seattle: University of Washington Press) |
2007 | Larrie D. Ferreiro | Ships and Science: The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800 (Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press) |
2006 | Anthony Newpower | Iron Men and Tin Fish: Race to Build a Better Torpedo during World War II (Praeger) |
2004 Honorable Mention | Marc Levinson | The Box: How the Shipping container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (Princeton University Press) |
2005 | Helen M Rozwadowski | Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea, (Belknap/Harvard University Press) |
2002 | Steven J. Dick | Sky and Ocean Joined: The U.S. Naval Observatory, 1830-2000 (Cambridge University Press) |
2002 | William H. Roberts | Civil War Ironclads (Johns Hopkins University Press) |
2001 | Gary E. Weir | An Ocean in Common: American Naval Officers, Scientists, and the Ocean Environment (Texas A&M University Press) |
1997 | Thomas R. Heinrich | Ships for the Seven Seas: Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism (Johns Hopkins University Press) |
1995 | Harold D. Langley | History of Medicine in the Early U.S. Navy (Johns Hopkins University Press) |
Year | Author | Book |
2008 | George J. Billy, Christine M. Billy |
Merchant Mariners at War: An Oral History of World War II. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida) |
2008 Honorable Mention | Robert Eric Barde | Immigration at the Golden Gate: Passenger Ships, Exclusion, and Angel Island. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger) |
2007 | John B. Hattendorf, Editor in Chief |
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History (New York: Oxford University Press) |
2007 Honorable Mention | Deidre Simmons | Keepers of the Record: The History of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press) |
2006 | Ralph Sessions | The Shipcarvers' Art: Figureheads and Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton University Press) |
2006 Honorable Mention | C. Danial Elliott, Everett C. Wilkie, Jr., Richard Ring |
Maritime History: A Hand-list of the Collection in the John Carter Brown Library (1474 to ca.1860) (The John Carter Brown Library) |
2004 | W.H. Bunting | Sea Struck (Martha's Vineyard Historical Society) |
2003 | C. Herbert Gilliland | Voyage to a Thousand Cares: Master's Mate Lawrence with the African Squadron, 1844-1846 (Naval Institute Press) |
2002 | Michael J. Crawford, Editor |
The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History, vol. 3 (Naval Historical Center) |
2000 | David Freeman | Canadian Warship Names (Vanwell Publishing Ltd.) |
1999 | Robert J. Cressman | The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II (Naval Institute Press) |
1998 | Harold B. Gill, Jr. Joanne Young |
Searching for the Franklin Expedition: The Arctic Journal of Robert Randolph Carter, (Naval Institute Press) |
1997 | Briton C. Busch Barry M. Gough, Editor |
Fur Traders from New England: The Boston Men in the North Pacific, 1787-1800 (The Arthur H. Clark Company) |
1996 | Michael Crawford, Editor |
The Naval Documents of the American Revolution, vol. 10 (Naval Historical Center) |
1995 | Craig L. Symonds | The Naval Institute's Historical Atlas of U.S. Navy (Naval Institute Press) |