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4 June 2024
Welcome back to our National Maritime Historical Society members and friends who share a love for naval history!
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Today marks the 82nd anniversary of the pivotal day of the Battle of Midway when American dive bombers off Yorktown and Enterprise would land fatal hits against Kaga, Soryu, Akagi, and finally Hiryu–four of the six Japanese aircraft carriers that had participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor six months earlier. Last night at the Army-Navy Country Club in Arlington Virginia, the Chief of the Navy Reserve, Vice Adm. John Mustin gave an eloquent talk saluting his grandfather, Lloyd M. Mustin, who was assigned as the assistant gunnery officer in the light cruiser Atlanta and the thousands of other sailors who served in the ships of Task Forces 16 and 17. Well done to the consortium of organizations who supported last night’s event and kudos to other groups around the country who will be hosting additional events today to commemorate this American naval victory.
Thursday will mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day. As detailed in Craig Symonds’s Operation Neptune (Oxford University Press, 2016), it took quite a bit of sealift to get the allied divisions onto the shores of Normandy. National Maritime Historical Society chairman Capt. Jim Noone will be travelling to England and France to visit historically significant sights and will offer his observations in an upcoming edition of Tuesday Tidings. For Naval History and Heritage Command’s take on both anniversaries see: https://www.history.navy.mil/news-and-
events/news/2024/nhm-052824.html
Weeks ago, we featured the Mariner’s Mirror podcast episode “The Dreadnought Hoax - SNR” with Dr. Danell Jones, who spoke on her book The Girl Prince: Virginia Woolf, Race and the Dreadnought Hoax. (By coincidence, award-winning author Andrew K. Blackley covers the same topic in this month’s edition of Naval History.) This week we feature Dr. John R. Satterfield’s review of the Jones book. Enjoy! Added to the books available for review is Evan Mawdsley’s Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory (Yale University Press, 2024) and Gen. Kenneth McKenzie’s The Melting Point: High Command in the 21st Century (Naval Institute Press, 2024). Of note on the latter book, the Naval Institute will be hosting a podcast recording session before a live audience at the Jack C. Taylor Conference Center with the former US Central Command commander on Wednesday, 12 June, at 1 PM. Deadline to register for this special event is next Monday! See link below.
Tuesday Tidings is compiled by Dr. David F. Winkler and Jessie Henderson as a benefit for members of the National Maritime Historical Society and friends of naval history.
As always, comments are welcome at nmhs@seahistory.org.
| ITEMS OF IMMEDIATE INTEREST | |
6 June 2024 – 80th Anniversary of D-Day at Museum Dedicated to D-Day Veteran Yogi Berra
With Rear Admirals Sam Cox, Sonny Masso, and historian Paul Stillwell
11 AM–12:30 (EDT) Yogi Berra Learning Center and Museum, Little Falls, NJ
Lecture at 7 PM EST, Q&A to Follow
Buy the book here>>
6–7 June 2024 – World War II Museum Symposium, New Orleans
D+1 Beyond the Beaches
With Bob McLaughlin
8–9 PM (EDT) (Zoom)
With Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie, USMC (Ret.)
1–2 PM (in person)
Josiah Tattnall: Last CO of CSS Virginia
With John Quarstein
Noon–1 PM (in person/virtual)
20–22 June 2024 – North American Society for Oceanic History/Canadian Nautical Research Society conference
St. Catharines, Ontario
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Countdown to 2024 Joint NASOH/CNRS/Brock Conference Continues
List of Books Being Considered for Lyman Awards Revealed
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A joint conference of the North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH) and the Canadian Nautical Research Society (CNRS) is still on track to occur on 20–22 June on the campus of Brock University at St. Catharines, Ontario. A run-down of naval history presentations was previewed previously in Tuesday Tidings and the complete program can be viewed HERE. Besides providing scholars an opportunity to present the fruits of their research, the conference offers recognition opportunities with the most noted being the John R. Lyman Book Awards. NASOH offers prizes for the following categories:
1. Maritime and Nautical Archaeology
2. Maritime and Naval Biography and Autobiography
3. Maritime and Naval Reference Works and Published Primary Sources
4. Maritime and Naval Science, Technology, and Environment
5. North American Maritime History
6. North American Naval History
7. World Maritime History
8. World Naval History
Thank you Lincoln Paine for compiling a list of over 110 submissions. For those authors who have had books submitted by their publishers for prize consideration, here is your opportunity to scope out the competition! The winners and honorable mentions will be announced at the 22 June closing banquet and will be posted in our 25 June edition. An advanced HUZZAH for those who served on the book prize committee! No doubt you now likely have a stronger prescription of reading glasses!
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US 1805 Club to Host Tour of Nelson Artifacts held at the Mariners’ Museum
The US 1805 Club will be conducting a tour of Nelson artifacts at the Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, Virginia, on Saturday, 29 June, at 11:00 AM. The guide will be Jeanne Willoz-Egnor, the museum’s curator of maritime history and culture. If you have an interest in participating in the tour, please contact Harold E. “Pete” Stark (starkhe2@gmail.com) as soon as possible so that he can let the museum know of the Club’s anticipated attendance and get an idea for how many will be having lunch together. The museum is located at 100 Museum Dr, Newport News, VA 23606. Parking is ample and free and admission for the museum is $1.00, yes, only $1.00. Following the tour the Club welcomes you to join them for lunch at Harpoon Larry’s seafood restaurant (621 J Clyde Morris Blvd, Newport News, VA 23601).
In addition, the Club will be hosting its Battle of the Nile luncheon at noon on Saturday, 27 July at Il Porto restaurant in Alexandria, VA. Details forthcoming.
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Call for Hosts of the 2027 Society for Military History Meeting (March–April 2027)
The Society for Military History seeks proposals from organizations and individuals to help host the 2027 meeting. The 2023 conference in Arlington, Virginia, saw 928 participants at an intellectually stimulating event.
Interested parties are requested to submit a proposal, no longer than two single-spaced pages, outlining the following:
- Hotel availability at affordable prices in the city, as well as a general sense of costs in the area, including restaurants and ground travel. This should also include information about the airport and other infrastructure.
- Subsidies or subventions that can be provided by local institutions of higher learning, historical associations, museums, and local chambers of commerce to help with the significant cost of the conference. In-kind contributions, such as space to host receptions or other events, will also be considered.
- People and organizations in the area willing to provide logistical support and act as local arrangement managers.
- Local attractions for people in the field, including museums and archives.
Please submit your application by 15 July 2024 to Kyle Longley at longley@chapman.edu.
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Victory at Sea Ian Marshall watercolors are available for acquisition!
Tuesday Tidings co-compiler Dave Winkler, author of America's First Aircraft Carrier, spotted an Ian Marshall watercolor of his book’s subject in Paul Kennedy’s Victory at Sea and learned through Kennedy that many of the gorgeous illustrations featured in the book are available for acquisition. To celebrate his recent Naval Institute Press publication, Winkler acquired the USS Langley watercolor with the assistance of the deceased artist’s daughter, Dr. Jessie Marshall Zarazaga. For information regarding the availability of other images, she can be reached at architect@jessiemarshall.com.
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The Girl Prince: Virginia Woolf, Race and the Dreadnought Hoax
By Danell Jones, C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., London (2023)
Reviewed by Dr. John R. Satterfield
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...So, it is of great interest that Jones’s story shows how the Dreadnought hoax ignored its implicit but negative impact on Black people in Britain and around the world. Although the empire had first outlawed slavery more than a century earlier, and Britain excoriated America’s segregation and Jim Crow laws, the truth is the seat of empire still advocated white supremacy, anti-Semitism, and color bars that lasted until World War II. Racism remains in Britain today just as it continues in the United States and elsewhere.
This reviewer has focused on military history for decades, but it is important to recognize that social and military heritages often intersect, as they do in this fine book. The British Empire and its military institutions are a source of immense inspiration for those of us who have studied them, but they are also a source of moral ambivalence, for all the reasons Jones elucidates. Military services everywhere reflect the societies they defend and protect. Civilization and its functions are human constructions. We must recognize that our deepest imperfections, the same real and fictional motivations listed earlier, are engrained in, and inform our achievements. All so-called empires are houses of cards. Sic transit gloria mundi.
Read review>>
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NAVAL HISTORY BOOKS AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW | |
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Preble Hall Podcasts
Dr. Stephen Phillips interviews author Charles Lachman to discuss his book, Codename Nemo: The Hunt for a Nazi U-Boat and the Elusive Enigma Machine, which tells the story of the US Navy’s capture of the German U-boat U-505 on 4 June 1944.
Listen here>>
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For The Trafalgar Chronicle
Publication Date: FALL 2025
Theme: Naval Leadership in the Georgian Era
For the 2025 edition of The Trafalgar Chronicle, the editors seek carefully researched, scholarly articles on “Naval Leadership in the Georgian Era.” We invite essays that provide examples of exemplary and questionable leadership in the predominant navies of the Georgian maritime era (1714–1837). We are interested to know about unique and far-reaching ways in which naval officers and administrators made crucial decisions and took significant actions affecting their futures, men, fleets, enemies, combat tactics and strategies, ships, policies and regulations, and naval doctrine itself. Additional topics: We also seek general-interest articles with unique perspectives on the maritime and naval history of the Georgian era. We invite biographical portraits, articles about battles at sea, maritime economics, exploration of foreign shores, foreign relations, politics, etc. We also welcome well-documented reports on preservation efforts regarding the artifacts, graves, memorials, and monuments of the Nelson era. Proposal Submission Guidelines: Please submit a proposal/abstract of no more than 500 words and a paragraph about your background (a biographical sketch). Proposals are due by 1 September 2024. Applicants will be notified of acceptance status by 1 October 2024. Submit all proposals and inquiries to tc.editor@1805Club.org.
Detailed author guidelines are available upon request. Article Guidelines: Articles should be 3,000 to 5,000 words long in MSWORD (unprotected) following the New Oxford Style Manual. Please include three to six high-resolution illustrations, each in a separate file (jpeg, pdf, or tiff). Articles are due 1 February 2025, at which point they will be edited and, in some cases, submitted to peer review. Articles will be returned to authors for revisions by 1 April 2025.
Revisions are due by 1 May 2025. Publication will be Fall/Autumn 2025. While we do not pay our contributors, each author will receive a copy of The Trafalgar Chronicle upon publication. Non-members of the 1805 Club will receive a free one-year membership. All authors will also receive a PDF of their published article for their portfolio. Authors retain copyright of their articles. Our Contributors: We welcome articles from 1805 Club members and anyone with an interest in the history of the Georgian Navy and other navies of the period. Our articles have come from writers of varied backgrounds: historians, journalists, university students, military personnel, preservationists, and novelists. Contact tc.editor@1805Club.org for additional information. The Trafalgar Chronicle is the scholarly flagship publication of the 1805 Club, a charity registered in England and Wales (number1202272) with an international membership of scholars and enthusiasts of the Georgian maritime era. The 1805 Club takes its name from the iconic Battle of Trafalgar that gave Nelson his place in history and confirmed the role of the Royal Navy in asserting Britain’s sea power. Seaforth Publishing is our publisher.
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UPCOMING NAVAL & MARITIME HISTORY GATHERINGS | |
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19–21 July 2024: National Maritime Historical Society Annual Meeting, Peekskill, New York
16–19 September 2024: Historic Naval Ship Association (HNSA) Symposium, USS Midway, San Diego
9 November 2024: Steamship Society of America, Queen Mary, Long Beach, CA
27–30 March 2025: Society for Military History (SMH) Annual Meeting, Mobile, AL
9–11 April 2025: Council of American Maritime Museums Annual Meeting, Pensacola, FL
24–28 September 2025: 12th Maritime Heritage Conference, Buffalo, NY
| PREBLE HALL NAVAL HISTORY PODCAST | |
A naval history podcast from Preble Hall – the United States Naval Academy Museum in Annapolis, Maryland. Preble Hall will interview historians, practitioners, military personnel, and other experts on a variety of naval history topics from ancient history to more current events.
Click here for the latest episode: 232: Charles Lachman: Codename Nemo aka U-505>>
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| DRACHINIFEL YOUTUBE CHANNEL | |
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Click here to read the February 2023 edition and archived issues on the IJNH website >>
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