In order to encourage quality in the field of maritime history, NASOH presents the John Lyman Books Awards to authors and editors who books contribute significantly to the understanding of the maritime and naval history of North America, its rivers and lakes and adjoining oceans. Awards are given in the following six categories: Canadian naval and maritime history, U.S. naval history, U.S. maritime history, science and technology, reference works and published primary sources, and biography and autobiography. Books published during the previous year or bearing a copyright date of the previous year qualify for consideration. Named after the late Professor John Lyman of the University of North Carolina, the awards are a highlight of the annual meeting.
2014 Lyman Book Award Winners
Canadian Naval and Maritime History
Winner
John English, Ice and Water: Politics, Peoples, and the Arctic Council (London: Allen Lane, 2013).
US Naval History
Winner
Thomas Wildenberg, Billy Mitchell's War with the Navy: The Interwar Rivalry Over Air Power (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2014).
Honorable Mention
Matthew Taylor Rafferty, The Republic Afloat: Law, Honor, and Citizenship in Maritime America (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2013).
US Maritime History
Winner
David Igler, The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
Honorable Mention
Jennifer Schell, "A Bold and Hardy Race of Men": The Lives and Literature of American Whalemen (Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013).
Honorable Mention
Denver Brunsman, The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013).
Naval and Maritime Science and Technology
Winner
Kurkpatrick Dorsey, Whales and Nations: Environmental Dipolomacy on the High Seas (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013).
Naval and Maritime Biography and Autobiography
Honorable Mention
Geoffrey L. Rossano, ed., Hero of the Angry Sky: The World War I Diary and Letters of David S. Ingalls, America's First Naval Ace (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013).
Naval and Maritime Reference Works and Published Primary Sources
Honorable Mention
John A. Wolter, David A. Ranzan, and John J. McDonough, eds., With Commodore Perry to Japan: The Journal of William Speiden Jr., 1852-1855 (Annapolis: Naval Instutite Press, 2013).
For a complete list of past Lyman Award Winners, please download the file below.
