Books
While we cannot take credit for the work outlined below, we are proud of the research created by the graduates of our program. Below is a list of books and monographs produced by alumni since 1981.
Selection Criteria:
(1) Peer-reviewed books and monographs
(2) Published Federal Government Reports
If you are a graduate of the MA Maritime Studies and have published a book (or we’ve missed one of your publications), please feel contact Karen Underwood (underwoodk@ecu.edu) and we will update the list.
Babits, Lawrence E. and Stephanie Gandulla (editors)
2015 The Archaeology of French and Indian War Frontier Forts. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
Babits, Lawrence E., and Joshua Howard
2009 Long, Obstinate, and Bloody: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC.
Babits, Lawrence E., and Hans Van Tilburg (editors)
1998 Maritime Archaeology: A Reader of Substantive and Theoretical Contributions. Springer Press, New York, NY.
Beshears, Jemison, and Greg Martin
1995 Important Custer, Indian War and Western Memorabilia. Butterfield & Butterfield Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers, San Francisco, CA.
Bisbee, Saxon T.
2018 Engines of Rebellion: Confederate Ironclads and Steam Engineering in the American Civil War. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, AL.
Brenckle, Matthew, Lauren McCormack, Sarah Watkins
2012 Men of Iron: USS Constitution’s War of 1812 Crew. USS Constitution Museum, Boston, MA.
Browning, Robert M., Jr.
1996 U.S. Merchant Vessel War Casualties of World War II. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD.
2002 Success Is All That Was Expected: The South Atlantic Blockading Squadron During the Civil War. Brassey’s, Inc. Dulles, VA.
2003 From Cape Charles to Cape Fear: The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron During the Civil War. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, AL.
2004 Forrest: The Confederacy’s Relentless Warrior. Potomac Books, Inc., Washington, DC.
2011 United States Merchant Marine Casualties of World War II. McFarland & Company, Jefferson, NC.
2015 Lincoln’s Trident: The West Gulf Blockading Squadron During the Civil War. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, AL.
Campbell, Peter B. (editor)
2017 The Archaeology of Underwater Caves. Highfield Press, Southampton.
Corbin, Annalies
2000 The Material Culture of Steamboat Passengers: Archaeological Evidence from the Missouri River. Springer, New York, NY.
2006 The Life and Times of the Steamboat Red Cloud, or, How Merchants, Mounties, and the Missouri Transformed the West. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX.
Corbin, Annalies, and Bradley A. Rodgers
2008 The Steamboat Montana and the Opening of the West: History, Excavation, and Architecture. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
Corbin, Annalies, and Matthew Russell (editors)
2010 When the Land Meets the Sea: Historical Archaeology of Tourism in Yellowstone National Park. Springer, New York, NY.
Delgado, James P.
1988 A Symbol of American Ingenuity, Assessing the Significance of USS Monitor: Historical Context Study for the Civil War Ironclad Warship USS Monitor. Prepared for the United States Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Marine and Estuarine Management Division, National Park Service, Washington, DC.
1988 Submerged Cultural Resource Assessment Golden Gate National Recreation Area Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and Point Reyes National Sea Shore. U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Gulf of Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, U.S. Department of Interior, National Park Service, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Submerged Cultural Resources Center. Professional Papers No.18. Santa Fe, NM.
1992 Dauntless St. Roch: The Mounties’ Artic Schooner. Horsdal & Schubart, Victoria, BC.
1996 Ghost Fleet: The Sunken Ships of Bikini Atoll. University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu, HI.
1999 Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage. Checkmark Books, NY.
2000 Native American Shipwrecks. Franklin Watts, New York, NY.
2000 Shipwrecks from the Westward Movement. Franklin Watts, New York, NY.
2001 Lost Warships: An Archaeological Tour of War at Sea. Douglas & McIntyre Press, Vancouver.
2003 Arctic Workhorse: The RCMP Schooner St. Roch. TouchWood Editions, Victoria, BC.
2005 Waterfront: The Illustrated Maritime Story of Greater Vancouver. Stanton Atkins & Dosil, Vancouver, BC.
2009 Adventures of a Sea Hunter: In Search of Famous Shipwrecks. Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, BC.
2009 Gold Rush Port: The Maritime Archaeology of San Francisco’s Waterfront. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.
2009 Khubliai Khan’s Lost Fleet: In Search of a Legendary Armada. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.
2009 Nuclear Dawn: The Atomic Bomb from the Manhattan Project to the Cold War. Osprey Publishing, Oxford, UK.
2012 Misadventures of a Civil War Submarine: Iron, Guns, and Pearls. Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX.
Delgado, James P. (editor)
1997 Encyclopedia of Underwater and Maritime Archaeology. British Museum Press, London, UK.
Delgado, James P., Daniel J. Lenihan, and Larry E. Murphy
1991 The archeology of the atomic bomb: A submerged cultural resources assessment of the Sunken Fleet of Operation Crossroads at Bikini and Kwajalein Atoll Lagoons. Prepared for the Kili/Kikini/Ejit Local Government Council by the Submerged Cultural Resources Unit, National Park Service, Southwest Cultural Resources Center. Professional Papers No.37. Santa Fe, NM.
Delgado, James, Terry Kerby, Hans K. Van Tilburg, Steven Price, Ole Varmer, Maximilian D. Cremer, Russell Matthews
2016 The Lost Submarines of Pearl Harbor: The Rediscovery and Archaeology of Japan’s Top-Secret Midget Submarines of World War II. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX.
Delgado, James, Thomás Mendizábal, H. Hanselmann, Dominique Rissolo
2016 The Maritime Landscape of the Isthmus of Panama. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
Dudley, Wade G.
2003 Splintering the Wooden Wall: The British Blockade of the United States, 1812-1815. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD.
2003 Drake: For God, Queen, and Plunder. Brassey’s, Dulles, VA.
2008 Historic Photos of Winston-Salem. Turner Publishing, Nashville, TN.
2008 Historic Photos of Wilmington. Turner Publishing, Nashville, TN.
2008 Historic Photos of North Carolina. Turner Publishing, Nashville, TN.
Ferrell, James, and Jemison Beshears
2000 Fine Antique Arms, Including Militaria, Western Americana and Gangster Memorabilia. Butterfield & Butterfield Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers, San Francisco, CA.
Fontenoy, Paul E.
1994 The Sloops of the Hudson River: A historical and Design Survey. Mystic Seaport Museum in association with the Hudson River Maritime Museum, Mystic CT.
2006 Aircraft Carriers: An Illustrated History of Their Impact. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA.
2007 Submarines: An Illustrated History of Their Impact. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA.
Fonvielle, Chris E., Jr.
1999 Fort Anderson: Battle for Wilmington. Savas Publishing Company, Mason City, IA.
2001 The Wilmington Campaign: Last Rays of Departing Hope. Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA.
2007 Historic Wilmington and The Lower Cape Fear: An Illustrated History. Historical Publishing Network, San Antonio, TX.
2007 Last Stand at Wilmington: The Battle of Forks Road. Renovah Publishing Company.
2011 Fort Fisher 1865: The Photographs of T.H. O’Sullivan. NC Starburst Press, Carolina Beach, NC.
2014 Faces of Fort Fisher, 1861-1864. NC Starburst Press, Carolina Beach, NC.
2015 To Forge a Thunderbolt: Fort Anderson and the Battle for Wilmington. SlapDash Publishing, Wilmington, NC.
2020 Glory at Wilmington: The Battle of Forks Road. NC Starburst Press, Carolina Beach, NC.
Harris, Lynn B.
2015 Patroons and Periaguas: Enslaved Watermen and Watercraft of the Lowcountry. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC.
Harris, Lynn, B. (editor)
2016 Sea Ports and Sea Power: African Maritime Landscapes Studies. Springer Press, New York, NY.
Hoyt, Joseph, James P. Delgado, Bradley Barr, Bruce Terrell, Valerie Grussing
2014 “Graveyard of the Atlantic”: An Overview of North Carolina’s Maritime Cultural Landscape. Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and National Oceanic Ocean and Atmospheric Administration, Maritime Heritage Program Series: Number 4, Silver Spring, MD.
Jackson, Claude V., III
2008 The Big Book of the Cape Fear River. Dram Tree Books, Wilmington, NC.
Jasper, Joy Waldron, James P. Delgado, Jim Adams.
2001 The USS Arizona: The Ship, the Men, the Pearl Harbor Attack, and the Symbol That Aroused America. Truman Talley Books, New York, NY.
Jensen, John Odin
2019 Stories from the Wreckage: A Great Lakes Maritime History Inspired by Shipwrecks. Wisconsin Historical Society Press, Madison, WI.
Lawrence, Matthew, John Galluzzo, Deborah Marx
2015 Shipwrecks of Stellwagen Bank: Disaster in New England’s National Marine Sanctuary. The History Press, Charleston, SC.
MacKenzie, Morgan
2011 American Lightships: History, Construction, and Archaeology Within the Maritime Cultural Landscape. Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken, Germany.
McAden, John W., Jr., Chris E. Fonvielle, Jr.
2008 Louis Froelich: Arms-Maker to the Confederacy. SlapDash Publishing, LLC, Wilmington, NC.
Mercogliano, Salvatore R.
2017 Fourth Arm of Defense: Sealift and Maritime Logistics in the Vietnam War. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
Merriman, Ann M
2011 Egyptian Watercraft Models from the Predynastic to Third Intermediate Periods. British Archaeological Reports, Oxford.
Mitchell-Cook, Amy
2013 A Sea of Misadventures: Shipwreck and Survival in Early America. University of South Carolina Press, SC.
Moore, R. Scott
2015 The Civil War on the Atlantic Coast, 1861-1865. Center of Military History United States Army Washington, D.C.
Ray, Eric D., Bradford M Jones, Amy Borgens, and James E Bruseth
2017 La Belle: The Archaeology of a Seventeenth-Century Vessel of New World Colonization. Texas A & M University Press, College Station.
Reid, Phillip
2020 The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600-1800. Brill Publishers, Boston, MA.
Richards, Nathan, and Sami Kay Seeb (editors)
2013 The Archaeology of Watercraft Abandonment. Springer, New York, NY.
Rodgers, Bradley A.
1996 Guardian of the Great Lakes: The U.S. Paddle Frigate Michigan. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.
2004 The Archaeologist’s Manual for Conservation: A Guide for Non-Toxic, Minimal Intervention Artifact Stabilization. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, NY.
Russell, Matthew A.,
2004 Comet: Submerged Cultural Resources Site Report, Channel Islands National Park. Submerged Resources Center, Intermountain Region, National Park Service, Santa Fe, NM.
2005 Beached Shipwreck Archeology: Case Studies from Channel Islands National Park. Submerged Resources Center, Intermountain Region, National Park Service, Santa Fe, NM.
Terrell, Bruce G.
2007 Fathoming Our Past: Historical Contexts of the National Marine Sanctuaries. NOAA National Marine Sanctuary Program, Silver Spring, MD.
Terrell, Bruce G., Gordon P Watts, and Timothy J Runyan
2014 The Search for Planter: The Ship That Escaped Charleston and Carried Robert Smalls to Destiny. Maritime Heritage Series Program. No. 1
Thiesen, William H
2006 Industrializing American Shipbuilding: The Transformation of Ship Design and Construction, 1820-1920. Univ. Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Van Tilburg, Hans
2007 Chinese Junks on the Pacific: Views from a Different Deck. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
2010 A Civil War Gunboat in Pacific Waters: Life on Board USS Saginaw. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
Watts, Gordon P,
1982 Investigating the Remains of the U.S.S. Monitor: A Final Report on 1979 Site Testing in the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Coastal Zone Management; N.C. Dept. of Cultural Resources; Harbor Branch Foundation, Washington, D.C.; Raleigh, N.C.; Fort Pierce, FL.
2014 Shipwrecked: Bermuda’s Maritime Heritage. National Museum of Bermuda Press, Hamilton, Bermuda