The Maritime History Channel By The North American Society For Oceanic History

The Maritime History Channel By The North American Society For Oceanic History


Latest Episodes

NASOH #007: Rich Hendren, "History and Archaeology of USS H-1"
June 27, 2020

Rich Hendren is thirty-year veteran of the United States Navy and spent most of his career in the Submarine Service. After retiring from the Navy, he spent the next ten years working in maritime, petroleum, and hydrographic industries. In 2016, he dropped

NASOH #006: Dr. Edward Marolda, "Admirals Under Fire: U.S. Naval Leaders and the Vietnam War."
June 24, 2020

Edward J. Marolda joined the NASOH Video/Podcast to discuss his new book, Admirals Under Fire: U.S. Naval Leaders and the Vietnam War."  That work focuses on five US Navy Admirals - Don Felt, Ulysses Simpson Grant Sharp, Thomas Moorer, Elmo Zumwalt,

NASOH #005: Dr. William Thiesen, "The United States Coast Guard, Prohibition, and the Rum War."
June 21, 2020

Dr. William Thiesen is the Atlantic-area historian for the U.S. Coast Guard and author of Industrializing American Shipbuilding: The Transformation of Ship Design and Construction, 1820–1920 and Cruise of the Dashing Wave: Rounding Cape Horn in 1860 (Univ

NASOH Historian Panel on Matthew Fontaine Maury - To Commemorate or Not? With Dr Penelope Hardy, Ms. Margaret Stack, Dr. Michael Verney and Dr. Jason Smith
June 19, 2020

The controversy surrounding the military naming items after Confederates have come to the forefront following the death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter Movement.  The US Army is examining whether to change the name of ten bases that honor

NASOH #004: Heather Haley, "Unsuitable and Incompatible: Ensign Vernon 'Copy' Berg, Bisexuality & the Cold War U.S. Navy
June 17, 2020

Heather Haley is a doctoral candidate who focuses on twentieth-century U.S. social and military history. Her primary research identifies the ways in which citizenship rights and military service intersected in the Cold War U.S. military. In her dissertati

NASOH #003: Meenu Rabecca, "Between Europe and South East Asia: Dutch Treaty making politics in Cochin (1662-1718)"
June 15, 2020

Meenu Rabecca is a first year PhD student in the Department of History at Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kerala, India. As an ardent researcher and beginner in the Dutch (VOC) history of Malabar and South East Asia, her doctoral research inves

NASOH #002 - Lincoln Paine, author of Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World
June 08, 2020

Lincoln Paine is an accomplished maritime writer, with five books to his credit.  He joined NASOH to discuss his past works, and a recent article in The Argonauta entitled, "The Environmental Turn in Maritime History."   He also discussed a future project

NASOH Podcast Introduction - Dr. Sal Mercogliano
June 05, 2020

The introduction to the North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH) Podcast with its host, Dr. Sal Mercogliano. 

NASOH #001 - Dr. John Beeler: Britain, Spain, the United States and the Cuban Slave Trade During the Am Civil War
June 04, 2020

Dr. John Beeler of the University of Alabama discusses his paper, Britain, Spain, the United States and the Cuban Slave Trade during the American Civil War.  He also discussed his research in Admiral Alexander Milne of the Royal Navy and the field of