Canadian Naval & Maritime History
No award
US Maritime History
Winner
Gregg Andrews
Shantyboats and Roustabouts: The River Poor of St. Louis 1875-1930
Louisiana State University Press
Honorable Mention
Jane Hooper
Yankees in the Indian Ocean: American Commerce and Whaling, 1786-1860
Ohio University Press
Joshua M. Smith
Making Maine: Statehood and the War of 1812
University of Massachusetts Press
US Naval History
Winner
Thomas Sheppard
Commanding Petty Despots: The American Navy in the New Republic
Naval Institute Press
Honorable Mention
Trent Hone
Mastering the Art of Command: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and Victory in the Pacific
Naval Institute Press
Michael A. Verney
A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic
University of Chicago Press
World Naval & Maritime History
Winner
Ryan Tucker Jones
Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling
University of Chicago Press
Honorable Mention
Simcha Jacobovici & Sean Kingsley
Enslaved: The Sunken History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Pegasus Books
Naval & Maritime Biography & Autobiography
Honorable Mention
Ranulph Fiennes
Shackleton: The Biography
Pegasus Books
Marc Wortman
Admiral Hyman Rickover: Engineer of Power
Yale University Press
Naval & Maritime Science & Technology
Winner
Graham Bell
Full Fathom 5000: The Expedition of HMS Challenger and the Strange Animals It Found in the Deep Sea
Oxford University Press
Honorable Mention
Martin V. Melosi
Water in North American Environmental History
Routledge
Naval & Maritime Reference Works
Winner
Robert G. Allan, with Peter A. Robson
Workboats for the World: The Robert Allan Story
Harbour Publishing.
Honorable Mention
Russell A. Potter, Regina Koellner, Peter Carney, & Mary Williamson, (eds.)
May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition
McGill-Queen’s University Press.