2023 Lyman Award Winners

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Maritime and Nautical Archaeology

Winner

Dolores Elkin and Christophe Delaere, eds. Underwater and Coastal Archaeology in Latin America. University of Florida Press, 2023.

Honorable mention

Warren Curtis Riess. Studying the Princess Carolina: Anatomy of the Ship That Held Up Wall Street. Texas A&M University Press, 2023.

Maritime and Naval Biography and Autobiography

Winner

Robert W. Cherny. Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend. University of Illinois Press, 2023.

Honorable mention

Margaret Willson. Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain. Sourcebooks, 2023.

Maritime and Naval Reference Works and Published Primary Sources

Co-Winners

Ryan Tucker Jones & Matt K. Matsuda, eds. The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean, Volume 1, The Pacific Ocean to 1800. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Anne Perez Hattori & Jane Samson, eds. The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean, Volume 2, The Pacific Ocean since 1800. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Honorable Mention

Christine F. Hughes & Charles E. Brodine, Jr., eds. The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History. Volume IV, 1814–1815 (Atlantic, Gulf Coast). Naval History and Heritage Command, 2023.

Maritime and Naval Science, Technology, and Environment

Winner

Fynn Holm, The Gods of the Sea: Whales and Coastal Communities in Northeast Japan, c. 1600–2019. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Honorable Mention

Laura Trethewey, The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World’s Oceans. Harper Wave/Goose Lane Editions, 2023.

North American Maritime History

Winner

Thomas Blake Earle. The Liberty to Take Fish: Atlantic Fisheries and Federal Power in Nineteenth-Century America. Cornell University Press, 2023.

Honorable Mention

Sean M. Kelley, American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644–1865. Yale University Press, 2023.

North American Naval History

Winner

Stan Fisher. Sustaining the Carrier War: The Deployment of U.S. Naval Air Power to the Pacific. Naval Institute Press, 2023.

Honorable Mention

Philip Reid. A Boston Schooner in the Royal Navy, 1768–1772: Commerce and Conflict in Maritime British America. Boydell & Brewer, 2023.

World Maritime History

Winner

Lucia Carminati. Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859–1906. University of California Press, 2023.

World Naval History

Winner

Jon Wise. The Royal Navy and Fishery Protection: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present. Seaforth, 2023.

Honorable Mention

Sara Caputo. Foreign Jack Tars: The British Navy and Transnational Seafarers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Cambridge University Press, 2023.