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THE FRANK C. MUNSON INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN MARITIME STUDIES
MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM
“The American Maritime People”
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
SUMMER INSTITUTE
2016
Co-Directors
Dr. Glenn S. Gordinier, Albion Historian, Associate Professor, Williams CollegeMystic Seaport Maritime Studies Program
Dr. Eric Paul Roorda, Professor, Bellarmine University
Faculty and Guest SpeakersB.
Dr. Eric Paul Roorda, Professor, Bellarmine University [Co-Director]
Dr. Glenn S. Gordinier, Associate Professor, Williams College-Mystic Seaport
Maritime Studies Program
Dr. Mary K Bercaw Edwards, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut
Dr. W. Jeffrey Bolster, Professor, University of New Hampshire
Dr. James T. Carlton, Professor, Williams College
Dr. John Hattendorf, Professor, Naval War College
Dr. John O. Jensen, Associate Professor, Western Florida University
Dr. Christine Keiner, Associate Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology
Dr. Rod Mather, Professor, University of Rhode Island
Dr. Lisa Norling, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota
Dr. Matthew McKenzie, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut
Dr. Christopher Pastore, Assistant Professor, State University of New York-Albany
Dr. Marcus Rediker, Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Helen Rozwadowski, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut
CLASS MEETINGS: Classroom sessions will take place in the Olin J. Stephens
Room of the Stillman Building or the James T. Carlton Marine Science Center
multi-media classroom. Other sessions will meet at various locations on the
grounds of Mystic Seaport. The field seminar excursions will take place in nearby
Stonington and New London, Connecticut, and Newport, Rhode Island.
READING: The texts for this course take different approaches to research in
Maritime History, featuring the areas of specialization of the faculty who conduct the
seminar sessions.
WEEK I
READINGS:
Mon:
Garrett Hardin, “The Tragedy of the Commons” (Reader)
Carlton, “Blue Immigrants” and “JTMD” (Reader)
Tue:
Gremillion, “A New View of the Ainu” (Reader)
Rollins, “The Kelp Highway” (Reader)
Castro, et al, “The Surfing Chinchorro of Chile” (Reader)
Labaree, et al, America and the Sea, chapters 1-3
Wed:
Maps (Reader)
W & M Quarterly articles (Reader)
Mather article (Reader)
MONDAY, 27 JUNE
9:00 Introduction, Library Orientation, Tour of Mystic Seaport
1:00 The Global Biological Context of Maritime Studies
Carlton
TUESDAY, 28 JUNE
9:00 Ancient American Maritime History
11:00 Vessel Types, Points of Sail, and Other Basics
Afternoon: Participants’ research time
Roorda
Gordinier
WEDNESDAY, 29 JUNE:
9:00 European Reactions to the New World
1:00 Patterns of European Colonization
5:00 Cruise on the Mystic River estuary
Mather
Mather
THURSDAY, 30 JUNE
9:00 Field Seminar in Stonington: Fishing Port Past & Present
Afternoon: Participants’ research time
FRIDAY, 1 JULY
9:00 FORUM
Afternoon: Participants’ research time
WEEK II
READINGS:
Tue:
NEH Summer Scholars
America and the Sea, chapters 4-6
Smith, Gaddis, “The Agricultural Roots of Maritime History,” American
Neptune (Winter 1984): 5-10.
Wed:
Rozwadowski, Fathoming the Ocean
Rozwadowski, “Arthur C. Clarke and the Limitations of the Ocean as a
Frontier.” (Reader)
Rozwadowski, “Oceans: Fusing the History of Science and Technology with
Environmental History.” (Reader)
“Bibliography of Marine Environmental History.” Handout in class
Gilpatric, Guy, The Compleat Goggler excerpt (Reader)
Thu:
Keiner, "How Scientific Does Marine Environmental History Need to Be?"
and “Panamal Canal.” (Reader)
Pastore, Between Land and Sea.
MONDAY, 4 JULY
Independence Day Holiday
TUESDAY, 5 JULY
9:00 Seaports and Sailortowns
Presentation by Captain Josiah Gardner, followed by
NEW LONDON FIELD SEMINAR
Afternoon: Participants’ research time
Gordinier
WEDNESDAY, 6 JULY: AT UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT-AVERY POINT
9:00 Human Exploration of the Deep Sea
1:00 Extremes in Oceanography
THURSDAY, 7 JULY:
9:00 Case Studies: Chesapeake Bay, Panama Canal
1:00 Case Study: Narragansett Bay
FRIDAY, 8 JULY
9:00 FORUM
Afternoon: Participants’ research time
WEEK III
READINGS:
Mon:
America and the Sea, Chapters 7-9.
Tue:
Norling, Captain Ahab Had a Wife
Wed, Thu & Fri:
Bolster, The Mortal Sea.
Bolster, “Putting the Ocean in Atlantic History” (Reader)
Rozwadowski
Rozwadowski
Keiner
Pastore
Pastore and Keiner
Bolster, et al, “Historical Abundance of Cod on the Nova Scotian Shelf” and
Bolster, McKenzie, et al, “The History of Ocean Resources: Modeling Cod
Biomass.” (both in Reader)
McKenzie, “Iconic Fishermen.” (Reader)
McKenzie, “Modernity and MEH….” (Reader)
MONDAY, 11 JULY
9:00 The American Merchant Marine
Afternoon: Participants’ research time
TUESDAY, 12 JULY
9:00 Gender Dynamics in Maritime America
1:00 American Women’s Maritime Experience
Gordinier
Norling
Norling
WEDNESDAY, 13 JULY:
9:00
1:00
5:00
African American Maritime Experience
Bolster
Environmental Historical Research
Bolster
Project O/MAST Long Island Sound field seminar
Hosted by Helen Rozwadowski at UConn-Avery Point
Thursday, 14 July
9:00 Environmental Historical Research (continued)
1:00 Case Study: Cape Cod
FRIDAY, 15 JULY
9:00 FORUM
Afternoon: Participants’ research time
Bolster
McKenzie
Bolster, McKenzie
WEEK IV
READINGS:
Mon:
Jensen and Mather selections TBA (Reader)
Tue:
Jensen and Mather selections TBA (Reader)
Wed:
Bercaw Edwards, "Ships, Whaling, and the Sea." (Reader)
Aguilar, “Basque Whaling in the North Atlantic Ocean.” (Reader)
Marten, “To the Arctic Ocean for Whales.” (Reader)
Whaling articles from the Log of Mystic Seaport. (Reader)
Villiers, “To the Antarctic Ocean for Whales” (Reader)
America and the Sea, Chapter 10-12
Thu & Fri:
Rediker, The Slave Ship
MONDAY, 18 JULY
9:00 America’s Inland Maritime Frontiers
1:00 Cultural Commons: Atlantic Maritime Cultural
Landscapes I
TUESDAY, 19 JULY
9:00 The Modern Commercial Fisheries
1:00 Cultural Commons: Atlantic Maritime Cultural
Landscapes II
WEDNESDAY, 20 JULY
8:30 Whaling (meet aboard Charles W. Morgan)
1:00 Recent Research on Melville
THURSDAY, 21 JULY
9:00 The Slave Trade
1:00 La Amistad
FRIDAY, 22 JULY
9:00 FORUM
Afternoon: Participants’ research time
Jensen
Jensen
Jensen
Jensen
Bercaw Edwards
Bercaw Edwards
Rediker
Rediker
Rediker
WEEK V
READINGS:
Mon & Tue:
America and the Sea, Chapters 13-17.
McPhee, “The Container Ship.” (Reader)
Wallace, “Shipping Out.” (Reader)
Thu:
US Navy documents. (Reader)
MONDAY, 25 JULY
9:00 Passenger Liners
11:00 The Cruise Industry
Afternoon: Participants’ research time
Roorda
Roorda
TUESDAY, 26 JULY
9:00 Containerization
11:00 Democratization of Maritime Recreation
Afternoon: Participants’ research time
Gordinier
Gordinier
WEDNESDAY, 27 JULY
FIELD SEMINAR IN NEWPORT, RI
Visit to Naval War College and walking tour of the city
THURSDAY, 28 JULY
Hattendorf
9:00
1:00
An Overview of Naval History
The US Navy and the Ocean Commons
FRIDAY, 29 JULY
9:00 Final Forum
11:30 Closing Luncheon
Hattendorf
Hattendorf
Summer Scholars
Reading List
Books
Labaree, Hattendorf, et al, America & the Sea (Mystic Seaport Press, 1998)
Bolster, The Mortal Sea (Belknap Press, 2012)
Norling, Captain Ahab Had a Wife (Univ of North Carolina Press, 2000)
Pastore, Between Land and Sea (Harvard U. Press, 2014)
Rediker, The Slave Ship (Viking, 2012)
Rozwadowski, Fathoming the Ocean (Harvard U. Press, 2004)
Reader Contents
Week I:
 Hardin, Garrett, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” Science (13 Dec 1968).
 Carlton, “ Blue Immigrants” and “JTMD,” both in Roorda, ed., The Ocean
Reader: History, Politics, Culture (Duke U. Press, forthcoming).
 Gremillion, “A New View of the Ainu”; Rollins, “The Kelp Highway”, Castro, et
al, “The Surfing Chinchorro of Chile,” all in Roorda, ed., The Ocean Reader.
 W & M Quarterly articles: Johnson and Webb, vol 43, #3 (July 1986): 40859; Steele, vol 46, #2 (Aprl 1989): 304-324.
 Mather chapter on the Royal Navy
 Webb, Stephen Saunders, “The Governors General”
Week II:
 Smith, Gaddis, “The Agricultural Roots of Maritime History,” American
Neptune (Winter 1984): 5-10.
 Helen M. Rozwadowski, “Arthur C. Clarke and the Limitations of the
Ocean as a Frontier,” Environmental History, 17 (3)(2012): 578-602.
 Rozwadowski, Helen, “Oceans: Fusing the History of Science and
Technology with Environmental History,” in Douglas Cazaux Sackman, A
Companion to American Environmental History (Wiley Blackwell, 2010):
442-461.
 “Bibliography of Marine Environmental History” – handout in class
 Gilpatric, Guy, “The Compleat Goggler,” in Roorda, ed., The Ocean Reader.
 Keiner, "How Scientific Does Marine Environmental History Need to Be?"
 Keiner, “Panamal Canal”

Pastore, “Unruly Environments”
Week III:
 Bolster, “Putting the Ocean in Atlantic History: Maritime Communities and
Marine Ecology in the Northwest Atlantic, 1500-1800,” American Historical
Review 113 (Feb, 2008): 19-47.
 Rosenberg, Bolster, Alexander, Leavenworth, Cooper, and McKenzie, “The
History of Ocean Resources: Modeling Cod Biomass Using Historical
Records,” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3 (March, 2005): 84-90.
 Bolster, Alexander, and Leavenworth, “The Historical Abundance of Cod on
the Nova Scotian Shelf,” in Shifting Baselines: The Past and Future of
Ocean Fisheries, eds. Jackson, Alexander, and Sala (Island Press, 2011):
79-114, and 233-243.
 McKenzie, Matthew, “Iconic Fishermen...”
 McKenzie, Matthew, “Modernity and MEH….”
Week IV:
 Jensen, John, Concluding Chapter, Fishing Out of Stonington.
 Jensen and Hartmeyer, A Cultural Landscape Approach (CLA) Review and
Sourcebook for Wisconsin Mid-Lake Michigan Maritime Heritage Trail
Region.” http://www.appliedhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/MidLake-Michigan-Cultural-Landscape-Source-Book.pdf
http://www.appliedhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Ocean-SAMPFinal-Technical-Report-for-Cultural-Resources.pdf
 Mather and Jensen, Investigations into Block Island’s Submerged Cultural
Sites and Landscapes for the Rhode Island Ocean Special Area
Management Plan 2010: 38-55
 Articles on whaling: Log of Mystic Seaport (May, 1975): 8-28; (January,
1978): 119-122.
 Bercaw Edwards, Mary K, "Ships, Whaling, and the Sea," in A Companion
to Melville, ed. Wyn Kelley (London: Blackwell Publishing, 2006).
 Aguilar, Alex. “Old Basque Whaling in the North Atlantic Ocean”; Marten,
F. “To the Arctic Ocean for Whales”; and Villiers, Alan, “To the Antarctic
Ocean for Whales,” all in Roorda, ed., The Ocean Reader.
Week V:
 McPhee, John, “The Container Ship,” excerpt from Looking for a Ship, in
Roorda, ed., The Ocean Reader.
 Wallace, David Foster, “Shipping Out,” Harper’s (January 1996): 33-56.
 US Navy, Forward, Engaged, Ready: A Cooperative Strategy for the 21st
Century (March 2015). (Reader)
 US Navy, A Design for Maintaining Maritime Superiority (January 2016).
(Reader)
 US Navy, “Energy, Environment and Climate Change” web page,
http://greenfleet.dodlive.mil/environment