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RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

Books

Allison, Robert J.

The Crescent Obscured: The United States and
the Muslim World, 1776-1815.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

De Conde, Alexander.

The Quasi-Woar: The Politics and Diplomacy of
the Undeclared War with France 1797-1801.
New York: Scribner, 1966.

Dudley, William S. and Michael J. Crawford,
ed. Early Republic and the Sea:

Essays on the Naval and Maritime History of
the Early United States.

Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 2001,

Fowler, William M.

Jack Tars and Commodores:
The American Navy, 1783-1815.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.

Gilje, Paul.

Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime
Culture in the Age of Revolution.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
2004,

Hickey, Donald R.

Don't Give Up the Ship! Myths of the War
of 1812,

Urbana: University of lllinois Press, 2006,

Lambert, Frank.

The Barbary Wars: American Independence
in the Atlantic World.

New York: Hill and Wang, 2005.

Leiner, Frederick C.

Millions for Defense:

The Subscription Warships of 1798.
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1999.

Palmer, Michael A. Stoddert’s War:
Naval Operations during the Quasi-War
with France, 17798-1801.

Columbia: University of South Carolina
Press, 2000.

Zacks, Richard.

The Pirate Coast:

Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines,
and the Secret Mission of 1805.

New York: Hyperion, 20086.

Periodicals

Cobblestone
www.cobblestonepub.com/issue/
COB9709.html

particularly the issue on USS Constitution
(1997), the War of 1812 (1988), and Seafaring
Life (1988)

Naval History
www.ushi.org /navalhistory/navalhistory.
html

Sea History

www.seahistory.org

quarterly magazine from the National
Maritime Historical Society with articles
on general maritime history, literature,
art, and the “Sea History for Kids” feature
(www.seahistory.org /html/
seahistoryforkids.htm)

Websites

Birth of the US Navy from The Mariners’
Museum:

www.mariner.org /usnavy

with historical background, documents, time-
line, and bibliography through the War of 1812

USS Constitution Museum:
www.ussconstitutionmuseum.org/learning/
teacher_resources.htm

including their online interdisciplinary
curriculum “All Hands On Deck” at
www.allhandsondeck.org

The Naval Historical Center:
www.history.navy.mil

Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on
American Expansion: 1820-1890
(leweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award99/
mymhihtml/mymhihome.html)