Historical Monographs

The historical monographs in this series are book-length studies of the history of naval warfare, edited historical documents, conference proceedings, and biographies based wholly or in part on source materials in the Historical Collection of the Naval War College. They are managed by the Maritime History Department in collaboration with the Naval War College Press.

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HM 7: A Bibliography of The Works of Alfred Thayer Mahan

Alfred Thayer Mahan, John B. Hattendorf, and Lynn C. Hattendorf

There is no doubt that Mahan laid the foundation for a theoretical understanding of navies as well as contributed to the rise of the U.S. Navy to great power status. Curiously, however, there has been no complete bibliography of Mahan' s published work. The 100th anniversary of the beginning of his theoretical work offers such an opportunity.
HM 6: Angel On The Yardarm: The Beginnings of Fleet Radar Defense and the Kamikaze Threat

John Monsarrat

My account of the USS Langley in this narrative takes her from her pre-commissioning detail to the completion of her wartime cruise.
HM 5: On His Majesty's Service

Joseph H. Wellings and John B. Hattendorf

Observations of the British Home Fleet from the diary, reports, and letters of Joseph H. Wellings, Assistant U.S. Naval Attaché, London, 1940-41.
HM 4: The Blue Sword: The Naval War College and the American Mission, 1919-1941

Michael Vlahos

From 1919 to 1941, the Navy, indoctrinated at Newport, formed the institutional patterns of kinship between two paradigms: what Frederick Merk called "Manifest Destiny and Mission."
HM 3: Professors of War: The Naval War College and the Development of the Naval Profession

Ronald Spector

This is a study of the role of the Naval War College in the professionalization of the U.S. Navy and the effects of that process upon the shaping of naval policy from the founding of the College in 1884 to its temporary discontinuance in 1917 during World War I.
HM 2: Charleston Blockade: The Journals of John B. Marchand, U.S. Navy 1861-1862

John B. Marchand and Craig Symonds

Students of the American Civil War, whose ranks are legion, have paid vigorous attention to the many facets of the Union blockade of the Southern Confederacy. Questions of its strategic and economic impact are frequently debated, as are the important problems of logistics and diplomacy. Relatively little attention, however, has been paid to the participants themselves. The men who served on the blockading ships of the U.S. Navy performed the most tedious, if not the most perilous, task of the war. This volume is about one of them: Comdr. John Bonnet Marchand, USN.
HM 1: The Writings of Stephen B. Luce

John D. Hayes and John B. Hattendorf

Here is a look at the individual perhaps most important in bridging the gap between the age of sailing ships and that of steam driven, armored battleships. Indeed, Luce not only contributed directly to the naval service but provided a focus, a direction, and a sounding board for the other great naval thinkers of the day-men like Alfred Thayer Mahan.