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Craig Lee Symonds (born 31 December 1946, in
Long Beach, California ) was the Distinguished Visiting
Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History for the academic years 2017–2020 at the U.S.
Naval War College in
Newport, Rhode Island . He is also Professor Emeritus at the
U. S. Naval Academy , where he served as chairman of the history department. He is a distinguished historian of the American Civil War and maritime history. His book Lincoln and His Admirals received the
Lincoln Prize . His book
Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings was the 2015 recipient of the
Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature .
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Early life and education
The son of Lee and Virginia Symonds, Craig Symonds attended Anaheim High School then
University of California, Los Angeles , where he earned his
Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967. Going on to graduate work, he obtained his
M.A. in history at the
University of Florida in 1969 with a thesis on "The defense of the southwestern frontier, 1784–1794: a study in governmental relations." He married Marylou Hayden on 17 January 1969 and the couple had one son. In 1971, Symonds joined the
United States Naval Reserve , serving for three years until 1974 and raising to the grade of
Lieutenant . While in the Navy, he served on the staff and faculty of the
Naval War College . On his release from active duty, he returned to his graduate studies in history at the
University of Florida , where he obtained his
Ph.D. in 1976 under the tutelage of Professor
John K. Mahon with a dissertation on "Navalists and antinavalists: the naval policy debate in the United States, 1785–1827."
Academic career
In 1976, the
United States Naval Academy in
Annapolis, Maryland appointed Symonds
assistant professor of history to succeed Professor
E. B. Potter as a specialist in
Naval history . He was subsequently promoted to
associate professor in 1980 and
professor of history in 1985. He served as chairman of the history department in 1988–1992 and appointed professor emeritus on his retirement in 2005.
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[3] In 1994–1995, he was
visiting lecturer at
Britannia Royal Naval College in
Dartmouth, England . He returned to teach at the Naval Academy as The Class of 1957 Distinguished Professor of American Naval Heritage for 2011–12. In 2017, he was appointed to a two-year term as the
Ernest J. King Distinguished Visiting Professor of Maritime History at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.
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Awards
Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature in 2015 for
Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings .
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In 2014, The
Naval Historical Foundation awarded him the
Commodore Dudley W. Knox Naval History Lifetime Achievement Award .
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The Abraham Lincoln Book Award, 2010
The
Lincoln Prize , 2009 (co-winner with James M. McPherson) for Lincoln and His Admirals .
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The Barondess Prize , 2009
The Daniel and Marilyn Laney Prize , 2009
The Nevins-Freeman Prize , 2009
The
Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History , 2006
Anne Arundel County Award for Literary Arts, 2006
John Lyman Book Awards , 1995, 1999, 2009
USNA Research Excellence Award, 1998
USNA Teaching Excellence Award, 1988
Navy Superior Civilian Service Award , 1994, 1998, 2005, 2020
Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award , 1989
History Book Club Author, 1983, 1986, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2010
Military Book Club Author, 1983, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2005
Book-of-the-Month Club Author, 1983, 1986, 1992, 2001, 2005
Published works
Charleston Blockade: The Journals of John B. Marchand, USN , edited by Craig Symonds. (Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 1976.
Navalists and Antinavalists: The Naval Policy Debate in the United States, 1785–1827 . (University of Delaware Press, 1980).
New Aspects of Naval History, edited by Craig Symonds. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1981).
A Battlefield Atlas of the
Civil War . (Annapolis, MD: Nautical and Aviation Press, 1983).
ISBN
978-0933852495
William H. Parker (1985). Craig Symonds (ed.).
Recollections of a Naval Officer, 1841–1865 . Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press.
ISBN
978-0-87021-533-9 .
A Battlefield Atlas of the
American Revolution . (Annapolis, MD: Nautical and Aviation Press, 1986).
Alvah F. Hunter (1987). Craig Symonds (ed.).
A Year on a Monitor . Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press.
ISBN
978-0-87249-761-0 . (reprint 1991)
Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography . New York: Norton. 1992.
ISBN
978-0-393-31130-3 .
Gettysburg: A Battlefield Atlas, by Craig Symonds with William J. Clipson. (Annapolis, MD: Nautical and Aviation, 1992).
The Naval Institute Historical Atlas of the U.S. Navy . Illustrator William J. Clipson. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. 1995.
ISBN
978-1-55750-984-0 . {{
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Stonewall of the West:
Patrick Cleburne and the Civil War . (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1997).
Confederate Admiral: The Life and Wars of
Franklin Buchanan . (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1999).
ISBN
978-1591148463
American Heritage History of the Battle of Gettysburg . New York: HarperCollins. 2001.
ISBN
978-0-06-054933-6 .
New Interpretations in Naval History: Selected Papers from the Fourteenth Naval History Symposium, Held at Annapolis, Maryland, 23–25 September 1999, Naval Institute Press (Annapolis, MD), 2001.
Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles That Shaped American History . New York: Oxford University Press. 2005.
ISBN
978-0-19-531211-9 .
Lincoln and his Admirals . New York: Oxford University Press. 2008.
ISBN
978-0-19-531022-1 .
The Battle of Midway . New York: Oxford University Press. 2011.
ISBN
978-0-19-539793-2 .
The Civil War at Sea . New York: Oxford University Press. 2012.
ISBN
978-0199931682 .
Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings . Oxford University Press. 2014.
ISBN
978-0199986118 .
World War Two at Sea: A Global History . Oxford University Press. 2018.
ISBN
978-0190243678 .
Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay . Oxford University Press. 2022.
ISBN
978-0190062361 .
References
External links
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