"Picaroons and Pacifists: The End of American Privateering, 1812-1856"
By: Josh Smith
This lecture is FREE and open to the public. It will be held in room 103, first floor of the Marine Sciences Building. For directions/campus map, please visit: http://www.averypoint.uconn.edu/about/directions.html
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Southeast Chapter of the UConn Alumni Association.
Josh grew up on Cape Cod and coastal Maine. He holds degrees from the University of St. Andrews, Maine Maritime Academy, East Carolina University, and the University of Maine. He is the author of "Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783 - 1820", which won the John Lyman Award in American Maritime History in 2007. He also edited "Voyages: Documents in American Maritime History, 1492-present", a two-volume sourcebook in maritime history created in conjunction with the National Historical Society. He has also written a small, monograph with a Canadian perspective entitled, "Battle for the Bay: The Naval War of 1812", published by the Gregg Centre fro the Study of War and Society. He is currently writing a monograph on Maine and the War of 1812 entitled, "Yankee Doodle Upset". Smith is an associate professor of Humanities at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, as well as the Interim Director of the American Merchant Marine Museum, both in King's Point, New York.
