Table of Contents
Preface xiii
1 Postbellum 1
Inland Navigation 2
Alfred Guthrie, "Eighth Supervising District" (1865) 3
Currier and Ives, "Ol' Man River" (1863-1884) 11
Anonymous, "Proposed Ship Canal at Sturgeon Bay" (1870) 13
Edward King, "Down the Mississippi" (1874) 16
Free Ships and Protectionism 23
John Codman, "The Injustice of Granting Subsidies" (1871) 23
F.B. Norton, "Iron Shipbuilding" (1872) 26
John Roach, "Shall America Build Ships?" (1881) 31
West Coast Racial Concerns 36
William G. Morris, "The Navy Shells an Alaskan Village" (1882) 37
Congress, "Chinese Exclusion Act" (1882) 41
Michael A. Healy, "Whisky Traffic" (1884) 46
Maritime Disaster and Rescue 49
Sumner Kimball, "Manful Efforts" (1877) 50
S.C. Brock, "Wreck of the Steamer Metropolis" (1878) 53
Paine's Celery Compound, "Gallant Ida Lewis" (1893) 59
Fishing Woes and Worries 62
James Black Groome, "Oyster Troubles" (1874) 63
Various, "Fortune Bay Outrage" (1878) 68
David Starr Jordan, "Chinese Fishermen" (1887) 76
Maritime Labor Conditions 85
James H. Williams, "The Crimping System" (1895) 86
International Seamen's Union, "The Red Record" (1898) 90
William D. Sewall, "The Decadence of Our Merchant Marine" (1905) 95
Oswald Christensen, "Discharge book No. 80865" (1912) 101
Navalism and Empire 104
Alfred Thayer Mahan, "The United States Looking Outward" (1890) 105
Navy Department, "Communications and the Battle of Manila Bay" (1898) 109
Theodore Roosevelt, "Why the Nation Needs an Effective Navy" (1908) 115
Lucia Ames Mead, "What Our Navy Costs Us" (1909) 121
Progressive at Sea 129
Chicago Vice Commission, "Lake Steamers" (1910) 130
Anna Herkner, "Steerage Women"(1911) 133
Lewis Hine, "Canning Factories" (1909-1911) 138
2 War, Depression, War Again 141
The Great War 142
William Jennings Bryan, "Neutral Shipping Rights" (1907) 143
Woodrow Wilson, "The Sussex Sinking" (1916) 148
Floyd P. Gibbons, "How the Laconia Sank" (1917) 154
Sea and Sand 160
Jack London, "Surfing: A Royal Sport" (1907) 161
Van Campen Heilner, "Surf Fishing" (1920) 171
Various, "Bathing Beauties" (1923) 177
Merchant Marine Policy 179
Robert Dollar, "A National Shipping Policy" (1915) 179
Wesley L. Jones, "American Ships for Our American Trade" (1920) 185
New York American, "Keep the Dollar at Home" (1927) 191
Merchant Marine Commission, "The Importance of Shipping" (1937) 193
Interwar Issues of Race and Labor 202
Marcus Garvey, "The Black Star Line" (1920) 203
San Francisco Daily News, "Trouble at the Embarcadero" (1934) 208
Joseph B. Weaver, "The Problem of Seagoing Labor" (1937) 213
Joe Curran, "Our Union Can Be Strong" (1937) 219
Sea Stories 223
Agnes Shipper, "Stewardess on the President Arthur" (1925) 224
O'Brien, "Interview with a Mariner" (1939) 226
Joseph Captiva, "Portuguese Fisherman" (1939) 229
War on the Horizon 236
Cordell Hull, "Panay Telegrams" (1937) 236
Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Rattlesnakes of the Atlantic" (1941) 240
Gerald P. Nye, "Arming Merchant Ships" (1941) 248
Two-Ocean War 252
Phil Richards and John J. Branigan, "Prepare Yourself" (1942) 253
Joseph Matte III, "Action at ICOMP" (1942) 259
George Gay, "Torpedo Squadron Eight" (1942) 265
Office of War Information, "Rosie the Riveter" (1943) 273
3 Cold War and Beyond 277
Postwar Merchant Marine 278
Frazer A. Bailey, "The Marshall Plan and the Merchant Marine" (1948) 279
J. Robert Lunney, "Korean Refugees" (1950) 284
Paul Hall, "Big Labor Comes to the Fourth Coast" (1959) 288
Jesse Calhoon, "Foreign Flag Rustbuckets" (1977) 294
The Navy's Cold War 300
John F. Kennedy, "Cuba Quarantined" (1962) 301
Lyndon B. Johnson, "Tonkin Gulf Speech" (1964) 307
Ronald Reagan, "600-Ship Fleet" (1982) 310
Sea Change in Society 316
Bob Thomas, "Biloxi Beach Wade-In" (1960) 317
Polaris Action, "All Aboard Ethan Allen" (1960) 322
Elmo Zumwalt Jr., "Z-Gram #66: Equal Opportunity" (1970) 326
Tailhook and Beyond 331
Inspector General's Office, "Victim 50" (1993) 331
James Webb, "Defending the Navy's Culture" (1996) 335
Patricia Schroeder, "Too Many Captains" (1996) 344
The Sea Around Us 347
John F. Kennedy, "National Effort in Oceanography" (1961) 348
Stratton Commission, "Our Stake in the Uses of the Sea" (1969) 354
Daniel L. Muir, "Defending American Fisheries" (1977) 359
Melvin A. Fisher, "Wreck of the Atocha" (1988) 364
Ocean Liners to Cruise Ships 370
American Export Lines, "Brings American Living Standards to Sea" (1950) 371
United States Lines, "The End of an Era" (1969) 374
Al Levett, "Cruise Ship Garbage" (1991) 380
Maritime Environmentalism in the 1990s 385
Elenore McMullen, "Subsistence Living After the Exxon Valdez" (1993) 386
Keith Johnson, "Makah Whaling" (1998) 391
Bruce Babbitt, "Counterattack Against the Pathogens of Global Commerce" (1999) 400
The War on Terror 406
Nathan Bruckenthal, "Operation Iraqi Freedom" (2003) 406
Tom Ridge, "Port Security" (2004) 413
Scott McClellan, "Dubai Ports Press Briefing" (2006) 420
