Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology

摘要

This fall, the Program in Maritime Studies at East Carolina University will begin its 25th year of instruction with a new class of graduate students. Over the years, faculty and students have pursued many premier projects around the world, including investigations of USS Monitor, CSS Alabama, USS Tecumseh, USS Arizona, Maple Leaf, the Beaufort Inlet wreck (thought to be Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge, though this is highly debated), 16th-century sites in Bermuda and Florida, and the Yorktown Shipwreck Archaeological Project. Founded in 1981 by historian Dr. William Still Jr. and Gordon Watts, then the head of the Underwater Archaeological Unit of the NC Division of Cultural Resources, the Program in Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology has produced some of this country's leading maritime historians and archaeologists. In this article, Dr. Still describes the beginnings of the program that has since gained an international reputation in the field of maritime heritage, both in history and archaeology.