John Lyman Book Awards

The John Lyman Book Awards are given annually by the North American Society for Oceanic History to recognise excellence in published books making a major contribution to the study and understanding of maritime and naval history. They are named after Professor John Lyman of the University of North Carolina.

History

The Lyman Book Awards were inaugurated in 1995 and have honored more than 240 books from more than 80 publishers.
As of 2023, the Committee makes awards in the following eight categories:

Maritime and Nautical Archaeology
Maritime and Naval Biography and Autobiography
Maritime and Naval Reference Works and Published Primary Sources
Maritime and Naval Science and Technology
North American Maritime History
North American Naval History
World Maritime History
World Naval History

The categories of North American Maritime and North American Naval History were formerly divided among Canadian naval and maritime history, U.S. naval history, and U.S. maritime history. World Maritime History and World Naval History were formerly one category.

2023 Winner	Dolores Elkin and Christophe Delaere, eds.	Underwater and Coastal Archaeology in Latin America	University of Florida Press
2023 Hon. Mention	Warren Curtis Riess	Studying the Princess Carolina: Anatomy of the Ship That Held Up Wall Street	Texas A&M University Press
2023	Jane Webster	Materializing the Middle Passage: A Historical Archaeology of British Slave Shipping, 1680–1807	Oxford University Press

Maritime and Naval Biography and Autobiography
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