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What made you want to write Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800? I wanted to combat two assumptions: one, that sailors were not capable of doing mathematics, and two, that math textbooks are not interesting! Before becoming a historian, I...

In a recent talk to a group about my new book, Faces of the Civil War Navies, an audience member approached me with a question shortly before I stepped up to the podium. He politely inquired which aspect of the navy I’d talk about, Brown Water (rivers) or Deep...