W. Jeffrey Bolster is a professor of history at the
University of New Hampshire
The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Durham, New Hampshire. It was founded and incorporated in 1866 as a land grant college in Hanover in connection with Dartmouth College, m ...
in the United States, and the author of ''The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail'',
[Bolster, W. Jeffrey. The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.]
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/ref> which won the 2013 Bancroft Prize
The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas.
It was established in 1948, with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, in his memory and that of his brother, ...
in history of the Americas, and the 2013 Albert J. Beveridge Award The Albert J. Beveridge Award is awarded by the American Historical Association (AHA) for the best English-language book on American history (United States, Canada, or Latin America) from 1492 to the present. It was established on a biennial basis ...
. He also wrote ''Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail'' which won the 1997 Wesley Logan Prize of the American Historical Association.
Biography
Bolster received a BA degree from Trinity College (Connecticut), Trinity College in 1976, a MA from Brown University in 1984, and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1992.Official Web Page at University of New Hampshire
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Awards
* Roger Revelle Lecture (2018)
References
American historians
Bancroft Prize winners
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