W. Jeffrey Bolster Explained

W. Jeffrey Bolster is a professor of history at the University of New Hampshire in the United States, and the author of The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail,^[1] which won the 2013 Bancroft Prize in history of the Americas,^[2] and the 2013 Albert J. Beveridge Award. He also wrote Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail^[3] which won the 1997 Wesley Logan Prize of the American Historical Association.

Biography

Bolster received a BA degree from Trinity College in 1976, a MA from Brown University in 1984, and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1992.^[4]

Awards

• Roger Revelle Lecture (2018)

Notes and References

1. Bolster, W. Jeffrey. The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. WorldCat item record
2. Columbia University Library,2013 Bancroft Winners Announced. http://library.columbia.edu/news/libraries/2013/2013-3-18_2013_Bancroft_Winners_Announced.html accessed 27 June 2013
3. Bolster, W. Jeffrey. Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail, published in Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1997, WorldCat item record
4. https://cola.unh.edu/faculty-member/jeffrey-bolster Official Web Page at University of New Hampshire