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Donald A. Yerxa
Conference Co-Director
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Donald A. Yerxa is assistant director of
the Historical Society  and
editor of its bulletin, Historically Speaking. He is also professor of history at
Eastern
Nazarene College. He was trained as a naval historian, receiving his
M.A. and Ph.D.
from the University of Maine, where he studied under two of the leading
naval
historians of the 20th century, Robert
Greenlaugh Albion and Clark
Reynolds. He has written two books: The Burning of Falmouth, 1775 (Maine Historical Society, 1975) and Admirals
and Empire: The United States Navy and the Caribbean, 1898-1945 (University of South Carolina Press,
1991). He has
also done work in the history of science and religion, co-authoring Species
of Origins: America’s Search for a Creation Story (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002). He is
co-editor
of a new University of South Carolina Press book series, Historians
in
Conversation: Understanding the Past.
Yerxa is a contributing editor of Books & Culture and serves on the editorial board of New
Global
Studies. He is a
resident member
of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. His articles and interviews
have
appeared in a wide variety of publications including Military
Affairs, the Naval
War College Review, Mariner’s
Mirror, Fides et
Historia, Books
& Culture, Science
& Spirit, and Historically
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For more information, contact: Donald
Yerxa, yerxad@bu.edu
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