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October 2015
English-Speaking Union of the United States, Nashville, TN
Andy will be speaking on The Art of David Roberts to the English-Speaking Union of the United States, Nashville Branch. Watch for more details.
Find out more »Nashville Tennessee State Museum
I'll be talking to staff of Nashville's Tennessee State Museum, and others, about USS Tennessee's short and fascinating service life. Commissioned in 1906 as the first of a new class of armored cruisers, she was destroyed by high seas off Santo Domingo in the summer of 1916 under her new name, USS Memphis, just two years after her perfect execution of the US Navy's little known first mission of World War I. Memphis' wreck lies off the Dominican Republic's capital…
Find out more »November 2015
Barnes and Noble Book Signing
Join me for a book signing at Barnes and Noble in Berwyn, PA, Sunday, November 22nd.
Find out more »December 2015
National Archives
Join Andy at the noon lecture series at the National Archives' McGowan Theater for a discussion of Embassy to the Eastern Courts: America's Secret First Pivot Towards Asia 1832-37
Find out more »January 2016
Library of Congress
Join Andy for a book discussion of Embassy to the Eastern Courts: America’s Secret First Pivot Towards Asia 1832-37 at the Library of Congress Pickford Theater.
Find out more »National Museum of the U.S. Navy Book Talk
Join me for an illustrated lecture on Embassy to the Eastern Courts, America's Secret First Pivot Towards Asia, 1832-1837 at the National Museum of the U.S. Navy on Thursday, January 21st.
Find out more »February 2016
Seabourn Cruise: Thailand and Vietnam
Andy will be a Destination Conversationalist on Seabourn Sojourn's 14 day Singapore to Hong Kong trip to Thailand and Vietnam. Proposed conversations include: Singapore in Peace and War The stunning failure of the defenses of “Fortress Singapore” during the first months of World War II in the Pacific signaled the collapse of the allied position in Indochina and the Malay Peninsula. It also seemingly locked into place Tokyo’s “Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere,” a resource-rich empire spanning East Asia and the…
Find out more »March 2016
Seabourn Cruise: China, Japan, Korea
Andy will be a Special Interest Conversationalist for Seabourn Sojourn's three week trip to China, Japan and Korea. Proposed conversations include: The Ocean Cruises of Admiral Zheng He and China's Navy Today Zheng He's seven cruises at the head of enormous Chinese treasure and tribute fleets to East Africa, the Red Sea, and the Persian Gulf during the early years of the Ming Dynasty are a brilliant, little-known highlight of the maritime history of Asia. Modern China's recent turn toward the sea…
Find out more »April 2016
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Colloquium Lecture
Join me at an illustrated talk on Adak: The Rescue of Alfa Foxtrot 586 at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Friday, April 15th, 2016.
Find out more »June 2016
Smithsonian Associates
Rounding the Horn: How Rum Fueled a Seafaring Age From the 16th to early 20th centuries, the perilous route around South America’s Cape Horn was the way that explorers and mariners sailed and steamed between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as they sought everything from fame and riches to whale oil and gold. This age of exploration and empire was financed by trade in gold, silver, slaves, cotton, tea, and opium. Equally important was sugar, first a medicine, next a condiment…
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