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Purpose: Become acquainted with females in naval history with emphasis on the United States Navy and Marine Corps. Who was Artemisia of Caria and why is she important to women’s naval history? What is the history of females in the US naval services? Who was Grace Hopper? What important role does she play in the US Navy? How would you describe the leadership roles these individuals played in the history of the military?
This section of the course is divided into three components. Part 1. Ancient female mariner, Artemisia I of Caria. Part 2. Organization of women’s units in the US Navy and US Marine Corps. Part 3. Admiral Grace Hopper.
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Part 1: Artemisia I of Caria, Ancient Naval Warrior. ADM Michele Howard, Modern Naval Warrior.
(1) "Artemisia," Encyclopedia of Iranica.
(2) Background review "Battle of Salamis," The Molossian Naval Academy.
(3) Mark Cartwright, "Trireme" Ancient History Encyclopedia
(4) N.S. Gill, "Herodotus Passages on Artemisia of Halicarnassus"
(5) Lucia Graves. "For Michelle Howard, Saving Captain Phillips Is Her Least Impressive Accomplishment,"
The National Journal. Available in ProQuest Central.
(6) Background review: "USS Bainbridge DDG 96" and "Arleigh Burke Class (Aegis) Destroyer."
Part 2: U.S. Navy and Marines
(7) Check out this website: Naval History & Heritage Command, "Women in the Navy."
Read "Women in the U.S. Navy: Historic Documents History of Women on Navy Ships in the Nineteenth Century."
(8) Susan S. Godson. Serving Proudly, A History of Women in the US Navy-(the 18th and 19th centuries). pp. 1-31
(9) Jeanne M. Holm, Navy Women's Reserve: WAVES in Defense of a Nation: Service-women in World War II. pp. 57-75
(10) "The Waves Come In Women's Reserve Organized to Relieve Men for Sea Duty" and "Women in the Navy: Waves are Third Group," Bureau of Naval Personnel no. 307, October 1942 pp. 5-10.
(11) Jean Ebbert and Marie-Beth Hall. The first, the few, the forgotten Navy and Marine Corps women in World War 1, pp. 1-15
Part 3: Spotlight: Admiral Grace Hopper, USN
(12) Allison McCann online video to be shown in class "The Queen of Code." Read the NPR introduction "Grace Hopper, 'the Queen of Code,' would have hated that title," March 07, 2015 NPR.
(13) Kathleen Broome Williams. Grace Hopper, Admiral of the Cyber Sea. Chapter 3: "Women enter the world of technology the UNIVAC years 1949-1967."
Supplemental Materials
Kurt Beyer, Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009.
C. Peter Chen, “WAVES Women in the WW II US Navy.” World War II Data Base.
David Cordingly. Women Sailors and Sailors' Women: An Untold Maritime History. Random House, 2001.
Margaret S. Creighton. Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920 (Gender Relations in the American Experience) Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Jean Ebbert. and Marie-Beth Hall. Crossed Currents: Navy Women from WWI to Tailhook [Revised]. Washington, D.C: Brassey's. (1999).
Susan H. Godson. Serving Proudly: A history of Women in the U.S. Navy. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. 2001.
Paul Greengrass, Director. Captain Phillips, Columbia Pictures. (2013).