Robert M. Browning Jr. is the chief historian for the U.S. Coast Guard and the author of nearly 50 articles relating to the Coast Guard and U.S. naval and maritime history and four books including Forrest: The Confederacy’s Relentless Warrior (Potomac Books, 2004). His latest work, Lincoln’s Trident: The West Gulf Blockading Squadron During the Civil War, is forthcoming from the University of Alabama Press.
Howard J. Fuller is the senior lecturer of war studies at the University of Wolverhampton (U.K.) and the author of Clad in Iron: The American Civil War and the Challenge of British Naval Power (Greenwood Press, 2007, reprinted in 2010 by the Naval Institute Press). He also wrote Empire, Technology and Seapower: Royal Navy Crisis in the Age of Palmerston (Routledge, 2013) and is completing a collection of essays, The Real Pax Britannica: The Royal Navy Deterred and the Decline of Gunboat Diplomacy, for the Naval Institute Press.
Edward J. Marolda, former senior historian of the Navy, has written or edited 12 books on the modern history of the Navy, including By Sea, Air, and Land: An Illustrated History of the U.S. Navy and the War in Southeast Asia (Naval Historical Center, 1994) and Ready Sea Power: An Illustrated History of the U.S. Seventh Fleet (Military Bookshop, 2012). He is currently coediting a series entitled The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War and in 2009 authored the first booklet, The Approaching Storm: Conflict in Asia, 1945–1965.
Paul Stillwell, former editor-in-chief of Naval History, has written extensively for the Naval Institute. He is the author, editor, or collaborator on 12 books of naval history, including Submarine Stories: Recollections from the Diesel Boats (2013) and The Golden Thirteen: Recollections of the First Black Naval Officers (2003), both published by the Naval Institute Press.
Midshipman 1/C Michael Tesluk entered the U.S. Naval Academy with the class of 2015 as a history major. He is a member of the 11th Company and active in the Marathon Team and French Club. He spent the spring semester of 2014 studying abroad at the French Naval Academy in Brest and the Sorbonne University in Paris. After graduation, he hopes to enter either the Naval Special Warfare or Marine Corps Ground community.
William H. Thiesen is the Atlantic area historian for the U.S. Coast Guard. Previously he served as curator and assistant director of the Wisconsin Maritime Museum. His books include Industrializing American Shipbuilding: The Transformation of Ship Design and Construction, 1820–1920 (2006) and Cruise of the Dashing Wave: Rounding Cape Horn in 1860 (2010), both published by University Press of Florida.