The New York Commandery of the Naval Order of the United States announced in September that historian Nicholas A. Lambert is the winner of the 2024 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature for his book The Neptune Factor: Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Concept of Sea Power, published by the Naval Institute Press.
The award is named for the late Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, the Harvard University history professor widely considered to be America’s most distinguished naval historian. It is presented to an American author “who by his published writings has made a substantial contribution to the preservation of the history, heritage, and traditions of the United States Sea Services—the Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and U.S. Flag Merchant Marine.”
Dr. Lambert is a naval historian and a leading authority on the strategic implications of globalization. He received his BA with a double major in economics and history, his MA in history and economics, and his D.Phil in modern history from Worcester College, University of Oxford.
