Anna Gibson Holloway is the former curator of the
award- winning USS Monitor Center at e Mariners’ Museum in Newport
News, Virginia. She holds a Ph.D. in history from the College of
William & Mary and is a leading expert on the Civil War ironclad
USS Monitor. Her articles have appeared in American Heritage,
America’s Civil War, Civil War Times, and Naval History Magazine.
She currently serves as the maritime historian for the National
Park Service’s Maritime Heritage Program in Washington, D.C.
Jonathan W. White is associate professor of
American Studies at Christopher Newport University and a senior
fellow with CNU’s Center for American Studies. He serves on the
Board of Directors of the Abraham Lincoln Association, is vice
president of the Abraham Lincoln Institute, and serves on the
Ford’s Theatre Advisory Council. His recent books include
Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Re- election of Abraham
Lincoln and Midnight in America: Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during
the Civil War.
Holloway and White have . . . done a great service to the historical community in drawing a vast wealth of sources about the ship to the surface. The authors of Our Little Monitor have gone beyond an edited volume and produced an accessible narrative intertwined with primary sources in a way that will give scholars a new depth of detail on circumstances from the ship’s inception to its recovery, and the general reader gets far more than just a glimpse behind the iron plate."- History: Reviews of New Books"'Our Little Monitor' would look just as at home with lavishly illustrated coffee table books as it would with other important scholarly volumes. It contains well over a hundred full color, detailed photographs that help really solidify how contemporary observers viewed Ericsson's Monitor. Nestled amongst the images are lesser known primary accounts of the Battle of Hampton Roads, songs and poems written about the ship and her crew, as well as drawings and paintings that celebrated the 'Greatest Invention of the Civil War.' This book will undoubtedly set a standard for Monitor research in the future and should be included in any serious historiography. It ought to be considered a "must" for any serious student of the American Civil War and would be an entertaining read to even those with just a casual interest."- Hampton Roads Naval Museum
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