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Lincoln Paine

All history is maritime history

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Lincoln Paine
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Lincoln Paine is the author of five books and more than a hundred articles, reviews, and lectures on maritime history. His books include the award-winning The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World (Knopf, 2013), Down East: An Illustrated History of Maritime  Maine (Tilbury House, 2018), and Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia (Houghton Mifflin, 1997).

From 2009 to 2012, Lincoln was the guest curator and archivist of the Norman H. Morse Collection of Ocean Liner Materials at the Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine.

He has lectured on maritime history and taught writing workshops nationally as well as in India, China, Australia, and Europe.

He was on the editorial board of Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction and was editor of Sea History magazine, published by the National Maritime Historical Society.

He currently serves on the board of the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath (one of the ten best maritime museums in the world, according to marineinsight.com). He and his wife live in Portland. Their daughters happen to be named for ships.

See his author profile on the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance “Find Maine Writers” page.

 

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Recent Posts

  • “The Sunshine Skyway Collapse, May 9, 1980”
  • NASOH Annotated Bibliography of Race, Class, Labor, and Gender in U.S. Maritime History
  • Paine, “Over the Bounded Main”
  • Review of Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Or-der in World War II by Paul Kennedy
  • A Sea-Change for the Classroom: Maritime Identities—Seas, Ships, and Sailors—the Law and Teaching World History

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