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Third Book Off The Presses
Maine Maritime Academy professors have steadily been
adding to the body of publications reaching national and
international audiences. Dr. Patricia Bixel, professor of history
and chair of the Arts and Sciences Department, published her
latest work in November 2012. She and Professor John David
Smith, Distinguished Professor of History at the University
of North Carolina (Charlotte, NC), co-authored Seeing the
New South ­ Race and Place in the Photographs of
Ulrich Bonnell Phillips. The beautifully-produced book
is a fascinating analysis of the photographs of Phillips, "an
early 20th century authority of African-American slavery and
the Old South." [Book Jacket] In the course of researching
Phillips, Bixel and Smith uncovered around 500 rarely, if ever,
seen images. The thesis of their monograph is that Phillips'
"scholarship and attitudes" had a profound effect on "the ways
people investigated and analyzed the South." ["Introduction"].
Bixel was the assistant editor of the Journal of Southern
History for several years. She co-authored (with Elizabeth
Hayes Turner) another book titled Galveston and the
1900 Storm that won wide acclaim and is often referenced
whenever a hurricane tears through an area. Prior to that,
when she was Executive Director of the Elissa Project devoted
to the restoration of the 1877 barque Elissa, Bixel published a
notable book called Sailing Ship Elissa. All three books are
available at the Academy Bookstore.
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