2000. Bay State Historical League Ayer Award Published works William Ellery: A Rhode Island Politico and Lord of Admiralty (1973) Rebels Under Sail: The American Navy during the Revolution (1976) The American Revolution: Changing Perspectives, edited by Wallace Coyle and William M. Fowler Jr. (1979) The Baron of Beacon Hill: A Biography of John Hancock (1980) Jack Tars and Commodores: The American Navy, 1783–1815 (1984) Under Two Flags: The Navy in the Civil War (1990) Silas Talbot Captain of the Old Ironsides (1995) Samuel Adams: Radical Puritan (1997) America and The Sea: A Maritime History by Benjamin W. Labaree, William M. Fowler Jr., John B. Hattendorf, Edward W. Sloan, Jeffrey J. Safford, and Andrew German, (1998) Empires at War: The French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America, 1754–1763 (2005) America and The Sea: Treasures from the collection of Mystic Seaport (co-author) (2005) An American Crisis: George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years After Yorktown, 1781–1783 (2011) Steam Titans: Cunard, Collins, and the Epic Battle for Commerce on the North Atlantic (2017) References Contemporary Authors External links Faculty Page at Northeastern University The William M. Fowler Jr. papers, 1976–2000 are located in the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Department, Boston, MA. Northeastern University faculty Northeastern University alumni University of Notre Dame alumni Living people American maritime historians American naval historians American male non-fiction writers Historians of New England Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime History faculty United States Army officers 1944 births People from Wakefield, Massachusetts Historians from Massachusetts Military personnel from Massachusetts