Newport Rhode Island. Awards Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature in 2015 for Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings. In 2014, The Naval Historical Foundation awarded him the Commodore Dudley W. Knox Naval History Lifetime Achievement Award. The Abraham Lincoln Book Award, 2010 The Lincoln Prize, 2009 (co-winner with James M. McPherson) for Lincoln and His Admirals. The Barondess Prize, 2009 The Daniel and Marilyn Laney Prize, 2009 The Nevins-Freeman Prize, 2009 The Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History, 2006 Anne Arundel County Award for Literary Arts, 2006 John Lyman Book Awards, 1995, 1999, 2009 USNA Research Excellence Award, 1998 USNA Teaching Excellence Award, 1988 Navy Superior Civilian Service Award, 1994, 1998, 2005, 2020 Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award, 1989 History Book Club Author, 1983, 1986, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2010 Military Book Club Author, 1983, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2005 Book-of-the-Month Club Author, 1983, 1986, 1992, 2001, 2005 Published works Charleston Blockade: The Journals of John B. Marchand, USN, edited by Craig Symonds. (Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 1976. Navalists and Antinavalists: The Naval Policy Debate in the United States, 1785–1827. (University of Delaware Press, 1980). New Aspects of Naval History, edited by Craig Symonds. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1981). A Battlefield Atlas of the Civil War. (Annapolis, MD: Nautical and Aviation Press, 1983). A Battlefield Atlas of the American Revolution. (Annapolis, MD: Nautical and Aviation Press, 1986). (reprint 1991) Gettysburg: A Battlefield Atlas, by Craig Symonds with William J. Clipson. (Annapolis, MD: Nautical and Aviation, 1992). Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne and the Civil War. (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1997). Confederate Admiral: The Life and Wars of Franklin Buchanan. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1999). New Interpretations in Naval History: Selected Papers from the Fourteenth Naval History Symposium, Held at Annapolis, Maryland, 23–25 September 1999, Naval Institute Press (Annapolis, MD), 2001. References External links "Craig L. Symonds", Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009. Interview on The Battle of Midway at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library on October 7, 2011 Marquis Who's Who Biographies On-Line Member of the Executive Committee of The Lincoln Forum Living people University of California, Los Angeles alumni University of Florida alumni Naval War College faculty United States Naval Academy faculty American naval historians American male non-fiction writers Historians of the United States 1946 births Lincoln Prize winners