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About the Author

Bradford attended Michigan State University where he earned his B.A. and M.A. in history, and studied early American history at the University of Virginia, from which he received his Ph.D. He taught at the U.S. Naval Academy for eight years before joining the faculty of Texas A&M University, where he teaches courses in naval and early American history. In 1987 and 1988 he taught at the MARA Institute of Technology in Malaysia. His principal research interests are navies in the Age of Sail and naval biography.