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DOCUMENT Citation Only William S. Sassorossi.

The United States was not fully prepared for war in the Atlantic Ocean directly following the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.  Plans and resources were needed to counter Germany's U-boat operations that quickly followed the Japanese attack.  The U.S. Navy acquired ships of all types from both public and commercial sectors and adapted them for military use.  The focus of this study will be on converted fishing trawlers, specifically ones ultimately wrecked off of the coast of North...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sydney Swierenga.

This is an abstract from the "Developing Standard Methods, Public Interpretation, and Management Strategies on Submerged Military Archaeology Sites" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper explores the conversion process of SS Seeandbee and SS Greater Buffalo into USS Wolverine and USS Sable as they were transformed from luxury paddle-wheel steamers to training aircraft carriers in the Great Lakes and underscores the impact these two vessels...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Stack. Matt Liebmann.

The religious conversion of Native North Americans was a fundamental goal of European colonizers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Native experiences of missionization have often been framed within a concept of religious conversion as ontological transformation that descends from Christian doctrine. Many Native ‘converts’ doubtless eluded encounters with the transcendent leading to fundamental inner change, and archaeologists have often been frustrated in the search for convincing...