The USS Monitor bibliography is an annotated bibliography created as a joint project of The Library at The Mariners' Museum and the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary. The project is partially funded by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Benjamin H. Trask analyzed and created annotations for most of the materials in this bibliography with direct consultation and assistance from Dina B. Hill. This annotated bibliography updates two previously printed Monitor bibliographies: The Monitor: A Bibliography, by Gordon P.Watts, Jr. and James A. Pleasants Jr., published in 1978, and The Monitor and the Merrimac: A Bibliography, by David R. Smith, published in 1968. This bibliography includes printed material related to the USS Monitor from 1862 to the present; the Battle of Hampton Roads fought on March 8 - 9, 1862; John Ericsson's life as it relates to the development and history of the USS Monitor; the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary, which is administered by NOAA; and USS Monitor recovery efforts. The work is divided into four parts: (1) nonfiction books, pamphlets, theses, and chapters of books, (2) journal, magazine, newsletter, newspaper, and conference articles, (3) government documents, and (4) fiction books and poetry.
Items are numbered and arranged alphabetically within each part by author or title, when no author appears in the citation. Multiple entries for items contained in the Congressional Globe (later the Congressional Record) and entries in the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion are listed chronologically by date below the title entry. Items held at The Library at The Mariners' Museum are identified by call number locations highlighted in red. (For example: PER CC1.C44 or VM1.M3). Brief annotations are included for most citations.
Part 1 includes books, pamphlets, theses, and chapters of books. Chapters of books are listed by the author of the chapter. Selected nonfiction materials published for younger audiences are also included in this section.
Part 2 contains articles from a variety of sources including journals, magazines, newsletters, newspapers, and conference proceedings. The newspaper articles represent only a portion of the thousands of newspaper articles written about the USS Monitor and efforts to recover the vessel. Additional newspaper articles related to recovery efforts are being compiled at The Library at The Mariners' Museum in a clippings collection entitled "The Mariners' Museum in the News." The Library also has an extensive collection of articles related to the USS Monitor, the USS Merrimack, the CSS Virginia, and other Civil War armor-clads in a 36-volume set of clippings entitled "The Monitor and the Merrimack," compiled by Weldon B. Hester. Researchers expecting to find detailed accounts of the battle from the perspective of Norfolk and Portsmouth, in papers such as the Norfolk Day Book, will be disappointed to learn that few of those papers were printed during the war and even fewer have survived for present-day research.
Part 3 includes federal, state, and local government publications, including NOAA and the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary publications. Articles from the Cheesebox, the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary's monthly newsletter and activities report, are compiled in Part 2. Part 4 includes adult and youth fiction titles and poetry.
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