Award winning author, William H. White has been an historian specializing in the maritime heritage and American involvement in the Age of Sail for most of his adult life. A life-long sailor himself, he recently, after 65 years of sailing, bought a power boat to continue his long term love affair with salt water. He has sailed under square rig, giving him a knowledgeable and first hand insight to the complex workings of the vessels about which he writes. He served as an officer in the United States Navy in the '60's and was actively involved in naval operations for three years in Vietnam. He serves as a Life Trustee of the USS Constitution Museum in Boston, and on the Board of Directors of the LYNX Educational Foundation. He has been a consultant to the reproduction 1812 privateer Lynx and was named a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society. For many years he was a Trustee and officer of the National Maritime Historical Society and heavily involved in their operations. Early in 2012 White was elected to the Board of Trustees of Operation Sail, Inc. OpSail was one of the main sponsors and participants in The War of 1812 Bicentennial commemorative events scheduled for 2012-15. Speaking venues include the USS Constitution Museum, Boston; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem (MA); Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax (NS); Herreshoff Marine Museum, Bristol (RI); Calvert Maritime Museum, Solomons (MD); and India House, NYC, and many others. He has also been a guest lecturer at SUNY Maritime College, Fort Schuler NY. A member of the 1812 Consortium, Mr. White was one of the program speakers at the 2003 Fall War of 1812 Symposium in Baltimore, MD. He has authored, in addition to his novels, a variety of magazine articles on both historical and contemporary subjects. In 2007, he was honored by Sea History Magazine with the first Rodney Houghton Award for Excellence, given for the best feature length article of the year. His article detailed the cruise of Pandora and the capture, trial, and execution of the mutineers. Mr. White was recently honored by the USS Constitution Museum in Boston with the Samuel Eliot Morison Award. The award is "the highest recognition by the Board of a person whose public service has enhanced the image of the USS Constitution and who reflects the best of Admiral Morison: artful scholarship, patriotic pride, and eclectic interest in the sea and things maritime and a desire to preserve the best of our past for future generations." He joins the ranks of past recipients including Walter Cronkite, Henry Cabot Lodge, Arleigh Burke, Patrick O'Brian, Nathaniel Philbrick, and Ira Dye. He has appeared on the History Channel on "History or Hollywood" as well as participating as one of the narrators in a "docu-drama