What's in a name?
This is the official name of the City that Lit the World.
What is New Bedford?
Alson Kelen's continuation of navigational traditions helps preserve the culture of this now largely uninhabitable place.
What is Bikini Atoll?
This decision recognized Indigenous fishing rights guaranteed by the Stevens Treaties in Washington.
What is the Boldt Decision?
Sailors kept this kind of record for their "own amusement."
What is a journal?
This maestro of the exotic profited from Americans' fascination with things new, different, and strange, creating a problematic framework for viewing everything from cultural artefacts to taxidermized seals.
Who is P.T. Barnum?
This poisonous path from Baton Rouge to New Orleans earned this nickname for its higher-than-normal rates of illness.
What is Cancer Alley?
Organizations like WildAid and Sea Shepherd actively oppose the consumption of this high-status dish.
What is shark-fin soup?
A designer from this European nation purposely named his iconic bathing suit after a site of nuclear testing.
What is France?
This lard and flour mixture was a common feature of meals afloat.
What is duff?
The aedes aegypti mosquito rapidly spread this illness around Louisiana.
What is yellow fever?
That their ancestors came from Acadia helps explain this community's modern name.
Who are Cajuns?
This conflict between Indigenous fishers and Washington state authorities ultimately led the state to recognize their fishing rights.
What are the Fish Wars?
These soothing herbs might appear in medicine chests at sea.
What are lavender and chamomile? [one or other okay]
This ill-fated ship's voyage and its survivors later inspired Herman Melville.
What is the Essex?
Known as "Her Deepness," in 1971 she captained a crew of all-female aquanauts who lived and worked in TEKTITE; she was the first woman to serve as chief scientist of NOAA in 1990.
Who is Dr. Sylvia Earle?
The name for this town comes from a word meaning "great tidal river."
What is Mystic (or Missi-Tuk)?
Dr. Mason led these protests in Biloxi that helped integrate the public beach.
What are wade-ins?
Chief Justice Marshall's 1823 decision in Johnson v. M'Intosh established the doctrine of this, which said that this "gave title to the government" and "an exclusive right to extinguish the Indian title of occupancy either by purchase or by conquest."
What is discovery (or the Doctrine of Discovery)?
This disappointed seal-hunter made early contact with Antarctica.
Who is Nathaniel Palmer?
Filipinos like Carlos Bulosan who worked in Alaskan canneries were referred to as this.
Who are Alaskeros?
Women-owned and operated businesses gave this Nantucket area its nickname.
What is Petticoat Row?
People in these often feminized and racialized roles afloat formed an integrated union that protected their membership (by force if needed).
Who are cooks and stewards?
This collection of Supreme Court cases helped define the status of American territories, incorporated and unincorporated, in the early twentieth century.
What are the Insular Cases?
This man's work in farming, coastal trades, and at sea helped him earn enough money to purchase his family's freedom from slavery. He described these experiences in his Narrative.
Who is Venture Smith?
After serving in the military, Jose Sarria returned to San Francisco, where he became the first openly gay political candidate to run for office in America and held the title as the Absolute Empress of this.
What is drag?