Dr. Glenn S. Gordinier is the Robert G. Albion Historian at Mystic Seaport. He also teaches history at the University of Connecticut-Avery Point. His specialty is the early national period. He has co-authored the book Fishing out of Stonington: Voices of the Fishing Families of Stonington, Connecticut (Mystic Seaport Press, 2004), and is editor of Gender, Race Ethnicity and Power in Maritime America, (Mystic Seaport Press, 2008), and wrote The Rockets’ Red Glare: the War of 1812 and Connecticut, (New London County Historical Society, 2012).