William H. Thiesen

Bill Thiesen serves as the Atlantic Area Historian for the United States Coast Guard. Before working for the Coast Guard, he taught college courses in history at the undergraduate and graduate levels and served as curator and assistant director at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum. His articles and reviews appear regularly in naval, maritime and Coast Guard-related periodicals and web sites. He recently edited Philip Hichborn's 1860 sea journal "Cruise of the Dashing Wave," which was published by University Press of Florida in February 2010.