J. Revell Carr (born 1939) is an American author, historian, curator and museum director.
Biography
Carr was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. He had a long career at Mystic Seaport. He held leadership positions in a number of other museum and cultural organizations. He has written two non-fiction books. In 2000, Carr was designated The Nathaniel Bowditch Maritime Scholar of the Year, by the United States Merchant Marine Academy.
Carr collated Amerikanische Schiffsbilder,[2] the catalogue for an American Bicentennial Exhibition, which he curated in Hamburg, Germany, in 1976. Carr's first book, All Brave Sailors – The Sinking of the Anglo-Saxon,[3] was published in 2003. Walter Cronkite, in commenting on All Brave Sailors, said, “Revell Carr in one of the world’s outstanding maritime historians. It turns out he writes like a prize-winning novelist.”[4] The book received a Starred Review in “Publishers Weekly”,[5] was the subject of a documentary on the German television program Aspekte, was a selection for the U.S. Navy Reading List,[6] and was also included in the list of “101 Crackerjack Sea Books” compiled by Bookmarks magazine.[7] In 2008, Carr published Seeds of Discontent – Deep Roots of the American Revolution,[8] focusing the roots of the American Revolutionary War going back to the founding of the United States.
Carr served as the Historical Advisor for the A&E Network's 1958 The Doomed Voyage of the St. Louis[citation needed], has appeared in documentaries in the Sea Tales Series and made a number of television appearances for Operation Sail.[9]
In 2013, Carr helped found the Women's International Study Center (WISC)[10] in Santa Fe and he serves as the President of the WISC Board. He is also President of the Board of Santa Fe Pro Musica, the chamber orchestra and ensembles. Currently, he is at work on another book and is a regular lecturer for Road Scholar and Holland America Lines.
