The Old Navy, 1815-1860:

Africa Squadron: The U.S. Navy and the Slave Trade, 1842-1861, by D. Canney (Potomac Books, 2006)
China Station: War and Diplomacy, 1830-1860, Gerald S. Graham, (Oxford University Press, 1979)
Commodore Matthew Perry and the Perry Expedition to Japan, David G. Wittner, (Rosen Publishing Group, 2005)
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun, Rhoda Blumberg, (HarperCollins, 1985)
The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas, Todd Balf, (Crown, 2003)
Lt. Charles Wilkes and the Great U.S. Exploring Expedition, Cheri Wolfe & Chen Wolfe, (Chelsea House Publishers, 1991)
Far China Station: The U.S. Navy in Asian Waters, 1800-1898, Robert Erwin Johnson, (Naval Institute Press, 1979)
A History of Medicine in the Early U.S. Navy, Harold D. Langley, (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001)
Man-of-War Life: A Boy's Experience in the United States Navy,Charles Nordhoff, (Fredonia Books, 2002)
Matthew Calbraith Perry: Antebellum Sailor and Diplomat, John H. Schroeder, (Naval Institute Press, 2001)
Narrative of the Expedition to the China Seas and Japan, 1852-1854,  Matthew Calbraith Perry, (Dover Publications, 2000)
Navy Maverick: Uriah Phillips Levy, by D. Fitzpatrick (Doubleday, 1963)
"Old Bruin": Commodore Matthew C. Perry, 1794-1858; the American naval officer who helped found Liberia,  Samuel Eliot Morison
The Old Navy: A Heart of Oak--Stories, Ships and Sailors of the U.S. Sailing Navy, Harry Baehr & Christopher B. Price, (Authorhouse, 2002)
Rocks & Shoals: Naval Discipline in the Age of Fighting Sail, Valle, James E., (Naval Institute Press, 1996)
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842, Nathaniel Philbrick, (Viking Books, 2003)
The Old Steam Navy: Frigates, Sloops, and Gunboats, 1815-1885Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. 6,Donald L. Canney, (Stan Clark Military Books, 1990)
The Shaping of American Ethnography: The Wilkes Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842,  Barry Alan Joyce, (University of Nebraska Press, 2001)
Tracks in the Sea: Matthew Fontaine Maury and the Mapping of the Oceans, Chester G. Hearn, (International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2003)
Voyage to the Southern Ocean: The Letters of Lieutenant William Reynolds from the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842, , A. H. Cleaver and E. J. Stann, Naval Institute Press, 1988)

 Lone Star Navy: Texas, the Fight for the Gulf of Mexico, and the Shaping of the American West, by J. Jordan (Potomac Books, 2005)
 The Texas Navy, by United States Navy, Naval History Division (University Press of the Pacific, 2004)

American Civil War:

General:
Arms and Equipment of the Civil War, Coggins, Jack, (Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1962)
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Opening Battles, Robert U. Johnson (1990 reprint of 19th century edition)
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War Vol. 2: Struggle Intensifies, Robert U. Johnson (1990 reprint of 19th century edition)
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Tide Shifts, Robert U. Johnson (1990 reprint of 19th century edition)
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Retreat With Honor, Robert U. Johnson (1990 reprint of 19th century edition)
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. 5, Peter Cozzens, University of Illinois Press (March 1, 2002)
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. 6, Peter Cozzens, University of Illinois Press (March 1, 2004)
By Sea & By River: The Naval History of the Civil War, Anderson, Bern, (Da Capo Press, 1962)
Civil War Heavy Explosive Ordnance: A Guide to Large Artillery Projectiles, Torpedoes, and Mines, Jack Bell, (Univ. of N. Texas Press, 2003)
Civil War Naval Chronology 1861-1865, (Naval History Division, 1971)
Civil War Navies, 1855-1883, by P. Silverstone (Routledge, 2006)
Civil War Sea Battles: Seafights and Shipwrecks in the War Between the States, E, Miller (Combined Books, 1995)
Combined Operations in the Civil War, Reed, Rowena, (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1993)
Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery, by A. Farrow, J. Lang, J. Frank (Ballantine Books, 2005)
Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher, Gragg, Rod, (Harper Collins Publishers, 1991)
Damn the Torpedoes! Naval Incidents of the Civil War, Hoehling, A. A., (John F. Blair Publishers, 1989)
Divided Waters: The Naval History of the Civil War, Musicant, David, (Harper Collins, 1995)
Guns on the Western Waters, Gosnell, H. Allen, (Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1949)
Ironclads at War, Greene, Jack & Massignani, Alesandro, (Combined Publishing, 1998)
Lincoln and the Emperors, Tyrner-Tyrnauer, A. R., (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962)
Mississippi River Gunboats of the American Civil War 1861-65, Angus Konstam, (Osprey Publishing, 2002)
Naval Strategies of the Civil War: Confederate Innovations and Federal Opportunism, Jay W. Simson, (Cumberland House Publishing, 2001)
Naval Warfare, Wideman, John C., Metro Books, 1997)
Raiders and Blockaders: The American Civil War Afloat,Still, William N. and Delaney, Norman C., (Brassey's, Inc., 2000)
Reign of Iron: The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack, James L. Nelson, (William Morrow, 2004)
Round-shot to Rockets: A History of the Washington Navy Yard and U.S. Naval Gun Factory, Peck, Taylor, (United States Naval Institute, 1949)
Salt as a Factor in the Confederacy, Lonn, Ella, Dr., (Walter Neal Publishers, 1933)
Ships vs Shore, Page, Dave, (Rutledge Hill Press, 1994)
Sinews of War: How Technology, Industry, & Transportation Won the Civil War, Bacon, Benjamin W., (Presidio Books, 1997)
Small Arms of the Sea Services , Col. R. Rankin (Flayderman & Company, Inc., 1972)
Submarine Warfare in the Civil War, M. Ragan, (De Capo Press, 2002)
The Civil War Military Machine , Drury, Ian & Gibbons, Tony, (Smithmark Publishers, Inc., 1993)
The Fighting Men of the Civil War, Davis, William C., (Smithmark Publishers, 1989)
The Navies (a volume in "The Photographic History of the Civil War"), Miller, Francis T., (Castle Books, 1957)
Warships of the Civil War Navies, Silverstone, Paul H., (Naval Institute Press, 1989)
Eyewitness Reports: The Inquirer's Live Coverage of the American Civil War, Colimore, Edward, (Philadelphia Inquirer, 2004)

Union:
Assault and Logistics: Union Army Coastal and River Operations 1861-1866, Gibson, Charles D., (Ensign Press, 1995)
The Battle of Mobile Bay, John F. Wakefield, (Honors Press, 2000)
Black Jacks: African-American Seamen in the Age of Sail, Bolster, W. Jeffrey, (Harvard University Press, 1998)
Civil War Ironclads: The U.S. Navy and Industrial Mobilization, William H. Roberts, (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002)
Civil War Sketchbook of Charles Ellery Steadman, USN(Presidio Press, 1976)
Civil War Small Arms of the U. S. Navy and Marine Corps, McAulay, John D., (Andrew Mowbray Inc., Publishers, 1999)
Farragut: America's First Admiral,  Robert J. Schneller Jr., (Brassey's Inc., 2002)
Foreigners in the Union Army and Navy, Lonn, Ella, Dr., (Greenwood Press, 1951)
From Cape Charles to Cape Fear: The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War, Browning, Robert M., (Univ. of Alabama Press, 1993)
Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Secretary of Navy, John Niven,(Oxford University Press, 1973)
Grant's Canal: The Union's Attempt to Bypass Vicksburg, Bastian, David S., (Burd Street Press, 1995)
The Hunt for the Albemarle: Anatomy of a Gunboat War, John W. Hinds, (Burd Street Press, 2002)
Invasion and Conquest of North Carolina: Anatomy of a Gunboat War, Hinds, John W., (Burd Street Press, 1998)
Ironclad Captain: Seth Ledyard Phelps and the U.S. Navy, 1841-1864, Stagle, Jay, (Kent State Univ. Press,1996)
Lamson of the Gettysburg, McPherson, Patricia R., (Oxford University Press, 1997)
Life in Mr. Lincoln's Navy, Ringle, Dennis J., (Naval Institute Press, 1998)
Lincoln and the Emperors, Tyrner-Tynrauer, A. R., (Rupert-Hart-Davis, 1962)
Lincoln's Admiral : The Civil War Campaigns of David Farragut, James P. Duffy, (Wiley, 1997)
Lincoln's Commando: The Biography of Commander William B. Crushing, U.S. Navy, R. J. Roske and C. Van Doren, (Naval Institute Press, 1995)
Lincoln's Lee: The Life of Samuel Phillips Lee, United States Navy, 1812-1897, Dudley T. Cornish & Virginia Laas, (Univ. Pres of Kansas, 1986)
Lincoln’s Navy, Caney, Donald L., (Naval Institute Press, 1998)
Lincoln's Tragic Admiral: The Life Of Samuel Francis Du Pont, Weddle, Kevin J., (Univ. of Virginia  Press, 2005)
Naval Percussion Locks and Primers, John Dahlgren, USN, (1995)
The Night the War was Lost, Dufour, Charles L., (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1994)
The Old Steam Navy: Frigates, Sloops, and Gunboats, 1815-1885, Donald L. Canney, (Stan Clark Military Books, 1990)
A Quest for Glory: A Biography of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren, Robert J. Schneller Jr. (Naval Institute Press (November 1, 1995)
Regulations and Notes of the Uniform for the Navy and Marine Corp of the United States: 1852, Jacques N. Jacobsen, (Pioneer Press, 1989)
Soldiers, Sailors, Slaves, and Ships, Bolster, W. Jeffrey, (New Hampshire Historical Society, 1999)
The Uniforms of the United States Navy, Tily, James C., (South Brunswick, 1964)
The Southern Journey of a Civil War Marine : The Illustrated Note-Book of Henry O. Gusley Edward T. Cotham, Editor (Univ. of Texas Press, 2006)
Success Is All That Was Expected: The South Atlantic Blockading Squadron During the Civil War, Browning, Robert M., (Potomac Books, 2005)
Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War, Michael J. Bennett, (University of North Carolina Press, 2004)
The United States Marine Corps in the Civil War: The First Year, Sullivan, David M., (White Mane Publishing Company, Inc., 1997)
The United States Marine Corps in the Civil War: The Second Year, Sullivan, David M., (White Mane Publishing Company, Inc., 1997)
The United States Marine Corps in the Civil War: The Third Year, Sullivan, David M., (White Mane Publishing Company, Inc., 1999)
The United States Marine Corps in the Civil War: The Final Year, Sullivan, David M., (White Mane Publishing Company, Inc., 2000)
Under the Blue Pennant, or, Notes of a Naval Officer, Grattan, John W., (Wiley, John & Sons, Inc., 1999)
War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor, by D. Mindell (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000)
Yellow Flag: The Civil War Journal of Surgeon's Steward C. Marion Dodson, Charles Albert Earp, (Maryland Historical Society, 2002)

Confederate:
Academy on the James: The Confederate Naval School, R. Thomas Campbell, (White Mane Publishing Company, 1998)
Beneath the Stainless Banner: With Selections from His Recollections of a Naval Life, R. Thomas Campbell, (Burd Street Press, 1999)
Capital Navy: The Men, Ships, and Operations of the James River Squadron, by J. Coski (Savas Beatie, 2005)
Confederate Blockade Runner 1861-1865, Angus Konstam & Tony Bryan, (Osprey Publishing, 2004)
Confederate Commando and Fleet Surgeon, John W. Lynn, (Burd Street Press, 2001)
Confederates Downeast: Confederate Operations in and Around Maine, Mason P. Smith, (Provincial Press, 1985)
Confederate Ironclad 1861-65, by A. Konstam, T. Bryan (Osprey Publishing, 2001)
Confederate Phoenix: The CSS Virginia, R. Thomas Campbell & Alan B. Flanders, (Burd Street Press, 2001)
Confederate Submarines and Torpedo Vessels 1861-65, by A. Konstam, T. Bryan (Osprey Publishing, 2004)
The CSS H.L. Hunley: Confederate Submarine, R. Thomas Campbell, White Mane Publishing Company, 1999)
Danger Beneath the Waves: A History of the Confederate Submarine, James Kloeppel, (Sandlapper Pub Co., 1992)
Fire and Thunder: Exploits of the Confederate States Navy, R. Thomas Campbell, (White Mane Publishing Company, 1997)
Gray Raiders of the Sea: How Eight Confederate Warships Destroyed the Union's High Sea Commerce, Hearn, Chester G., (Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1992)
Gray Thunder: Exploits of the Confederate States Navy, R. Thomas Campbell, (White Mane Publishing Company, 2002)
Guns For Cotton: England Arms the Confederacy, Boaz, Thomas, (Burd Street Press, 1996)
History of the Confederate States Navy, Sharf, J. Thomas, (Gramercy Books, 1996)
The Hunley Story: Journey of a Confederate Submarine, R. Thomas Campbell, (Burd Street Press, 2004)
The Hunley: Submarines, Sacrifice, and Success in the Civil War, Mark K. Ragan, (Narwhal Press, 1999)
Hunters of the Night: Confederate Torpedo Boats in the War Between the States, R. Thomas Campbell, (Burd Street Press, 2000)
Infernal Machines: The Story of Confederate Submarine and Mine Warfare, Perry, Milton F., (Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1985)
Iron Afloat: The Story of the Confederate Ironclads, Still, W. N., Jr., (Univ. of S. Carolina Press, 1988)
Iron Courage: Confederate Ironclads in the War Between the States, R. Thomas Campbell, (White Mane Publishing Company 2005)
Ironclad of the Roanoke: Gilbert Elliott's Albemarle, by R. Elliott (Burd Street Press, 1998) 
Masters of the Shoals: Tales of the Cape Fear Pilots Who Ran the Union Blockade, Jim McNeil, (Da Capo Press, 2003)
Midshipman in Gray: Selections from Recollections of a Rebel Reefer, J. M. Morgan & R. Thomas Campbell, (Burd Street Press, 1997)
Rebel Leathernecks, Ralph W. Donnelly, (White Mane Publishing Company, Inc., 1990)
Rebel Reefers: The Organization and Midshipmen of the Confederate States Naval Academy, James Lee Conrad, (Da Capo Press, 2003)
Sea Hawk of the Confederacy: Lt. Charles W. Read and the Confederate Navy, R. Thomas Campbell, (White Mane Publishing Company, 1999)
Stephen Russell Mallory: A Biography of the Confederate Navy Secretary And United States Senator, by R. Underwood (McFarland & Company, 2005)
Storm over Carolina: The Confederate Navy's Struggle for Eastern North Carolina, by R. Campbell (Cumberland House Publishing, 2005)
Southern Fire: Exploits of the Confederate States Navy, R. Thomas Campbell, (White Mane Publishing Company, 1997)
Southern Service on Land and Sea: The Wartime Journal of Robert Watson, CSA/CSN, R. Thomas Campbell, (Univ. of Tennessee Press, 2002)
Southern Thunder: Exploits of the Confederate States Navy, R. Thomas Campbell, (White Mane Publishing Company, 1996)

1900-1941:

Battle Line: The United States Navy, 1919-1939, by T. Hone, T. Hone (Naval Institute Press, 2006)
The First, the Few, the Forgotten: Navy and Marine Corps Women in World War I, Jean Ebbert & Marie-Beth Hall (Naval Inst. press, 2002)
Lady in the Navy: A Personal Reminiscence, by Joy Bright Hancock (Bluejacket Books, 2002)
Navy Medics with the Marines, 1917-1919, by G. Strott (The Battery Press, Inc., 2005)
A Navy Second to None: The History of U.S. Naval Training in World War I, by M. Besch (Greenwood Press, 2001)
Suddenly We Didn't Want to Die: Memoirs of a World War I Marine, by E. Mackin (Presidio Press, 1993)
US Marine Corps in World War I, 1917-1918, by M. Henry, D. Pavlovic (Osprey Publishing, 1999)
The U.S. Navy in World War I: Combat at Sea and in the Air, by A. B. Feuer (Praeger Publishers, 1999)
White Hats: Stories of the U.S. Navy Before World War II, Floyd Beaver (Glencannon Press, 1999)

The Amphibians Are Coming! : Emergence of the 'Gator Navy and Its Revolutionary Landing Craft, Volume 2, William McGee (BMC Publications, 2000)
Amphibious Operations in the South Pacific in World War II, by W. McGee (BMC Publications, 2000)
At Close Quarters: PT Boats in the United States Navy, by R. Bulkley (Naval Institute Press, 2003)
Black Shoe Carrier Admiral: Frank Jack Fletcher at Coral Seas, Midway & Guadalcanal, by J. Lundstrom (Naval Institute Press, 2006)
Bluejacket Odyssey: Guadalcanal to Bikini, 1942-1946, Naval Armed Guard in the Pacific, by William L. McGee (BMC Publications, 2000)
Clash of the Carriers : The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot of World War II, by S. Coonts, B. Tillman (?)
The Frogmen of World War II: An Oral History of the U.S. Navy's Underwater Demolition Teams, by C. Cunningham (Pocket Star, 2004)
How They Won the War in the Pacific: Nimitz and His Admirals, by E. Hoyt (The Lyons Press, 2000)
The Luck of the Draw: The Memoir of a World War II Submariner: From Savo Island to the Silent Service, by Captain C.  Ruiz USN (Ret.), (Zenith Press, 2005)
Midway: The Battle that Doomed Japan, the Japanese Navy's Story, by M. Fuchida, M. Okumiya, (Bluejacket Books, 2001)
Miracle at Midway, by G. Prange, D. Goldstein, K. Dillon (Penguin 1983)
Naval Submarine Base New London (Images of America series), by D. Bishop (Arcadia Publishing, 2005)
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, James Hornfischer (Bantam, 2004)
US Marine Corps 1941-45, by G. Rottman, M. Chappell (Osprey Publishing, 1995)
US Marine Corps Tank Crewman 1941-45: Pacific, by K. Estes, H. Gerrard (Osprey Publishing, 2003)  
The US Navy in World War II, by M. Henry, R. Bujeiro (Osprey Publishing, 2002)
US Submarine Crewman 1941-45, by R. Hargis, V. Vuksic (Osprey Publishing, 2003)
USS Ranger: The Navy's First Flattop from Keel to Mast, 1934-1946, by R. Cressman (Potomac Books, 2003)
USS Saratoga (CV-3): An Illustrated History of the Legendary Aircraft Carrier 1927-1946, by J. Fry (Schiffer Publishing, 2000)
SBD Dauntless Units of World War 2, by B. Tillman, T. Tullis (Osprey Publishing, 1998)
TBD Devastator Units of the US Navy, by B. Tillman, T. Tullis (Osprey Publishing, 2000)
TBF/TBM Avenger Units of World War 2, by B. Tillman, T. Tullis (Osprey Publishing, 1999)
The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War, by Samuel Eliot Morison (Galahad Books, 1997)
What a Way to Spend a War: Navy Nurse POWs in the Philippines, by D. Danner (Naval Institute Press, 1995)