High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William Norwood Still, Jr. (born in Columbus, Mississippi on 25 September 1932), is an American maritime historian, who was the first director of the program in maritime history at East Carolina University and a noted author of works on Civil War history and U.S. naval history. The son of William Norwood Still and his wife Helen Morris Still, William "Bill" Still attended Mississippi College, where he earned his bachelor of arts degree in 1953. On 4 June 1953, he married Mildrid Boling (died 23 January 2009), with whom he had four children. After serving in the United States Navy in 1954-56, Still went on to the University of Alabama, where he earned his master of arts degree in 1958 with a thesis on "The history of the CSS Arkansas" and his Ph.D. in 1964 with a dissertation on "The construction and fitting out of ironclad vessels-of-war within the Confederacy", completed under the supervision of Professor Robert Erwin Johnson.