
In which I muse about history pedagogy, in particular the teaching of writing and other communication skills in the college history classroom.
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If you haven’t read Part 1 of this archival labyrinth, you probably should. We’ll wait.
There are at least three other pensioners who were on board General Washington. Two I’m sure about because they mention...
On June 9, 1781, in the 39th parallel of latitude, 50 leagues southeast of Sandy Hook, the American privateer General Washington spotted a sail on the horizon. The privateer gave chase, no doubt hoping to make a prize. Upon closer examinati...
It’s been a long time since I wrote here. Professional duties and caution have prevented me from doing a lot of public writing recently. But I needed to take a few minutes to write about the passing of a scholar whose work and life I deeply...
Well, I didn’t do the pension records thing I said I was going to do. Not because I didn’t find or read pension records—I did. I found around 1300 pensioners who had some kind of sea service, and I read about 500 of their records. But life...
Hey y’all. It’s been a while. I offer two excuses. (1) Over the past few months, instead of writing about writing, I’ve been working on some research projects that have taken up a lot of my time. More about those in this and future newslett...
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Abby is a history professor at the US Naval Academy. (All views in this Substack are her own.) She writes about the First Barbary War and other early naval topics; she teaches naval history, maritime history, and historical methods.
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