Teaching About Writing History
Abby MullenIn 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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Gratitude for Historians on the Ground
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...
The Joy of Primary Sources
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...
The Ideal Conference Paper
I talked last time about the ways in which conference papers enact disciplinarity. Today, I want to expand on some of the ideas in that post. I’ve distilled some observations from recent conferences into thoughts about what makes a good his...
In Praise of Conference Papers
I’ve been thinking about conferences a lot lately. I’m the deputy director for our big naval history conference (the McMullen Naval History Symposium) in 2025, and I’ve been thinking about how to make that conference the best possible exper...
Showing our work: Revision
A couple weeks ago, I gave a talk for the Forum on Integrated Naval History and Seapower Studies, in concert with the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership, here on the Yard. Though the audience was almost all other USNA faculty and staff...
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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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