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Superintendent ≠ faculty.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

If you’ve ever sat on an NEH review panel (as many of us have), you know how difficult it is to win a grant. It’s an incredibly exacting process, with way too many excellent projects competing for funding. Awardees are scrutinized from every direction, with more rigor than DOGE can even imagine.

submitted 38 days ago • 9 comments

Lots of people are hurting today, but I think it’s important to say that the closure of NEH and IMLS is an existential event for #DigitalHumanities #DH

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

It bears repeating that every one of these "defundings"—each & every one!—is an illegal & unconstitutional usurpation of Congress' exclusive power to determine how the people's money is spent & requires, as a basic matter of constitutional fidelity, the impeachment & removal of everyone involved

submitted 39 days ago • 6 comments

🌊🌊🌊 New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊 Check out @abbymullen.bsky.social (USNA)’s rvw of Richard J. King (@sea1971.bsky.social Williams College–Mystic Seaport)’s bk _Ocean Bestiary: Meeting Marine Life from Abalone to Orca to Zooplankton_ pub 2023 @uchicagopress.bsky.social Review avail @hnetreviews.bsky.social

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

I’m honored to have an essay in this great new volume edited by Paul Kennedy and @evanwilson.bsky.social . Nice to get this in the mail today after a very bad week all around.

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

A new book, from me and Paul Kennedy: evanmwilson.substack.com/p/best-laid-... #navalhistory

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

Registration for the 2025 McMullen Naval History Symposium is now live! It’s a great conference, it will be a great place to think seriously about the value of history for our armed forces, and it’s free! www.usna.edu/History/Symp...

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Inspired by the recent #JERWinter2024 conversation on the Revolution at 250, Dillon Streifeneder considers how historians in recent years have worked to bring military history back into the history of the American Revolution: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/01/21/a...

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

As I was getting my oil changed yesterday, I walked over to the local bookshop and saw @theotherrbg.bsky.social in the window!

submitted 132 days ago • 1 comment

I try to remember to say this at the end of every year. If you buy my books, thank you. If you buy them as ebooks or audiobooks, thank you. If you buy them used, thank you. If you borrow them from a library, thank you. If you borrow them from a friend or steal them from an enemy, thank you. ❤️

submitted 137 days ago • 9 comments

Christmas is done, you’re getting ready for the @historians.org annual conference, putting finishing touches on your conference paper… but what are you trying to do in that paper? I wrote up a few thoughts about what good conference papers do. open.substack.com/pub/abbymull...

submitted 137 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve seen my own book a few times today in photos of the books people got for Christmas. I didn’t anticipate how special it would feel that people want OTHER people to read my book! If you bought my book for someone else, thank you from the bottom of my heart. And if you received it, happy reading!

submitted 138 days ago • 1 comment

Go Navy, beat (past tense) Army!! #fearthegoat

submitted 149 days ago • 1 comment

I’m really honored that my book is on the @warontherocks.bsky.social Holiday Reading List! warontherocks.com/2024/12/the-...

submitted 150 days ago • 0 comments

USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) and USS Constellation (CV-64) team up at sea for "GO NAVY," "BEAT ARMY" spellouts on their respective flight decks in 1995. #WarshipWednesday #GoNavyBeatArmy

submitted 152 days ago • 7 comments

I wrote up some thoughts about what makes an effective (history) conference paper. I’d love to hear your thoughts! abbymullen.substack.com/p/the-ideal-...

submitted 154 days ago • 0 comments

Usually I write a newsletter about teaching history writing, but this week I went a little out of my lane to write about conference papers. I’d love to hear what you think. open.substack.com/pub/abbymull...

submitted 162 days ago • 1 comment

Soft launch on a Friday afternoon, but I’m too excited to wait—we finally have a new database providing search & download access to the Viral Texts Project’s "speculative bibliographies" of C19 newspaper reprinting Huge thanks to iSchool PhD student Daniel Evans for making the impossible possible!

submitted 206 days ago • 3 comments

What do we do when our students say, “I’m just not a good writer”? I don’t have answers, but I have thoughts! open.substack.com/pub/abbymull...

submitted 209 days ago • 1 comment

We're still kicking as a small magazine that found an audience on Twitter. But we're not there anymore, and it's much harder for pubs like Contingent to find and grow an audience, so if you like our stuff--tell someone about it! Read a random article here! contingentmagazine.org?redirect_to=...

submitted 211 days ago • 5 comments

Because I always jump on the new thing well after it has become an old thing, I’ve started a Substack, where I intend to start conversations about teaching history, and particularly teaching writing in history classes. You can join me if you like! open.substack.com/pub/abbymullen

submitted 211 days ago • 2 comments

Shoutout to @abbymullen.bsky.social as I just finished "To Fix a National Character"; I very much enjoyed this admirable book. Good to learn how the Consuls interacted with the Navy during 1st Barbary War. Thanks for your work, Dr. Mullen!

submitted 215 days ago • 2 comments

What's unfolding in Western NC and E Tennessee is a disaster of monumental proportions--please keep the people there in your thoughts and help as you can. BUT ALSO: Project 2025 wants to dismantle NOAA (weather tracking/warnings), FEMA, and effective governance in general. Remember that as you vote

submitted 226 days ago • 12 comments

I don't have a lot of interest in the original author's stale arguments, but I will say: if there are history podcasts you love, TELL EVERYONE. They don't have big marketing budgets (or any marketing budgets), and it's really hard to grow an audience.

submitted 242 days ago • 1 comment

The Connecting Threads team is launching their project website October 11 at the Victoria and Albert Museum! This event will explore the history and culture of Madras textiles in India and the Caribbean with a line up of speakers. Register to join in person or online: www.vam.ac.uk/event/YGVBDZ...

submitted 245 days ago • 1 comment

I completely forgot to post here, but my book was officially released yesterday! Thank you very much to those who have already bought it. I look forward to hearing what you think!

submitted 278 days ago • 7 comments

Attending #DH2024? These history podcasts will keep you company on the ride home. Check out: Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant Worlds Turned Upside Down Antisemitism, USA The Green Tunnel Consolation Prize Listen here: www.r2studios.org Tell your parents

submitted 279 days ago • 0 comments