Abby Mullen
@abbymullen.bsky.social
Naval historian, professor at USNA (views are my own), digital historian sometimes.
Did you know that the North American Society for Oceanic History has book awards for maritime & naval history & archaeology? If your book on a topic in those categories has a 2025 original copyright, you’re probably eligible for consideration for this year. Give me a shout if you want to know more!
October 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Did you know that the North American Society for Oceanic History has book awards for maritime & naval history & archaeology? If your book on a topic in those categories has a 2025 original copyright, you’re probably eligible for consideration for this year. Give me a shout if you want to know more!
Naval Academy on Lockdown for ‘Active Threat’ - USNI News
This post will be updated with additional information as available. U.S. Naval Academy and Naval Support Activity Annapolis are on lockdown following reports of a threat against the installation, a Na...
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September 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Co-sign!
As we all stagger home from vacations & begin working on syllabi in earnest, I’d offer my semesterly recommendation that @wcaleb.org's generic syllabus maker can generate a list of days your class will meet—all you have to do is delete any holidays, etc. from the list wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...
Generic Syllabus Maker
wcaleb.rice.edu
August 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Co-sign!
I’m not saying the First Barbary War is relevant right now but I’m not NOT saying that, so maybe you should buy my book right now with this excellent sale just to be sure.
And whatever it is yes we probably have a book on it and yes you can get it 40% off through tomorrow www.press.jhu.edu/books
Books
www.press.jhu.edu
July 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I’m not saying the First Barbary War is relevant right now but I’m not NOT saying that, so maybe you should buy my book right now with this excellent sale just to be sure.
I missed the official sign off for Brett Bobley, but it would not be illegitimate to say that his work at the NEH got me to the job I’m in today. His faith in a young grad student launched me down a path toward being a real naval historian who does digital stuff. #ThanksBrett
*sigh* It's too soon, but on the day of his retirement from public service, I think that it's important to recognize the contributions of Brett Bobley to the work of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the field. #ThanksBrett for your leadership, your good cheer & your home-baked goods.
June 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I missed the official sign off for Brett Bobley, but it would not be illegitimate to say that his work at the NEH got me to the job I’m in today. His faith in a young grad student launched me down a path toward being a real naval historian who does digital stuff. #ThanksBrett
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*sigh* It's too soon, but on the day of his retirement from public service, I think that it's important to recognize the contributions of Brett Bobley to the work of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the field. #ThanksBrett for your leadership, your good cheer & your home-baked goods.
June 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
*sigh* It's too soon, but on the day of his retirement from public service, I think that it's important to recognize the contributions of Brett Bobley to the work of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the field. #ThanksBrett for your leadership, your good cheer & your home-baked goods.
Now seems like a pretty unfortunate time to be living in a district whose seat is vacant.
June 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Now seems like a pretty unfortunate time to be living in a district whose seat is vacant.
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#OTD in 1942, Doris Miller was presented with the Navy Cross by ADM Chester Nimitz for his heroic actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Miller was later killed during the Battle of Makin in 1943. The fourth Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier will be named in his honor.
May 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
#OTD in 1942, Doris Miller was presented with the Navy Cross by ADM Chester Nimitz for his heroic actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Miller was later killed during the Battle of Makin in 1943. The fourth Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier will be named in his honor.
Superintendent ≠ faculty.
April 27, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Superintendent ≠ faculty.
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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.
April 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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.
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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
April 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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
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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
What the defunding happening at the National Endowment for the Humanities means—for individual grantees and state humanities councils & their grantees (by Jennifer Schuessler at NYT) tl;dr It’s really bad!!
Groups Are Told That Federal Humanities Grants Are Canceled (Gift Article)
Letters informed grant recipients that funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities would be redirected to furthering “the president’s agenda.”
www.nytimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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
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🌊🌊🌊 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
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
March 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
🌊🌊🌊 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
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
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.
March 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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.
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Best-Laid Plans
A new book on 400 years of great-power competition
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February 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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...
McMullen Naval History Symposium
Naval History Symposium page for History Department at USNA.edu. Updated Thu Jan 30 16:36:04 EST 2025.
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February 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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...
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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...
American Revolution or Revolutionary War?
Inspired by the recent JER 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 Ame…
thepanorama.shear.org
January 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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...
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And I see a corner of @abbymullen.bsky.social 's excellent "To Fix a National Character" at the lower right. Nice array of good books from a great press.
January 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
And I see a corner of @abbymullen.bsky.social 's excellent "To Fix a National Character" at the lower right. Nice array of good books from a great press.
As I was getting my oil changed yesterday, I walked over to the local bookshop and saw @theotherrbg.bsky.social in the window!
December 31, 2024 at 5:37 PM
As I was getting my oil changed yesterday, I walked over to the local bookshop and saw @theotherrbg.bsky.social in the window!
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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. ❤️
Library purchases are purchases. They pay the press. The press counts them towards advances and royalties. And (gasp) the book is in a library!! It’s wonderful and no one should ever feel bad about getting a book through a library instead of buying it.
I got it from my local library system, which has 28 physical copies (more than half are checked out) and 4 audiobooks. The branch library is two blocks from my house so I get most of my books from there. Hope this helps because I loved the book - I'm not a historian and knew nothing of that period.
December 27, 2024 at 2:16 AM
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. ❤️
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...
The Ideal Conference Paper
According to me. So, take that under advisement.
open.substack.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:53 PM
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...
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!
December 26, 2024 at 1:42 AM
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!
Go Navy, beat (past tense) Army!! #fearthegoat
December 15, 2024 at 1:32 AM
Go Navy, beat (past tense) Army!! #fearthegoat
I’m really honored that my book is on the @warontherocks.bsky.social Holiday Reading List! warontherocks.com/2024/12/the-...
The 2024 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List - War on the Rocks
Every year we kick off the holiday season with a roundup of books recommended by the War on the Rocks team. Enrich your friends’ libraries, get a family
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December 13, 2024 at 4:58 PM
I’m really honored that my book is on the @warontherocks.bsky.social Holiday Reading List! warontherocks.com/2024/12/the-...
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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
#WarshipWednesday
#GoNavyBeatArmy
December 12, 2024 at 4:42 AM
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
#WarshipWednesday
#GoNavyBeatArmy