Now that almost all my friends from Tape Day have gotten to see themselves on TV, I thought it might be worth a second blog post to reminisce about the experience of watching oneself on Jeopardy! (…

And it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. The Journey I’ve taken the Jeopardy! Anytime test almost every year for the past many years. Nothing ever came of it, nor did I exp…

And it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. The Journey I’ve taken the Jeopardy! Anytime test almost every year for the past many years. Nothing ever came of it, nor did I exp…

ALT: Master And Commander Peter Weir: 1805 Intro

John Williams has written some of the most famous film scores ever, from Star Wars to Indiana Jones to Jurassic Park . But before the blockbuster success, there was a kid growing up around jazz m...

One of 11 surviving copies of ‘Exeter printing’ and only one known outside US was taken from American privateer ship

The United States in the First Barbary War, 1800–1805

According to me. So, take that under advisement.

ALT: a man with a beard is talking and says your conclusions were all wrong

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...

A new book on 400 years of great-power competition

Naval History Symposium page for History Department at USNA.edu. Updated Thu Jan 30 16:36:04 EST 2025.

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…

According to me. So, take that under advisement.

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

According to me. So, take that under advisement.

An excursus that's less related to teaching than usual but might be part of a brief series

Back in 2020, Viral Texts Project co-PI Ryan Cordell—henceforth “I,” as I’m also the one writing here—wrote about our collective failure to develop and maintain a database of the reprints we have unco...

Students' Expectations for Themselves

In which I muse about history pedagogy, in particular the teaching of writing and other communication skills in the college history classroom. Click to read Teaching About Writing History, by Abby Mul...