Dog Days of November

I still don’t have very much to report about Mabbott.  We’ve been in the middle of some very dangerous fires.  Why fires are still burning in November is beyond me, but this last week has been very bad.  The Tea Fire in Montecito was quite scary, and a number of faculty and students were displaced. [...]

Thoughts on education

I haven’t had the time to do any work on Mabbott this week, so I don’t have much on him to report.  I’ve been doing grading for a class I am TAing on the History of Latin America.  The material is interesting, but of course some students can engage with it and others cannot.  To [...]

Newsletters finis

I finally finished transcribing the Mabbott-Hull newsletters a little while ago.  I thought I would take a little time to think about what I found in them, and since it’s time for a new post, to discuss them here.
I suppose the more general comments should go first.  Unsurprisingly, it seems obvious that Mabbott was writing [...]