Benjamin L. Carp 🎏

Honestly I think you’re underestimating the kids’ Lego-throwing range

Odds are the kids haven’t met *every* author in the collection. Some are no doubt long dead!

Unnatural, to be sure, yet typical

That’s good—they won’t be overly impressed by any of us. We need that.

"I like it!" or "I hate it!" really comes in handy when you've been given a word count of 3, though.

I never shot for that one, or JAH.

That being said, I once had an article that they didn’t know what to do with get suddenly *made* (with other articles) into a special issue, which elevated the quality of my piece through no effort of my own

We’re looking at you, WMQ!

Image counts, too. And if you’re into using images, be prepared to spend a ton of your own time and $ on reproductions and permissions. It’s a lot to do (my books each have 30 b/ws apiece). All love to JCB, LOC, and NYPL, who make it all much easier

Although my mother was a speech pathologist so maybe it runs in the blood.

One thing I haven't done is studied toddler comms...

Welcome to New York! 🗽

It’s like the novel Snow Crash

Ok I should have said “at least”

captain america says i understood that reference Alt: captain america says i understood that reference

…would have been a palace to us!

I don’t want your first point to get buried—in history, estimate two years from submission to final publication

Also, arguably, the peer review can be more rigorous for journal articles

Try not to act so shocked, ok?

Maybe they meant "fit" in the British sense, as in attractive?

I am on the prize committee and am happy to answer general questions about what I think makes a successful application (though I only have one year's experience thus far, and I'm just one guy).

The Roelker awards rotate on a three-year cycle, so this is your last chance to nominate an UNDERGRADUATE mentor at a 2- or 4-year college until 2029. Next year it'll be graduate mentors, followed by secondary school mentors.

In my field, Mary Beth Norton, James Merrell, and others developed reputations as undergraduate mentors who sent several students on to academic greatness. But the AHA is for everyone--fire up your nominations, so we history-minded people can save the world, somehow, by celebrating great mentors.

My principal undergraduate mentor was Jon Butler, with significant contributions from several others. I started college wary of majoring in history, and then embraced it fully. I'm grateful to the Yale faculty and TAs who let me bug them in their offices.

Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award – AHA The Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award was established to honor teachers of history who taught, guided, and inspired their students in a way that changed their lives.

History folk: did you have an undergraduate mentor who inspired you? If so, now's a good time to begin reaching out to your schoolmates and think about nominating that person for a Roelker award. Applications open in a few weeks, deadline May 15. www.historians.org/award-grant/...

Klezmer, Irish folk music, reggaeton...I'm sure we can keep going.

Maybe I should teach the popularization of Calypso in my NYC class--Harry Belafonte was from Harlem and Irving Burgie was from Brooklyn...

Then again: classical, minstrelsy, jazz, showtunes, rock, soul, R&B, doo-wop, salsa, disco, punk, funk, boogaloo, the blues, new wave, hiphop, garage house, etc

We never find out whether Angelina was any good at the concertina.

The stylized hired killer politesse of the John Wick movies is also annoying. Furthermore, if his full name were really Jonathan, wouldn’t it be “Jon Wick”?

Evil Unlevin’d

YouTube video by Stephanie Lindholm Dazed & Confused - Ginny Stroud - 4th of July

YouTube it is, then:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=8lMO...