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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏
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Historian of Early America, Brooklyn College & Graduate Center, CUNY. Leading AHA wit. Latest AmRev book: "The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution" 🔥 Dad, Mets fan, fantasy reader
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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · Jul 21
Here I am, as the Scorpions once foretold.
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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · 5h
Well, that’s true, and I haven’t looked at it yet, but I was guessing that a book about intellectual origins might have the proponents having to counter antislavery ideas
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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · 5h
I gottchu buddy: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery — Harvard University Press
A landmark account of the origins of American slavery, revealing how ancient Roman ideas were used to defend the establishment of a slave empire in the English Atlantic world.The period from 1550 to 1...
www.hup.harvard.edu
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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · 4d
My boomer dad’s best friend once told me that growing up in the NYC outer boroughs, everyone knew two things about every family in the community—what the dad did during World War II, and what baseball team they rooted for.

We used to be a whole nation of antifascists (mostly)
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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 4d
Your grandfathers didn’t storm Normandy so you could be afraid of the word antifascist or “antifa”
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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · 5d
On a road trip, my son requested a Hall & Oates song and then speculated that he didn’t know any others. I predicted correctly (as I put on a playlist) that he’d know six more. Exactly correct.
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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · 5d
Son played on piano tonight: Root Beer Rag, Hedwig’s Theme, Gymnopedie 3, Madrid, Graze the Roof, Take On Me, the LOTR theme, That’s All, Runaway, Dance Monkey, Viva La Vida, I’m Blue, and Bittersweet Symphony
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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · 5d
Ah, I see the pattern now. Hoping a Canadian will rescue you. (I think Helfer is American now though)
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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · 5d
Has “raising ‘em right” been taken yet?
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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · 5d
It’s good to have some minimal standards
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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · 5d
This popped up randomly in my feed and prompted a follow
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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · 5d
Yes, but since the price of freedom is eternal vigilance, there’s plenty of post-tenure review
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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · 6d
The original article does address um, a version of this at the very end: theonion.com/mr-autumn-ma...
Mr. Autumn Man Walking Down Street With Cup Of Coffee, Wearing Sweater Over Plaid Collared Shirt
BOSTON—The twigs and acorns crunching pleasurably beneath his boots, Mr. Autumn Man Dennis Clemons, 32, reportedly strolled down Massachusetts Avenue on Wednesday wearing a gray sweater over a plaid c...
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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · 6d
It's that time of year!
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The Onion @theonion.com · 14d
Mr. Autumn Man Walking Down Street With Cup Of Coffee, Wearing Sweater Over Plaid Collared Shirt https://theonion.com/mr-autumn-man-walking-down-street-with-cup-of-coffee-1819574012/
Mr. Autumn Man Walking Down Street With Cup Of Coffee, Wearing Sweater Over Plaid Collared Shirt
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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · 6d
The Venn diagram where “island” is both a relationship attachment style and a kitchen layout feature
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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · 6d
“I'm hooked and I can't stop starin'…”
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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · 8d
This was a non-insignificant chunk of my graduate education
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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · 9d
“Kruse Control: A Life of Self-Restraint”
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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · 9d
Immortality!
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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · 10d
“Kruse Control: Life behind the Wheel”
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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · 13d
It’s in my calendar, I always do it on the 10th
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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · 14d
Ah, the Monty Python Dead Parrot sketch…
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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · 14d
Kipo was a great show (not only for this reason) 🐆💕
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Bill Wolkoff @billwearsties.bsky.social · 14d
As a writer, I strive to always relfect our world somehow, esp in fantasy and sci fi. In Kipo, I wrote about a fictional dystopian Los Angeles that LGBTQ+ kids are very much a part of, bc it reflects the real LA we based it on. LGBTQ+ kids exist. Trans kids exist. That shouldn't be controversial.
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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · 14d
Family first…
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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · 14d
And here I thought “reply guy” was generally a thankless endeavor
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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · 16d
The queen’s rook? [j/k]
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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · 17d
Well the Mets may have played themselves out of the season, but my son went 3-0 at Citi Field (he is 10-0 or 11-0 lifetime) and I went 4-0, and we do love being fans together (now he knows the true meaning!). If anyone wants to fund him for all available home games going forward... #LGM
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