Benjamin L. Carp 🎏
@bencarp.bsky.social
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.
Thank you, Heather, for the firehose of mentions! I also like to inaugurate the holiday season with this piece from @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social about how the same people who invented Santa Claus distorted the Revolutionary history of NYC: ageofrevolutions.com/2022/12/05/m...
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Thank you, Heather, for the firehose of mentions! I also like to inaugurate the holiday season with this piece from @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social about how the same people who invented Santa Claus distorted the Revolutionary history of NYC: ageofrevolutions.com/2022/12/05/m...
NARRATOR (Motoring): What's your price for flight?
November 25, 2025 at 4:03 AM
NARRATOR (Motoring): What's your price for flight?
The Bulldogocracy!
I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
November 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The Bulldogocracy!
This is my Thanksgivingest social media post of all time. Have a great one, everybody! 🦃
Nothing like a big family for reducing stress
November 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This is my Thanksgivingest social media post of all time. Have a great one, everybody! 🦃
Reposted by Benjamin L. Carp 🎏
Brandon Nimmo is the first millionaire to flee Zohran Mamdani's Communist New York City
November 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Brandon Nimmo is the first millionaire to flee Zohran Mamdani's Communist New York City
Say what you will about Trump, he went from “Quiet, Piggy!” to embracing the halal cart guy in record time
November 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Say what you will about Trump, he went from “Quiet, Piggy!” to embracing the halal cart guy in record time
An argument for learning more about typhus, smallpox, etc., during the American Revolution: “Remember the maladies!”
November 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
An argument for learning more about typhus, smallpox, etc., during the American Revolution: “Remember the maladies!”
🎄 Just in time for the holidays, we're doing a departmental elf study today! 🧝 I'm not sure why this is necessary for our college's accreditation--I just do what they tell me.
November 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
🎄 Just in time for the holidays, we're doing a departmental elf study today! 🧝 I'm not sure why this is necessary for our college's accreditation--I just do what they tell me.
I got my son to laugh at this oldie:
A rabbit, a priest and an imam walk into a bar.
The rabbit says, "I think I'm a typo."
A rabbit, a priest and an imam walk into a bar.
The rabbit says, "I think I'm a typo."
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I got my son to laugh at this oldie:
A rabbit, a priest and an imam walk into a bar.
The rabbit says, "I think I'm a typo."
A rabbit, a priest and an imam walk into a bar.
The rabbit says, "I think I'm a typo."
To paraphrase Dennis Hopper in "Speed," in 249 years we've gone from "I regret but I have one life to give for my country" to "Quiet, piggy!"
November 19, 2025 at 12:55 AM
To paraphrase Dennis Hopper in "Speed," in 249 years we've gone from "I regret but I have one life to give for my country" to "Quiet, piggy!"
Something else just occurred to me, thinking about old movies: maybe those conference hotel room interviews were a throwback to a time when academic departments could afford palatial suites with a separate living area? And things contracted…
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 17, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Something else just occurred to me, thinking about old movies: maybe those conference hotel room interviews were a throwback to a time when academic departments could afford palatial suites with a separate living area? And things contracted…
You know who else had a hotel room interview? The hapless wheelman in the original “Thomas Crown Affair”
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
You know who else had a hotel room interview? The hapless wheelman in the original “Thomas Crown Affair”
This is the best dialogue exchange in “Clueless” by far, I love it forever.
Josh: Which I'll bet serves your interests more than theirs. You know, If I ever saw you do anything that wasn't ninety percent selfish, I'd die of shock.
Cher: Oh, that'd be reason enough for me.
Josh: Which I'll bet serves your interests more than theirs. You know, If I ever saw you do anything that wasn't ninety percent selfish, I'd die of shock.
Cher: Oh, that'd be reason enough for me.
November 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This is the best dialogue exchange in “Clueless” by far, I love it forever.
Josh: Which I'll bet serves your interests more than theirs. You know, If I ever saw you do anything that wasn't ninety percent selfish, I'd die of shock.
Cher: Oh, that'd be reason enough for me.
Josh: Which I'll bet serves your interests more than theirs. You know, If I ever saw you do anything that wasn't ninety percent selfish, I'd die of shock.
Cher: Oh, that'd be reason enough for me.
If I…don’t watch the Ken Burns documentary, it’ll definitely annoy all the people who are going to ask me about it for the next few decades.
November 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
If I…don’t watch the Ken Burns documentary, it’ll definitely annoy all the people who are going to ask me about it for the next few decades.
In light of the fact that the victims’ families are suing the Eastman family for gross negligence and fraud, does this read as an attempt to exonerate Edward Eastman in Olivia Nuzzi fashion with fancy maps instead of glamor shots? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
New Videos, Data and Reporting Give a Detailed Account of the Camp Mystic Disaster (Gift Article)
Never-before-published videos, data from smart devices, a crash report and the first interview that Camp Mystic's owners have granted since the July 4 disaster offer the most detailed account yet.
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
In light of the fact that the victims’ families are suing the Eastman family for gross negligence and fraud, does this read as an attempt to exonerate Edward Eastman in Olivia Nuzzi fashion with fancy maps instead of glamor shots? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I’m at the dentist’s office and the guy before me just tipped the hygienist. Neither here nor there I guess, just…new
November 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I’m at the dentist’s office and the guy before me just tipped the hygienist. Neither here nor there I guess, just…new
I guess the billionaires were right!
November 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I guess the billionaires were right!
Brooklyn College as Borderlands, Part MMCCCLVIII…
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Brooklyn College as Borderlands, Part MMCCCLVIII…
Mamdani will be the 7th NYC mayor since 1834 to have been born abroad
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Mamdani will be the 7th NYC mayor since 1834 to have been born abroad
If you starve CUNY for years and do nothing for its students, we will eventually make you lose the same election twice
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
If you starve CUNY for years and do nothing for its students, we will eventually make you lose the same election twice
Good news for people who like nursing home deaths and workplace harassment: you’ll always have a home in Staten Island
November 5, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Good news for people who like nursing home deaths and workplace harassment: you’ll always have a home in Staten Island
Well? Where are my NYC results?
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Well? Where are my NYC results?
This ad made a small part of me hope that Mamdani loses today so that he’ll have time to give a guest lecture in my “History of New York City” class at Brooklyn College in the spring — but on balance I’d rather he be my mayor that a guest lecturer
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
November 4, 2025 at 11:19 AM
This ad made a small part of me hope that Mamdani loses today so that he’ll have time to give a guest lecture in my “History of New York City” class at Brooklyn College in the spring — but on balance I’d rather he be my mayor that a guest lecturer
Reposted by Benjamin L. Carp 🎏
"At a time when the federal government is targeting the communities of color and immigrant communities that CUNY serves, New Yorkers need a mayor who will be a champion for CUNY." Vote
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Opinion: Why Cuomo Would Be a Bad Deal for CUNY - City Limits
"At a time when the federal government is targeting the communities of color and immigrant communities that CUNY serves, New Yorkers need a mayor who will be a champion for CUNY."
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November 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
"At a time when the federal government is targeting the communities of color and immigrant communities that CUNY serves, New Yorkers need a mayor who will be a champion for CUNY." Vote
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