@dhowlett1692
Adjunct at George Mason University and University of Richmond; GMU History PhD researching early American disability and religion; Formerly doing DH at RRCHMN; GWU Fencing coach; Ask Me Anything coordinator at r/AskHistorians 🤺🏳️🌈 dhowlett1692.com
For today's AMA on AskHistorians, we have Stephen Neufeld discussing Mexican necropolitics, animal death, and blood sports! Come check out some bull fighting history! @unmpress.bsky.social
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Since posting this, I've gotten 5 more AMAs scheduled so there will be histories of yuppies, Rolling Stone, ax murder, and more coming soon!
We would really, really like to highlight the scale of Dan's achievement here. We've always hosted some great AMAs, but Dan has been single-handedly responsible for a huge outreach campaign to authors and forging ongoing partnerships with scholarly presses.
Ok, this is kind of wild to think about
UNC Press has been one of most active partners in this effort and so many great AMAs have come from this! Its been fantastic bringing one of my favorite catalogs to more people! With more coming soon!
As one of the university presses lucky enough to work with Dan on these: WE LOVE ASKHISTORIANS!
Our historians genuinely have a wonderful time doing it & the reach & depth of engagement is A+. Grateful to Dan & the @askhistorians.bsky.social team for helping great history find a big audience.
We have a ton more lined up covering bullfighting, rum, sorcery, sex, tomatoes, and more! Catch up on all our past AMAs here: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori... and feel free to reach out if you have a monograph coming out! We are always scheduling AMAs!
This is also an effort dependent on the entire @askhistorians.bsky.social team from building a space through content moderation that scholars see as a credible venue to do outreach on, to asking questions of our guests, and to our ever-present, real human @gankom.bsky.social BlueSky-ing away
We're also now working with a few university presses to bring authors to our audience, and this spring is an embarrassment of riches for new books and AMAs coming soon! Users come to AskHistorians because they want to learn about the past and I love helping them find out what's new in history
What's been popular? 20th century US political and military history, the easy answer for history on the internet. AMAs help us diversify our crowdsourced Q&A LGBTQ+ history, Black history, women's history, African history, and more were all popular- our users take the opportunity to be curious!
Today marks 1 year since the first Ask Me Anything (AMA) for AskHistorians in our push to very actively recruit guests, and where are we now? Today is the 90th AMA in that effort, helping us cross the thresholds of 35k upvotes, 8k comments, and 15k link shares in that year (and ~10m views)!
Today on @askhistorians.bsky.social we have @m-r-glass.bsky.social joining us to talk about his new book Cracked Foundations: Debt and Inequality in Suburban America @pennpress.bsky.social
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Come check out today's AMA!
The inherent argument of Einstein is AI can do school for you so why do work yourself to have the credential, when the credential is inherently supposed to mean you're capable of intellectual effort
AIs pitch themselves as shortcuts and entirely miss the point of doing anything
The thing about AI cheating that offends me is making your coursework "fill in the blank with AI text" is supremely lazy. I grade mostly on effort/engagement through reflection and process-based assignments. AI can't do that so its easy to spot
I absolutely have students mentally cursing at me for how much I enforce anti-AI plagiarism policies, but that's a fundamental misunderstanding of why you're in school. There's surely a lot of blame for universities and how they sell themselves to students for that misunderstanding too
Remember, this guy then killed an MIT professor while they were stumbling to catch up
My colleague John Turner's biography of Joseph Smith is a riveting portrait of America's most successful religious entrepreneur—and he's paired it with thirty detailed podcast episodes. lincolnmullen.com/blog/john-tu...
The Atlantic’s in-house historian, Jake Lundberg, is answering questions about the history of print media in the United States, his career as a historian, and the relationship between media, politics, and culture. Ask him anything today on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
Today on @askhistorians.bsky.social we have an Ask Me Anything with Jake Lundberg, in-house historian for @theatlantic.com, on media, politics, and culture! Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
(For all my fellow former Catholic school kids) We have an AMA with @tinevanosselaer.bsky.social for her book Apparition Fever: Observing the Virgin Mary in Belgium from @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social! Come check it out!
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Karin Wulf (@kawulf.bsky.social) writes about Martha Washington as a founder in her own right, stepping into public life before there was any blueprint for what that role was supposed to be.
Between this and the story about the ice agents who ate at a Mexican restaurant and then arrested some of its workers when they were done, it's a reminder that these people reject even the most basic social agreements of hospitality and of helping others. They're sociopaths.
I might need to change good examples of AMA answers...
Absolutely top-tier AMA answers are getting handed out like candy in here, come ask more questions so @historybrian.bsky.social never gets to leave.
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Today on @askhistorians.bsky.social we have an AMA with @historybrian.bsky.social for his new book Brown and Blue from @uncpress.bsky.social
Come check it out!
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"This is Mia, 7 years old -- 'I don't want to be in this place. I want to be in my school'" -- Walkinshaw confronts Lyons with letters written by kids being detained by ICE
Ken Noe is a great scholar and even better person. Go pepper him with Civil War related questions.
