Okay, so there’s nothing official yet, but I’m still excited.
I wrote a paper for my Pennsylvania History course on the relationship between the Molly Maguires and the unionization efforts in PA’s anthracite region. When I turned in my last (what I considered)rough draft, I recieved an A for the paper and a bunch of good comments written on it. I then presented my findings to the class, at which time the professor started saying how interesting and potentially important my findings were. He then asked me for another copy of the paper and asked me to come talk to him about publishing it. He thinks that there is a really good chance to get it published!!!
Okay, so now I am alternating between being excited and leafing through the sources I used just to be sure that I properly cited everything.
Cool!!!
Just be prepared down the road for some PHD hotshot with a list of initials after his name that’s longer than John Holmes hoo-ha to nitpick you to death and complain about the lack of breadth/depth/understanding/interprutation of your souces.
When that happens, I’ll argue 'til I’m out of points then I’ll just claim that any and all points he might win are becuase I’m just a lowly undergrad (and hopefully deflate his overblown ego a bit!).
Congrats! You can officially join the rest of the Published Dopers at our regular Algonquin lunches, where we trade bon mots, toss peanuts at the waiters, trip NY Times reviewers as they walk by, and sonorously read our work out loud to impressed passersby!
Hey, how come I was never invited to one of those Algonquin lunches? Huh? Huh?
Good for you, akennett! I’m really interested in your topic, too - a subject I knew absolutely nothing about until last summer, when someone turned me on to a New York folk/rock band that does a song called “The Ghosts of the Molly Maguires.” I did some cursory web research on the topic because I couldn’t make sense of the song, and I found it fascinating and sad.
Funny, I’m published several times over, and no one ever invited me to any lunches.
Depending on how in-depth you go into any coal or coal mining subtopics related to your main topic, I can offer to review to fact-check or give you a backup.
