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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Came home from my Thanksgiving trip to find this in the mail. Thanks to the North Carolina Historical Review for publishing my work!

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Picked up something over the weekend. Thanks to the Florida Book Awards for recognizing my work.

Book Tampa Bay: The Story of an Estuary and Its People with silver medal in Florida Nonfiction from Florida Book Awards

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Just saw an excellent show with the Violent Femmes and the Tallahassee Orchestra at the Word of South Festival. I have to say, though, some of Gen X men suck at concerts. Just talk, talk, talk. Shut up already.

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Just finished this. Powerful work. Suggest it for all.

Cover of Grace Elizabeth Hale’s book In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning.

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Feels like yet another thing we’re losing because a few greedy people won’t be happy until they vacuum up every last dollar.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The Tampa Bay History Center posted my talk from the Florida Conversations series. Had a great time back in September. youtu.be/sjUK1DAPdZw?...

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Florida Conversations: The Story of an Estuary and Its People

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I saw a video on a Windows 98 machine booting the other day and that scan of the A: floppy drive in the boot sequence flooded my mind with memories of my corporate job.

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

For a little sweetness in your feed: getting ready for the school dance.

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Some in Florida are floating the idea of getting rid of property taxes, the main source of revenue for localities. I’m no fan of high taxes, but I think we need some slogans explaining why these are needed. I’ll start. Property Taxes: Because garden hoses aren’t good for fighting fires.

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual. cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I’m traveling, but other than food and gas, I’m buying nothing.

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Got to see the SS United States as it was towed past Boca Raton today on its way to be sunk off the coast near Destin. Like watching a ghost go by.

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I would trust all the promises of AI more if the Facebook account for my book didn’t get the same spam message every day. Seriously, you guys can’t even develop a workable spam blocker for the exact same email? I report it every time.

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Had a great time talking about Tampa’s African American Labor History for students at HCC today. Always honored to be asked to Black History Month events.

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

This hockey face-off tournament is good, but we have to admit it needs an asterisk until without being able (understandably) to have a Russian team.

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I was already rooting for Canada because I love Jon Cooper, Anthony Cirelli, Brandon Hagel, and Brayden Point, but ESPN’s coverage has made me more sure of my choice.

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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This is happening, right now. The great "arribada" (arrival) of mother Olive Ridley sea turtles on the Odisha coast, where they dig sand-nests & lay their eggs, driven by ancient instinct. Heart-lifting, magnificent, moving: part of a geography of hope. 🎞️ by Bivash Pandav via my friend Yuvan Aves.

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

We all know no one goes to work in some high rise to vacation at the Gulf of America.

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I wore a sport coat to work today and I’ve been feeling more focused and productive than normal. Could it really be something or just my imagination?

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I finished building my new shed over the weekend and I had the best time piddling around in it this evening. Now I need to find a hobby that will allow me to do that more often.

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Dripped Out Trade Unionists @uniondrip.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Every union should be echoing this statement.

IUPAT Twitter post:

There are nearly 3 million immigrants in the construction industry, and they deserve the same rights as all other workers. Our union stands with our immigrant members and all working people in this country — an injury to one is an injury to all.

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Apparently he’s British. But one would think any self-respecting Briton would know about know about the guy who made sure he didn’t grow up speaking German.

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I don’t want AI to ever write my grad students’ theses, but I wouldn’t complain if there was a tool to do the title and signature page formatting the grad college is so picky about.

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

This Day in Labor History: February 16, 1931. The Harlan County Coal Operators’ Association reduced wages for miners in that part of eastern Kentucky by 10 percent. In response, the United Mine Workers of America attempted to organize the miners. This started the Harlan County Coal War for 8 years!

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Connor McDavid is a wonder to watch. So fast.

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Sure, your job is stressful. But have you ever considered being a sample person at Costco when a line of people are waiting for you to cut up the food?

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/02/2025

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

How long until he says he is the arbiter of what is degenerate art? And how long after that will Spotify and Pandora and Google music and Apple take to fall in line?

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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Anyhow just saw a full time ntt job for a Lecturer with a salary of $36,300 a year advertised. I made 38,000 as a first year public high school teacher in 2005. But please everyone remember that professors are far removed from the concerns of the working class.

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

“Not Like Us” is a sonic masterpiece and would still be if he replaced every lyric with nonsense words.

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Of course, the talk will include this great Ralph Ellison quote @drderrickewhite.bsky.social pointed me to:

Quote from Ralph Ellison: “But can a people (its faith in an idealized American Creed not-withstanding) live and develop for over three hundred years simply by reacting? Are American Negroes simply the creation of white men, or have they at least helped to create themselves out of what they found around them? Men have made a way of life in caves and upon cliffs; why cannot Negroes have made a life upon the horns of the white man’s dilemma?” (1944)

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

We need two people to lead Environmental Humanities into a future that needs #envhum work more than ever. Please apply 👇

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Doing a Black History Month talk tomorrow night. Talking about Black Floridians. Went through some notes from when I taught History of Black Florida and found this gem from the first day, explaining why I was offering this course. (Can’t remember what kind of mood I was in when I made this.)

PowerPoint slide that says “Why Study the History of Black People in Florida?” Answer: I wanted to.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

This is a place where faculty unions have real capacity to do some good: teach everyone in the bargaining unit what everyone else in the unit does and how our labors are all similar.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

It is bleakly comic that the DOGE-bros were all “We’re gonna slash the woke billions” and then immediately had to go after cancer research because the Dems already gutted arts and humanities funding years ago.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 11/02/2025

This morning, I sent a letter to the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) regarding Elon Musk’s potential conflicts of interest. Within minutes, the White House confirmed receipt. By noon, President Trump fired the Director of OGE. I want to know: Was this to prevent his answer?

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/02/2025

the “administrative state” in practice is a lot of very hard working, practically anonymous people doing the thankless work of making this country run and a drug-addled dipshit is slandering them in order to steal our money for himself

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Does anyone else get a thrill when you delete/file a bunch of emails on your desktop app and then watch them all disappear again when you open the phone app?

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This is the correct response to all popular music, beginning the day you turn forty. I too hope the young people had, and will continue to have fun.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Two weeks ago Chris Rufo responded to a tweet by Will Stancil confirming that, indeed, his anti-DEI work is not about corporate DEI trainings, but about undoing the Civil Rights movement. Just putting this here for the record in case there's any doubt about that.

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This Day in Labor History: February 8, 1887. President Grover Cleveland signed the Dawes Severalty Act into law. The Dawes Act created a process to split up Indian reservations in order to create individual parcels of land and then sell the remainder off to white settlers.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Hard to overstate how important open access to government archives are in a democracy--it is how we hold those in power accountable for their acts. Trump fires head of National Archives www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

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Trump fires archivist of the United States, official who oversees government records

President Trump has fired the nation's top record keeper, Archivist of the United States Colleen J. Shogan.

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