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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 · 01/05/2025

This is haunting me a bit because it could have been stopped if those Tampa juries had listened to those girls.

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Turned out that he was convicted in Alabama several years later for SA on a number of women. One story said he had been linked to numerous cases across the southeast. Apparently did his assaults while on temp duty assignments.

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Since the paper identified his address as near where I grew up, my curiosity got the better of me, and I looked for whatever I could find from other newspapers about him across time. Had an uncommon name.

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I am having the hardest time wrapping my head around the idea that a onetime senator from Florida – Florida! – would say anything to dampen tourism.

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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

YouTube video by Tampa Bay History Center

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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 · 07/03/2025

Someone save this as a first line for a history of these years.

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Where are the FIRE guys? Oh yeah…

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

Property taxes: because you can’t drive grandma to the hospital and do CPR at the same time.

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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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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I’ve been reading Christine Dunbar-Hester’s Oil Beach and liking it quite a bit. Lissa Wadewitz’s The Nature of Borders might also make for great discussion, too, since it deals with US-Canadian fishing laws and Native usages of the salmon fishery.

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I support Somali-Americans @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

Isn’t his framing of this as an “ethnic rivalry” just another way of repeating Russian talking points?

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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

My mother built into me a habit of waiting for the mail. She would say, “let’s wait for the mail to come,” before we would set off to go shopping or anything when I was a child.

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

Beyond the horror of this for these individuals, this is a cut off your nose to spite your face action in South Florida. So much of the service economy depends on Haitian workers down here.

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

This guy’s savings model likely calls for sinking the navy’s hospital ships and banning the Air Force from delivering food aid.

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

Here’s a scene from my ivory tower upbringing that popped up the other day. Maybe we should make this a thing.

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

Just installed a shed. Now my feed is filled with ads for sheds. Not even for shed accessories. This is the best they can do?

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

The odd thing is the GOP in places like Florida have wholeheartedly embraced the toll model when it comes to highway construction. Not just as a revenue stream - mostly that -but as an argument for dealing with congestion.

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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

Give it time. In a couple decades you’ll know.

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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 · 18/02/2025

And how many of these were experienced veterans who had transitioned to civilian workforce? Seems it would be especially high in this field.

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

Would scream to me that he’s overcharging for the work.

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