Zachary Bennett

Historian of early America writing about rivers and all that flow through them• Asst. Professor @NorwichNews• PhD @RutgersU • Mainer

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The blurbs are out for my book! Contested Currents: Rivers and the Remaking of New England will be coming out in October
https://t.co/EtXgl92x9I

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@joshshepperd Activists are committed to an ideology above objectivity. Research should be conducted objectively.

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@aliberkidil It seems the mores of online dating have come to academic conferences.

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@Tyler_A_Harper I look forward to you labeling the BDN, PPH, channels 6, 8, and 13 as a “liberal Maine news outlet” in the future, for consistency

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announcement for fellow shoegazers: My Bloody Valentine is back on spotify!

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@aseitzwald @dankennedy_nu Officially, they do not. The UU does not affirm the divinity of Jesus.

[Hadas Weiss @weiss_hadas]

how it feels to get feedback on your paper

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@ThomasSKidd https://t.co/r3kiaO5fV5 I think this article explains it well.

[Matthew H. Young @matthenryyoung]

Know Nothing Party members screaming, crying, throwing up rn.

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@mserunian Wish DFW was around to comment on this

[Garaa @garaa_arc]

Michael Pollan reveals how the introduction of caffeine completely changed human history and consciousness.

"Before caffeine, it was a very different world and a very different consciousness. People were drunk a lot of the time, buzzed almost all of the time because it was safer than water"

"Water was really how you got diseases. If you fermented things, even low alcohol, it killed a lot of the microbes. So people, even kids, drank hard cider for breakfast"

"Tea, chocolate, and coffee all arrive in the same decade in England, and things start to change... no one ate or drank boiling water or hot beverages before"

"Boiling it made it much safer. This gave this incredible public health boost to these places, and then you have the drug that fosters a kind of more linear, rational, focused way of thinking"

"People in the 1600s started writing about it saying, 'Wow, we have this new civil and sober drink that we can use.' And that, I think, makes possible things like the Industrial Revolution"

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This book has been part of my life for at least a decade, and today is the final chapter: it’s publication day for Contested Currents: Rivers and the Remaking of New England!

[Richard Meyer @RichardMeyerDC]

China consumed more coal in the last four years (2022–2025) than the entire world consumed throughout the 19th century.

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The imagery on the frontispiece of Haiti's inaugural 1801 constitution is worth appreciating.

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@dbessner that job ads preclude anyone outside that ideological/methodological approach from getting a job in those fields. How unlike the communits to be intolerant to differing opinions...

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@JacobAShell I've been asked to review several articles that are clearly from graduate students unready to publish. This won't have a good effect on scholarship.

[Alfian Sibarani @alfiansibarani]

Africa’s explosive growth in cities.

The continent’s urban centers are set to expand by 19mn people annually, or by nearly two Londons a year. But urbanization is not following a familiar path.

https://t.co/4PG2z9vHJU

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@Tyler_A_Harper Contested Currents is better 😉

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

‘Goodbye’ is an alteration of “God be with you.”

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The first assignment in my survey classes is to write a paper that cites a physical book in our library, for exactly this reason.

[Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis]

Johns Hopkins economics professor Steve Hanke writes in a WSJ letter to editor that many of his students don't know where the campus library is: