Zachary Bennett

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

[Zachary Bennett @ZMBennett]

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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@jgmahoney just look at the names on the walls once you enter the Boston Public Library

[Jacob Shell @JacobAShell]

Remineder that mid 20th century “urban renewal” ethos stemmed from imagination of WW2 aerial bombardment campaigns.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

"Would you like me to add a 96th thesis?"

[Zachary Bennett @ZMBennett]

@LaocoonofTroy As someone who went through seven years of graduate training in American history, it was understood that Zinn was something you probably read in high school, and was afforded a comensurate level of respect by academic standards.

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

A key point @jennfrey makes here is that despite hand-waiving about the student-customer model, the humanities are often cut even when student demand is high. Heard the same from folks at Chicago last year—cuts to the classics despite an explosion in classics interest nationally.

[G.S. Quay @hemingquay]

Augustine’s Confessions

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"In this engaging and original new book, Zachary M. Bennett takes readers on a journey through New England’s rivers over centuries of colonization, encouraging us to see the region’s waterways as sites and sources of power. A marvelous achievement." —Andrew Lipman

[Zachary Bennett @ZMBennett]

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

[Zachary Bennett @ZMBennett]

Great article on America's river restoration revolution:
"Last year, more sections of the country’s rivers were reconnected thanks to dam removals than at any other time in history" https://t.co/Rj6JGBoeqy

[Zachary Bennett @ZMBennett]

@tomagain @CharlesCMann Yes, see Stephen Ambrose and Doris Kearns Goodwin. I think Lepore wouldn’t disagree that she stopped being a serious academic historian a while ago.

[Reuben Rodriguez @ReubenR80027912]

If a rehabilitation of Nixon happens, it means Boomer liberalism is truly over

There is no figure Boomer liberals hated more than Nixon & a massive amount of their movement (vaporization if the press, anti-war) all comes from this exp of their formative yrs & endless retelling

[Zachary Bennett @ZMBennett]

A lot to think about here. African slaves raise their hands in supplication to Christ in this mural of the French slave ship Le Saphir (1741) https://t.co/MsbBlAjNHI

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@Legal_Fil @BrandonWarmke or, rebranding majors in a way that makes them seem more like job training

[Zachary Bennett @ZMBennett]

“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”
― John Milton, Areopagitica

[Zachary Bennett @ZMBennett]

@JacobAShell and turn our backs on the Puritan founders of the city looking for a "new ark"??

[Zachary Bennett @ZMBennett]

@ShadowbanSlam @GregMooreNH @jeremykauffman as someone from the region, NH is the only of the 3 that is firmly ensconced within Boston's economic orbit. NH might be in the sweet spot of suburbia that avoids the worst aspects of urbanism.

[Zachary Bennett @ZMBennett]

Was our greatest president "Ol' Zach" Taylor? I have to admit, I'm a bit biased on this one.
https://t.co/6ZdKQVISOQ

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@MichaelRapp I knew one of the 2014 Pulitzer history prize committee members who picked Alan Taylor's Internal Enemy. She told me the book was selected for "highlighting the agency of enslaved people," when that wasn't really what the book was about.

[Zarathustra @zarathustra5150]

Dostoevsky captures the essence of the modern, downwardly mobile progressive activist, 150 years early. A conviction of higher destiny, no path to reach it, and a misery that converts into hatred of the surrounding world. Politics is downstream of psychology, and this is the psychology.

[Zachary Bennett @ZMBennett]

@NickBurns The Barbarous Years isn't without its problems--it's probably Bailyn's weakest book. Much like scholarship on the origins of African American culture, the places people came from across the ocean are discernable and often mattered.