Gina G. Bennett, Ph.D.

Writing Mobile Lives, 1500–1700 Cambridge Core - Literary Theory - Writing Mobile Lives, 1500–1700

My Element is out out featuring several #earlymodern mobile lives and open access too. Let me know if you use it in your teaching and if you like it. Woohoo! 🎉 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Home - East Jersey Bound Home page: Scots emigrants to East New Jersey in the 1680s: why did they come, who were they and what became of them?

A new website w/database on the 1680s Scottish migration to East New Jersey is 'live' #earlymodern #VastEarlyAmerica eastjerseybound.scot

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

Opinion | Why DOGE Slashed the National Endowment for the Humanities (Gift Article) Eliminating federal funding for the humanities saves next to no money, but it will cost the American people something precious.

Now they have come for the NEH, and with it my beloved Humanities Tennessee and Chapter 16, where I spent 10 years of my professional life. The fact that it was inevitable in this Orwellian year of 2025 doesn’t make it any less heartbreaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

Barefoot Running and Goat Meat As some of you are aware, in my other life I am a historian working at the moment on a project on maritime history and the role of privateers. It is not often that my love of history and running co…

For no particular reason, an old blog post of mine about "Barefoot Running and Goatmeat" (and yes, I am vegetarian)!

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#Running #Barefoot #RunChat #Privateer #Run #Runner #LowCarb #LowSalt @barefootrunning.bsky.social

Goat meat to keep the cats close and tame enough to keep the rats away! Great post! Mutually beneficial relationship, for sure! 🐐 🏃 🐈 🐀

Opinion | Why DOGE Slashed the National Endowment for the Humanities (Gift Article) Eliminating federal funding for the humanities saves next to no money, but it will cost the American people something precious.

“Americans really like book festivals and local history museums…We especially like it when such gifts are available to everyone, and not just to those who can afford the price of a ticket.” Excellent @margaretrenkl.bsky.social on the high ROI of the NEH. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

Yes! The irony makes me scream into the void between what we, as a nation, have allowed to be taken from us and years it will take to rebound from this fiasco.

URGENT: Save the NEH

NEH funding terminated. Here are some talking points, links, for those in SC but also federal resources. I’m proud to serve on SC Hum Board. Contact any and all to advocate. What impacts one, impacts us all #NEH schumanities.org/advocacy-act...

Parallel map for NEH funding to states. NB that 40% of NEH funding goes directly to the state humanities councils, which do critical community work and which benefits people --culturally and economically-- all across the country. www.neh.gov/impact/states

These rumors have been confirmed, Blueskis.

I am enraged.

Shifting and Permanent States: Experiencing Disability in the Seventeenth-Century British Navy "For the men and boys of the late seventeenth-century British navy, disability was a category of self-definition..."

How did people conceptualize disability in the past?

In the latest for Broadsides, Anna Conner explores disability and identity in C17 naval petitions.
#skystorians #histmed

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Gently, respectfully, placing this posthumously published 1949 view from Bloch…here…

So happy to be connected together again, Annika! @mouseemperor.bsky.social

I know I am a nobody grad student but I’m also a museum worker of ~a decade, & I’m really imploring Big Name historians who will write op-eds & go on msnbc to rail against this EO to be as loud & clear about the people whose lives & work are at stake here as you will abt the ideological warfare

Please join the Department of History for “State of the Field: A Conversation About US History” on April 16 at 4:30 in the John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224). The event will feature Sven Beckert, Martha Jones, and David Waldstreicher.

a group of men in tuxedos and bow ties are drinking and smoking ALT: a group of men in tuxedos and bow ties are drinking and smoking

Be kind to newly minted PhDs of US History. How could they foresee the obstacles they now face? I am so pleased that advisors pointed me towards Atlantic topics. Buy these new US PhD folk their choice from the top shelf. They will need it.

Front cover page of Margot Finn's article, 'Reflections on History Closures'

The new issue of the 'Journal of the British Academy' offers a range of perspectives 'On recent closures and threats of closure in the Humanities and Social Sciences' bit.ly/3FGuPHE

These include "Reflections on History closures' bit.ly/4iIJsc9 by @eicathomefinn.bsky.social

#Skystorians

holding up two signed copies of my book in a gift shop

taking the long way from eastern market to tenleytown part 1(?) 📍USHMM

This post was originally at the 🐦 after my dissertation with support from @profmurdoch.bsky.social @kenyonz.bsky.social, Stephanie Cole, & Christopher Morris at UTArlington; I migrated it 🦋. W editorship of @roperlou.bsky.social & J. Wagner soon some of it will be out there in print!🤞📘📖

Likewise, women maneuvered their networks and the Equivalent Courts to secure lost wages and other compensation that were due them when kin passed away due to illness, battles, or fatal hurricanes like Bess Allen from Fisherrow in 1707.

There’s some debate how many women traveled on the venture. But some noted women travelers appearing my my dissertation are Elizabeth Park, who married Presbyterian minister Archibald Stobo and departed for Panama weeks later. Source: @scotlandspeople.bsky.social

Many women cooked, washed, and provided lodging for coopers, wrights, and carpenters working along the River Clyde who prepared the ships for departure and were paid by Company appointees.

Women also manufactured or contracted to provide large quantities of goods with the Company Directors as inventoried for the venture. Widow Justice was one who was paid for the fabric for ship’s sails.

The idea of a joint-stock migration captured the attention of three elite Scottish women, motivating them to be first in line to subscribe to the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies in 1696.

Given that it is #WomensHistoryMonth & I'm settled into Bsky here's a bit of info on my research. Almost 327 yrs ago ships left #Scotland for Panama. This map from @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social Darien; Spencer Col is a ship-view that travelers saw. It’s the closest we have to understanding their view.

Law against Overcrowding A digital tool for studying the Holocaust through unique, original sources.

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Here are some useful primaries to help support understanding of Act in 1933, via @ushmm.bsky.social To quote one of the best musicals ever, Ragtime, 🎼 “Make them hear you. When they hear you I’ll be with you again…