Bonnie Soper @bsopes.bsky.social Historian of early modern Scotland. PhD from Stony Brook University.
Hooper @hooperhooper.bsky.social UNC History PhD candidate. Historian of gay rights activism and lesbian-feminism, student activism in the gay liberation era, and the 1970s South. NC born/raised/now. he/him ⚣
Tyler Borchers @tylerborchers.com SVP, Strategy & Operations. Building products, growing audiences and driving revenue. Previously TIME and VICE News. Posting about media, technology and AI.
Website: https://tylerborchers.com/
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tylerborchers/
Jake Ruddiman @ruddiman.bsky.social A historian of Revolutionary America at Wake Forest
Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social Puts the 'fun' in 'executive dysfunction' | Educational developer, writer, historian, abolitionist | Higher ed, critical pedagogy, C18/19th, and baseball-esp. minor leagues | Wrote: https://wvupressonline.com/node/823 | Hope, always. | he/him.
Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social Host of Crooked Media’s “What A Day.” Contributing writer at the New York Times. Previously: host of The Argument. Go Blue means Go the University of Michigan.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Lucas @luminouscow.bsky.social BA GWU '24
MA W&M '25
Indigenous History
Race-Making in the Northeast
Sharon Ann Murphy @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social Financial historian. Mom. Soccer player. Spouse. Wahoo. Mets fan. Archive rat. Avid reader. Wino. Jersey girl. Runner. World traveler. A wee bit batty.
Massachusetts Historical Society @mhs1791.bsky.social First Historical Society in the US, founded 1791.
Research library, programs, exhibitions & online resources.
www.masshist.org
Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social PhD Candidate in US History • Writing on C19 Newspapers • Appellate Lawyer- K @keanhistory.bsky.social @keanhistory.bsky.social
Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social Historian, writer. Professor of History, Swarthmore College. Most recent: MURDER IN A MILL TOWN (Oxford UP). Rep'd by Mullane Literary Associates.- S Sarah Wells @spw4s.bsky.social Digital humanities person at UVA, curious cook, figuring out how to do a hand stand
Gentleman Scientist @sciencewannabe.bsky.social Gentleman scientist wannbe. BLM. Studied earthquakes back when Plate Tectonics was young. North Carolina. Tar Heels. New Orleans. Linux. He/his.
Karol Mullaney-Dignam @historiankarol.bsky.social ▪︎ Cultural, Social, Public Historian
▪︎ Associate Professor @ulhistory.bsky.social
▪︎ Ireland 🇮🇪
Ryan Hendrickson @imaginaryhistories.bsky.social "You ever feel like nothin' good was ever gonna happen to you?"
"Yeah, and nothing did. So what?"
Archivist at Boston University for ~26 years, he/they
https://www.imaginaryhistories.com
Daniel Lieberman @damfino11.bsky.social Traveler, art lover, polyglot, cook, yoga student. Curator of an #ImaginaryMuseum
"If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it."
— Stan Laurel
uptownJimmy @uptownjimmy.bsky.social code, music, things of this nature
Gina G. Bennett, Ph.D. @ginahist.bsky.social Historian of Transatlantic World; empire, economy, migration, & gender. Burned by the 🐦⬛but happy to give 🦋a try. Book Review Editor World History Connected. ❤️📚🗺️🌍🌎
Michael König @08mikowitsch15.bsky.social Historian/Archaeologist; #museum & #SocialMedia - head of visitor service and events @unesco Roman Monuments Augusta Treverorum
Jeff Ostler @jostler.bsky.social Semi-retired history professor, University of Oregon. Thinking about genocide.
Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app John 3:16 | Founder of The Thurman Perry Foundation | Women’s Incarceration Expert | Political Commentator | Author: BAD GIRLS (coming soon)(Hachette) | Epidemiologist | Words: @WashingtonPost @ESSENCE #writingcommunity
https://linktr.ee/gabrielleperrymph
David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social HS Humanities | Social Studies Dept. Head | #IB History and IB TOK | #bced, BC 🇨🇦| Unto the fundamentalists a stumbling block & unto the secularists foolishness.
🌎📍Cascadia Subduction Zone
Unni Eikeseth @unnieikeseth.bsky.social Science teacher Education @NTNU 🇳🇴 🧪 | Non fiction author Krigens laboratorium (2026), Vårt kjemiske liv (2023), Finding places (2020) /Jakten på stedsansen (2018) | Former TV host & Science journalist @NRK https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/unni.eikeseth
Elizabeth Reese @elizamreese.bsky.social Historian of grief and public memory | Senior Manager of Interpretation at Woodlawn & Pope-Leighey House | Writing about Edwin Booth, celebrity, and grief | Author of Marquis de Lafayette Returns (History Press, 2024) |
www.elizabethmreese.com
Lisa Maruca @lmaruca.bsky.social C18 English professor, student of old and new media, SHARPist, tree hugger, dog lover, mom, cook, eater, hiker, reader. Not in that order.
Jonathan Mercantini @jmercant.bsky.social Associate Provost and Professor of History at Kean University. Bills/Capitals/Commanders
@zenburger.bsky.social @zenburger.bsky.social ESOP fan, CFO, Mountain Biker, serial hobbyist, Habitat for Humanity, and pseudo-chef. 🧪🌱🧮🚵🏻♂️👨🏼🌾👨🏼🍳🌳✂️ 🇨🇦
Rebecca L. Davis @historydavis.bsky.social Author of FIERCE DESIRES: A NEW HISTORY OF SEX AND SEXUALITY IN AMERICA, publisher of the Carnal Knowledge newsletter, and co-host of This Is Probably a Really Weird Question, a podcast about sexual health and history.
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
@carolynzola.bsky.social @carolynzola.bsky.social Historian of gender, race, and labor in eighteenth and nineteenth century North America. Writing a book about huckster women.
Scottie Buehler @midwifehistory.bsky.social Midwife and historian of medicine| reproductive justice| PhD #uclahist | asst prof. opinions my own
Book in-progress: “Reproducing Midwives in France & the Atlantic World”
Cat lover and bibliophile
Kyle Roberts @kyleroberts6.bsky.social Scholar of Atlantic World Religion, Public History, and Digital Humanities. Executive Director of the Congregational Library & Archives, Boston - https://www.congregationallibrary.org/
Hidetaka Hirota @hidehirota.bsky.social Historian of US immigration. Teaches at UC Berkeley. Vice President of @iehs.bsky.social. Author of Expelling the Poor (Oxford). Writing books on foreign contract labor law and on transpacific Japanese migration.
Schoeppner @schoeppner.bsky.social Avant-garde curmudgeon. Historian of race and migration in 19thC US. Writing a book about the invention of illegal immigration.
Brendan P. O'Malley @bomalley500.bsky.social Public school teacher in Worcester, MA. DSA🌹. Holden DTC Chair. Historian of immigration politics in the 19th-century US. NYC history. CUNY GC PhD. Sloppy indie rock drummer. MA politics. He/Him/His. Diss topic essay: https://bit.ly/4fPPJ5n
Julie Novkov @jnovkov.bsky.social Academic (poli sci, law, and US political development), administrator, gymnastics fan, resident of upstate New York. Go Great Danes! Views expressed here are solely my personal opinions. Born at 321 PPM CO2. #polisky #skystorians
Amanda Frost @amandafrost.bsky.social Professor of immigration & citizenship at UVA Law. Author of YOU ARE NOT AMERICAN: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers (Beacon Press, 2021). Forthcoming book on the history of birthright citizenship in the USA. Civil rights lawyer.
Rachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social Historian of U.S. politics, law, & constitutionalism. Director, Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State. Book out fall 2026: The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History. Preorder: https://a.co/d/05KfbAa4
rachelshelden.com
Connie Thomas @conniethomas.bsky.social Historian of early US migration politics & American identity
Lecturer in US History @UCL.ac.uk
Comms @branchuk.bsky.social
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social prof at UNC
⚽️getting REALLY into professional women's soccer ⚽️
John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social Historian of migration and citizenship at Ohio University Chillicothe - author of Stranger Citizens: Migrant Influence and National Power in the Early American Republic
EricSchlereth.bsky.social @ericschlereth.bsky.social Historian of North America and the early United States. Author of a couple books, Quitting the Nation (https://bit.ly/3HS2Z8W) and An Age of Infidels (https://bit.ly/4br3EvT). Jacques Pépin super fan.
Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social Historian - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana https://democracyamericana.com (also available in German: https://steady.page/de/demokratie-americana/posts) - Website: https://www.thomaszimmer.online/
CJA Bates @cjabates.bsky.social Retired Deputy Head. Current PhD student at Edinburgh University writing on ‘Jefferson’s Special Relationship: England and the Anglo-Virginian, 1743-1826.’
History Today @historytoday.com 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅’𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒆. Try 3 issues for £5 at http://historytoday.com/subscribe
Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social Senior Fellow | German Maritime Museum
Gerda Henkel Research Scholarship
Research Coordinator (on leave) | Prize Papers Project
Lecturer Early Modern History & Games | Oldenburg University
Founder Gamelab Oldenburg | Games in School
Sara Caputo @saracaputo.bsky.social History Assistant Prof. & Director of Studies at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. Histories of maritime labour, mapping, and medicine (Britain, France, Spain, & Italy).
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-sara-caputo
Dr. Sarah Donovan @plottingpapist.bsky.social Catholic | Historian studying 18th cent. extralegal violence in Atlantic World at W&M | Brockport & Lycoming alum | Writing center aficionado | Dog Mom
Tanner Ogle @twogle.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Texas A&M, British Atlantic, Religion, Revolutions, Jacobitism, Politics, and Generational Memory
Edward Jones Corredera @edjonesc.bsky.social Historian - UNED | New book out: Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America (OUP) | FRHistS & FRSA | Past: Max Planck Institute, Cambridge & LSE
Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social UChicago. Early American history; colonialism and empire; legal history; history of political thought. https://www.daraghjgrant.com
Ciaran O'Neill @ciaranon.bsky.social Historian at TCD, interested in Ireland and Empire, Public History, and lots of other things. Co-lead for Trinity's Colonial Legacies.
Karly Kehoe @karlykehoe.bsky.social Professor of History & Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Communities. Working on issues & legacies of migration, religion, & empire. Committed to science diplomacy & freedom and responsibility in science.
https://www.smu.ca/history/karly-kehoe.html
Josh Smith @smithjj.bsky.social Historian of libraries, books and politics in 18th/19thC Britain and US | AHRC/SGSAH PhD from StirUni | Prev RA on Eighteenth-Century Libraries Online and Books and Borrowing (https://borrowing.stir.ac.uk/)| Volunteer guide @ Leighton Library, Dunblane
Nicolai von Eggers @nicolaivoneggers.bsky.social Intellectual historian, Political theorist | Leader of research project ’The Republic of Newsletters’ | Republicanism, fascism, democracy - from the 18th century to our contemporary condition
Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social Humboldt fellow at Bamberg, FRHistS | Historian of early modern French global commerce - political/economic/social/maritime history 🇫🇷🌍🏳️🌈 | Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France out now - download for free http://t.ly/NMc17
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social Time-lag accumulator. Professor of History at NC State University. I write about church & state in the long eighteenth century Atlantic world.
The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social A peer-reviewed Taylor & Francis academic journal exploring the British Empire, the Commonwealth, and wider colonialism.
EIC @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social
AE @yiannicart.bsky.social
BRE @evansmithhist.bsky.social
CDE @jonasgjerso.bsky.social
Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (Dr. Apps formerly the teacher Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social Research Associate Teaching Indigenous Histories and Perspectives in Schools @ Uni of Sheffield | Doctorate, global goods at c17th Lauderdale-era Ham House | Global/Atlantic world histories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries | Former Teacher |
Herbert Brewer @ducorkid.bsky.social Professor of African Diaspora History, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland | ⚽️ enthusiast
Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social PhD candidate in the history of finance at Princeton and a contributing editor at the Financial Times. The Almighty Dollar from Crown Currency available May 19! https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634502/the-almighty-dollar-by-brendan-greeley/
Adrian Finucane @adrianfinucane.bsky.social Historian of the Atlantic World. Views my own.
Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social Early Modernist, Prof UEA; Historical Lead, Gloucester Project & Co-Director, Hakluyt Project; Chair of Society for Nautical Research; Director Shipwrecks & Maritime Heritage Research Centre
Jeremy Land @jeremyland.bsky.social Econ and Biz Historian of the Early Modern World, including but not limited to trade, war, and state capacity. Researcher at Uni Helsinki, Meetings Coordinator of the Econ Hist Assoc, and Exec. Director of @socscihistory.blsky.social. More: jeremyland.org
Rothermere American Institute @raioxford.bsky.social The RAI is a Department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the interdisciplinary and comparative study of the USA. Check out our podcast, The Last Best Hope with our Director, Professor Adam Smith!
https://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/
Muireann McCann @muireannsmccann.bsky.social PhD from EUI History interested in 19thC Ireland, Paris, Rome, migration, Catholicism and revolution (She/her)
Nicole O’Byrne @nobyrne.bsky.social Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick. President of the Canadian Law and Society Association. Witness to Yesterday podcaster. Proud dog mom.
Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social Historian of C18th & C19th Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia. Research Fellow at ANU. Main research - provenance reports for repatriation. Quaker.
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/gareth-knapman
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-6659
Mirjam Haehnle @mirjamhaehnle.bsky.social Early modern historian @ghilondon.bsky.social
Currently thinking about how to write history in times of climate crisis.
Also: Early modern utopias / Historical time experiences / Environmental history of the British Empire
Mairi Cowan @historianmairi.bsky.social Historian at the University of Toronto. Studies medieval Europe, early modern North America, and contemporary pedagogy. Also cooks, knits, and sings.
Author of https://www.mqup.ca/possession-of-barbe-hallay--the-products-9780228014041.php
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal
The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social The Prize Papers Project is dedicated to the study and digitization of the Prize Papers collection stored at The National Archives, UK. It is based at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, and the National Archives, UK.
Learn more: www.prizepapers.de
Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social Prof of eighteenth-century studies in York | material culture studies, women’s work and the Atlantic world | print culture & dress history | trying at social media
📚Novels, Needleworks & Empire https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300270785/novels-needleworks-a
David Wilson @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social Historian working on legal and environmental history within context of colonialism & oceans / lakes, esp. piracy, fishing, & marine science. Current focus: Law, Science, and the British Colonial Fisheries Advisory Committee. Senior Lecturer @ Strathclyde.
A W original @alworiginal.bsky.social DPhil candidate LMU Munich, Amerika-Institut | historian, early America and 1790s BritAm diplomatic history | British influence in early Am foreign policy | formerly 🇯🇵🇩🇪
Daniel Johnson @danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social Theology and Worship Studies programme leader at London School of Theology. Researching evangelical hymns, slavery, and abolition. Infrequent guitarist. Views mine
Hannah Kaemmer @hannahmgk.bsky.social postdoc @mcneilcenter; 17th c English architecture, empire, and environment; forts and engineering; semi-colons
J.P. Wilson @historyjip.bsky.social History PhD Student at University of South Carolina. Focus: Globalizing small ports in Maritime Early America.
Dachshund dad; mediocre fiddle player; sea shanty enjoyer
Vera-Simone Schulz @verasimoneschulz.bsky.social at the crossroads of African, Islamic, European art histories and critical museology; co-convener of "Planetary Patchwork", "Material Migrations", and "Plants in Africa and the Global South: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies and Aesthetics"
Cameron Roman @cdroman.bsky.social Oneida Nation, MKE born and raised
PhD Candidate @ Marquette University, Necropolitics, Decolonial Theory, and other fun topics for Thanksgiving dinner
Rudy Leon, editor @rudydoesbooks.bsky.social I edit and index cookbooks and provide indexing and developmental, line, and copyediting services for scholarly materials. I also coach, focusing on supporting early career faculty successfully publish.
http://rudyleon.com
M.L. Cherry @historycherry.bsky.social Early American historian; native plant enthusiast and birder; luddite who's still figuring out this platform.
Aaron Fountain @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social Historian (PhD) / Author / Freelancer / Video Editor
My book: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469691824/high-school-students-unite/
aaronfountainjr.com
Jonathan S. Jones @jonathansjones.bsky.social Historian 🗃️ | US Civil War era, History of Medicine | My book *Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America’s First Opioid Crisis* is now out from UNC Press, tinyurl.com/opiumslavery | proud #firstgen | jonathansjones.net
Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social Books, cats, politics and the occasional fandom
Emily Shaver Kay (she/her) @emilykay24.bsky.social 27. Public Historian w/ MA from Bowling Green State University & BS in Geology from University of TN Knoxville. Also a native Appalachian, nerdfighter, reader, gamer, cat enthusiast, and insufferable Swiftie & boygenius fan. DFTBA! 💫
Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social English Professor at UTampa. Early Americanist now researching Romantasy! Take my survey: t.ly/4JufY. Author of Stripped & Script: Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution: https://www.umasspress.com/9781625344328/stripped-and-script/.
Nina Lamal @ninalamal.bsky.social Early modern historian ☞ Archive dweller, book lover, coffee-addict ☞ Book: Italian communication on the Revolt in the Low Countries (1566-1648) ☞ Edition: Letters of Suriano, the first Venetian ambassador in The Dutch Republic (1616-1623)
Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social Historian of slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Africa. Curates #slaveryarchive. Visit my website analuciaaraujo.org
Juan José Ponce Vázquez @jjponcevazquez.bsky.social Historian, sevillano, and USian. Spain, LatAm, Caribe & Atlantic. Opinions are my own. Author of Islanders and Empire. He/Him/Él. Nick Fury of the Spanish Bureaucratic Legal Universe.
Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social Historian 🗃️| Associate Professor.
Books: Harvard UP; 2026 The New Press.
Bylines: Conversation; WaPo; Guardian.
She/her 🌈 | Personal account
Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social Historian at Brown University: https://history.brown.edu/people/seth-e-rockman Author of _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_ Nov. 2024, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo237040605.html
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social
Larry Cebula @larrycebula.bsky.social "The Lightning Rod of Weirdness." Public historian, bicyclist, noted bon vivant. Taking a break from politics so if I unfollow you that's why.
Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social Historian.
Author, Methodist Connections: Early American Religion in the Revolutionary Atlantic World (forthcoming, Cornell UP).
Now researching global history of religion + soccer.
Editor, Journal of Mormon History.
Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social Historian of France, the Atlantic world, language, food. Squirrelly cyclist, slowfooted defenseman, working dad. Worried about the 21st century.
https://utoronto.academia.edu/PaulCohen
Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social Brown postdoc writing a book on the American Revolution in female millennial pop culture for St. Martin’s www.rebeccabrennergraham.com
Molly Warsh @mwarsh.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh. World History, Atlantic History, Iberian Empires and many other things, too. Editor, Journal of Early Modern History. Author, American Baroque (Omohundro/UNC Press, 2018)