Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social Settler Scholar
Assoc. Prof & Director of #PublicHistory
University of Cincinnati
Western & Indigenous History
Current Research: Photography, Apsáalooke, Wyandot(te), Rondo, Digital Archives
http://pronoun.is/she
Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social Historian, novelist, gardener, cook
ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social cultural & environmental historian. #bchist and #cdnhist and #envhist. landscape, mobilities, public pasts, fordism, tourism, parks, infrastructure, rowdies, fruit stands, seasonality, 1970+, etc.
@LAhistory @lahistory.bsky.social Jogging the collective memory of Los Angeles through social media since 2009. Some people think LA has no history. They just don't know where to look.
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.
Finis Dunaway @finisdunaway.bsky.social Historian | Author of DEFENDING THE ARCTIC REFUGE, SEEING GREEN, & NATURAL VISIONS | Environmental History & Visual Culture | North American West, Arctic, & other places
Arctic Refuge Public History site: defendingthearcticrefuge.com
Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social Historian of US women & gender, race & citizenship in the GAPE. Currently working on a graphic history. 🖍️I’ve lived in all 4 continental time zones, but CA in the redwoods 🌲is home.
Lindsey Wieck @lwieck.bsky.social Historian of 20th and 21st cities, US West, race and culture. Associate Professor and Director of Public History at St. Mary's Univ. Lover of books, coffee, and flowers.
Andrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social Book worker, University of Oklahoma Press. Personal account. andrewb@ou.edu
Adam M. Sowards @adamsowards.net Writer & historian.
Words all over. Usually about "the environment."
Rooted in the Pacific Northwest.
https://www.adamsowards.net/
American Society for Environmental History @aseh.bsky.social Advancing understanding of human interactions with the natural world since 1977
Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social PhD in History | Environmental and Indigenous History in the American West & Borderlands | Writing an Environmental History of the North Woods | Research Historian @ Minnesota Historical Society | WI➡️MT➡️KS➡️MN
haydenlnelson.com
https://firearchive.omeka.net
B. Erin Cole @berincole.bsky.social historian, museum professional, and cartoonist. Currently working on a graphic history/memoir about nuclear Colorado. Comics: http://www.littlebraincomics.com Merch: http://littlebraincomics.etsy.com
Bryan Winston @bwinston.bsky.social Digital Scholarship Specialist at Princeton University Library | Kind of still a historian | Long Island ex-pat
Jared Farmer @geohumanist.bsky.social Place-based historian based in Philadelphia; professor at Penn; author of “Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees”
Alex E. Stern @theotherdrstern.bsky.social Historian of power⚡️Writing a book on Reconstruction in Indian Territory 📕 NativeReconstruction.com 💻 Stanford Ph.D. by way of UPenn 🌲 Kentuckian 🏇 Supporting Carleigh Beriont for Congress (NH-01) 💙
Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social acquisitions editor, University of Oklahoma Press | history | environment | North American West | Sports | joe@ou.edu
Also: hockey
Detroit Lakes, MN
David Vail @davidvailphd.bsky.social Historian of Environment, Agriculture, Science, Medicine, & Public Health. New Project: Vulnerable Harvests: Emergency Conservation in the Cold War Great Plains (Nebraska Press). My posts and views are my own.
Sarah Keyes @sarahkeyesphd.bsky.social Historian. American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail out October 2023 for @PennPress. Associate Prof @UNRhistory.
Justin Gage @justingage.bsky.social Historian, Assistant Professor in Arkansas. Author of awards winning We Do Not Want the Gates Closed between Us. https://linktr.ee/justingage
Dr. Kerri “animals have a history” @kclement.bsky.social Enviro, Animal, Disease, and Ag History | history prof aka professional Cassandra | Settler |🦓+🚫🌾 | river rat | terrible at banjo | views are my own
Kansas History @kshistoryjournal.bsky.social We publish new research on Kansas and Western history suitable for scholars and general readers. Quarterly and peer reviewed. We love history, and it shows.
Midwestern History Association @midwesternhistory.bsky.social Official account for the Midwestern History Association, studying the history of the Heartland since 2014. Learn more and join us: https://www.midwesternhistory.com/
Shine Trabucco, PhD @hangryhistorian.bsky.social Professor in Chicago | Digital Humanities | Public History | Borderlands
Save the Adobes
Matt Basso @mattbasso.bsky.social War and Society, Labor, Masculinity, Race, Public History -- US and Aotearoa; Cattle Doggos, Kiddos, Cooking, Skiing, Biking, and Cocktails (Go Astros!)
Doug Seefeldt @dougseefeldt.bsky.social Brother, husband, father x2, record collector, western historian, director of ClemsonDH PhD @clemsondh.bsky.social
Michael Childers @michaelchilders.bsky.social Environmental historian of the American West
https://www.michaelwchilders.com/
Hallie Knipp @hknipp.bsky.social she/her | eng MA, Marshall University | digital history PhD candidate @ Clemson University | Appalachian studies | histories of medicine | women, gender, sexuality | reproductive history | early 20th century
hallieknipp.net
Eric Nystrom @historynystrom.bsky.social Historian, open source enthusiast, big nerd. Prof at University of Nevada, Reno. Interests include mining history, history of technology, digital history, social history, Nevada and the American West
Sandra I. Enríquez @sienriquez.bsky.social Mujer de la Frontera | Mex-Tex in the Midwest | Assoc. Prof. of Chicanx, Urban, & Public History @ UMKC | Angry feminist |
Rob Voss @rvoss.bsky.social Associate professor history and social science education coordinator at Northwest Missouri state. Capitalism, railroads, native America, and coal mining in the 19th century is what drives my work. Being a husband and dad to four amazing kids keeps me going
Shannon Murray @smyyc.bsky.social Public historian / historian in public.
Philopolist, hockey fan, bonne vivante.
Occasional wit, consistent learning.
Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social Historian of medicine, gender, & politics. Executive Editor Emerita, @nursingclio.
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-clio-reader/9781978838598/
Forthcoming Book: Doctoring the West: Women Physicians & the Politics & Practice of Medicine
Jacob K. Friefeld @friefeld.bsky.social Director of the University of Illinois Springfield Center for Lincoln Studies, Historian on HBO Max’s Back to the Frontier, Coauthor of The First Migrants and Homesteading the Plains. Friefeld.com
Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social energy historian | infrastructure, decarbonization, and landscapes | Angeleno | always on the lookout for a good fun fact
coming soon to a disciplinary boundary near you!
Eladio Bobadilla @eladiobobadilla.com Pittsburgh-based historian of social movements, migration, and nativism. Author of Dangerous Migration: Mexican Labor and the Fight for Immigrant Rights: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p089220#preview
Katie Benton-Cohen, PhD @guprofbc.bsky.social aka Prof BC, kbc. it's me! i'm the problem it's me! , Georgetown University, Harvard UP, writing abt the Phelps-Dodge family & copper mining, rage-tweets "work-life balance" #momprof #immigrationhistory #Arizona
Traci Brynne Voyles @tracibrynne.bsky.social Environmental history, history of reproduction, EJ+RJ. Author of The Settler Sea (2021) & Wastelanding (2015). Currently writing Natural Childbirth: An Environmental History.
Dr. Jen Andrella @jenandrella.bsky.social Assistant Prof of History and Digital Humanities at the University of Southern Mississippi | Historian of the US West, Native American history, and Reconstruction jenniferandrella.com | mappingtheuppermissouri.com
Cecily Zander @cnzander.bsky.social Historian of the Civil War + the American West (sometimes at the same time) • Assist. Prof. at Texas Woman's University • Colorado Native ⛰️ • Hat Wearer 🧢 • Owner of one border collie called Moe 🐶 • writing about Lincoln and the West for Liveright •
Dr. Drew Donna Folk @drdrewfolk1.bsky.social Ph.D., History, Oklahoma State University
Public Librarian/ Nebraska Sandhills Historian/Historian of the American West
Amateur Agriculturalist
She/Her
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Swiftie
NE Colorado
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Doug Sackman @dcsackman.bsky.social Historian, Nature and Culture, author of Orange Empire and Wild Men and editor of A Companion to American Environmental History
https://sites.google.com/view/douglassackman/home
Dr. Natalie Mendoza @drmendozan.bsky.social Asst Prof at CU-Boulder | studies modern US history; pedagogy | Book forthcoming GOOD NEIGHBOR AT HOME: MEXICAN AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE WWII ERA
https://www.colorado.edu/history/natalie-mendoza
Ryan Fischer @jryanfish.bsky.social US historian of settler colonialism and the environment in the Twin Cities. All views expressed are my own.
Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social Historian of the United States, mostly 19th c., colonialism, land, GIS
Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social Writer, early retiree, former associate professor of 18th/19th US history. UIowa PhD/COGS-UE. Former dementia caregiver. Boomer by birth, Gen x by grace of god. Book project on long emancipation and Black resistance in southern Indiana, 1780-1830.
Will Stoutamire @wstoutamire.bsky.social Public historian | Associate Professor of History at the University of Nebraska at Kearney | Writes on the Antiquities Act, heritage, museums, & community history | Current Project -- Stealing Antiquity: Looting and Protecting the Past in Northern Arizona
BYU Redd Center for Western Studies @byureddcenter.bsky.social - The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at BYU
- Promoting & funding the study of the North American West with special emphasis on the Intermountain regions of AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, and WY
- https://reddcenter.byu.edu
Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her) @lindstorian.bsky.social I like history. Horses are also cool.
honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social Historian, professor, tired.
Andrew Needham @andrewneedham.bsky.social Historian at NYU. Environment, energy, climate, Indigenous history, American West. Also gripes and misadventures.
Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social Writer & environmental historian of cold places, now writing about the Yukon River. Author of FLOATING COAST. Prof at Brown University. Post mostly about animals, Arctic things & books. Heart is on a dogsled. #envhist #naturewriting
Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social Historian/writer. Creator, @draftingthepast.bsky.social podcast. History of science PhD candidate at Princeton, based in KCMO. Working on a history of storm chasing.
https://draftingthepast.com/
http://kathrynbcarpenter.com/
Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social Labor and environmental historian. Writer of books, teacher of American horrors, talker on labor movement. Beer, country music, and football are not just for the right wingers. Cats. The West. Music. Graves. Writes at https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/
Brian Leech @brianleechphd.bsky.social Historian of American West, Midwest, environmental history, mining, energy, food, animals. Currently working on a book about the history of U.S. speed limits & another book about mining in popular culture. https://brianleechphd.net
Brian DeLay @briandelay.bsky.social Berkeley Historian. Author of War of a Thousand Deserts. For Norton, finishing Aim at Empire: An international History of American Revolutions, through the Barrel of a Gun. Also 2nd Amendment cases. Birds, too. https://history.berkeley.edu/brian-delay
Tonia M. Compton @drmuseclio.bsky.social She/Her. Mental health advocate. College prof. Historian. I study the experiences of women & African Americans in the American West. Aspiring novelist. Sports fan. Cat servant. Gen-X Swiftie.
(I❤️ALL.THE.ERAS.) Settler on the lands of the Kansa people.
Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social I am a Colorado-born and raised, Boston-based writer, historian, and Pulitzer Prize Finalist. I am the author of "The Westerners" (2026), “Saving Yellowstone” (2022) and “The Three-Cornered War” (2020). More details at https://megankatenelson.com
Brenden W. Rensink 📚🏃♂️⛰ @brendenwrensink.bsky.social -Historian, American West, Borderlands, Environment, Indigenous Peoples
-Professor @ BYU & Assoc. Director @byureddcenter.bsky.social
-Podcast Host/Producer @WritingWestward.bsky.social
-Editor IntermountainHistories.org
-Books/Projects linktr.ee/BWRensink
Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org Historian. Writer. Small farmer. Nebraskan. Outdoorsman.
Here for the books. And dogs. GBR.
Senior dev @ rrchnm.org | Adjunct prof @ GMU | jasonheppler.org
@womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social The original & only WomensArt created/ curated by art historian/author PL Henderson to celebrate/promote women in the arts.
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Japanese American National Museum @jamuseum.bsky.social Sharing the Japanese American experience. Look for programs near you at janm.org/OnTheGo
House Democrats @housedemocrats.bsky.social We are the Democratic Caucus of the United States House of Representatives 🇺🇸
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social Doting grandmother, among other things.
Alt National Archives @altnatarchives.altgov.info Two NARAtians reminding everyone of the mission of the National Archives - “We preserve, protect, and share the historical records of the United States to promote public inquiry and strengthen democratic participation.”
We ride at dawn. #altgov #Antifa
Diana King 🇺🇦 @diking.bsky.social Libraries & archives, film & media studies, performing arts, bonsai & urban gardening, cats, democracy. TN-born, Los Angeles-based.
Senator Alex Padilla @padilla.senate.gov U.S. Senator for California. Devoted husband and proud dad. Dodgers diehard. EngiNERD.
Skeuomorph Press & BookLab @skeuomorphpress.org An experiential research & pedagogy studio for the history & art of the book at UIUC. We are housed in the CU Community FabLab & sponsored by the iSchool and English Department. Directed by @ryancordell.org
Democratic Hispanic Caucus Of Miami-Dade @dhcfmiami.bsky.social We are committed to electing democrats running for office, uniting the Hispanic community, and fighting to protect our democracy.
Nuestra misión es unir a los hispanos y defender la democracia apoyando a nuestros candidatos demócratas.
#OnYourSide #ATuLado
Alt US Forest Service @altusfs.altgov.info 📣 Speaking for the trees, and:
🌲 600 million forest acres
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🥾 164,000 miles of trails
🎣 400,000 miles of streams
🪵 Billions of board feet timber
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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org Public Access to Public Data is a Public Good. We want to ensure our data are not gone forever. Read more about our efforts: https://www.datarescueproject.org/press/
Trevor Owens @tjowens.bsky.social Chief Research Officer at the American Institute of Physics. Working on the history of science, libraries and archives, and social science research. Fan of bike rides, small dogs, and vegetarian cuisine.
Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social Good Authority's mission is to bring insights from political science to a broader audience. https://goodauthority.org
Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social Afro Latina. Professor at Princeton.
Author of Community as Rebellion.
Radically imagining a world where Haiti and Palestine are free, Black lives are centered, women and queer folx are safe and schools teach for freedom.
www.lorgiagarciapena.com
LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social An ecosystem of labs, projects, and members doing digital humanities against enclosure. Learn more lifexcode.org. AY 2025-2026 Keyword: FORMATION (Campt, "Loophole of Retreat-An Invitation" 2019)
Jessica Marie Johnson @jessicamariejohnson.com Historian of slavery, the Black South and the Caribbean | Using art, music & archives to teach and tell Black stories | Assoc Prof | Writer Mostly on IG these days: @jessicamariejohnson_
ICPSR @icpsr.bsky.social Digital Behavioral & Social Science Data Archive with 800+ member institutions worldwide. ICPSR is a unit within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.
Web: icpsr.umich.edu
Help: icpsr-help@umich.edu
Senate Democrats @democrats.senate.gov We are the Senate Democrats, and we're working hard for the American people.
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov Proudly serving the Massachusetts 7th.
https://linktr.ee/rep.pressley
The Emancipator @theemancipator.org The Emancipator is a digital magazine dedicated to examining and confronting racism and the inequities it creates. Visit our website: https://theemancipator.org
CalMatters @calmatters.org CalMatters is a nonpartisan and nonprofit news organization. We write stories about California, for Californians.
Eviction Lab @evictionlab.bsky.social The Eviction Lab is helping neighbors and policymakers understand the eviction crisis. Follow us for the latest housing research + news.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org We’re organizing against this fascist regime the only way that actually works — with on-the-ground, volunteer-led, communities of people power: https://linktr.ee/indivisibleteam
Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social DouglassDay.org | #DouglassDay
Join us to celebrate the birthday of Frederick Douglass every February 14th. A day of love and collective action for Black history & archives!
Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social Home to @ccp-org.bsky.social, Black Women's Organizing Archive, and @DouglassDay.bsky.social • https://linktr.ee/digblk
Defense of Democracy @defenseofdemocracy.bsky.social Empowering Americans to move from awareness of a democracy in crisis - into coordinated, sustainable, civic action.
Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info Public health experts resisting harmful policies, fighting disinformation, and defending public health from within.
Not official CDC—but close enough for transmission.
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P. Gabrielle Foreman @profgabrielle.bsky.social Literary historian. Poet’s daughter. MacArthur Fellow. Archives builder working collectively at @CCP_org and @DigBlk.
Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social Lawyer trying to transform public defense. Author of The Price of Mercy ( www.emilygalvinalmanza.com ). Can drive a truck and trailer through places you shouldn't. Personal account, personal opinions.
Creative Commons @creativecommons.bsky.social The nonprofit behind the licenses & tools the world uses to share 🌍
https://creativecommons.start.page
San Francisco Democratic Party @sfdemocrats.org Your Values. Your Vote. Your Party.
#ProudSFDemocrat
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Bilal Mahmood @bilalmahmood.bsky.social Supervisor of San Francisco. District 5.
For all constituent related inquiries:
📧 MahmoodStaff@sfgov.org
Saikat for Congress @saikatforcongress.bsky.social Working on solutions as big as the problems we face.
19thnews @19thnews.org The 19th is an independent, nonprofit newsroom reporting at the intersection of gender, politics, policy and power. https://19thnews.org/newsletters
The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca Our pod of investigative journalists dives deep to tell stories about the natural world in Canada you can’t find anywhere else. Sign up for our newsletter: http://thenarwhal.ca/newsletter or become a member: https://thenarwhal.ca/bsky-member/
Indivisible SF @indivisiblesf.bsky.social San Franciscans standing indivisible for a progressive agenda in CA-11 and -15. Also at http://sfba.social/@IndivisibleSF. Website: https://indivisiblesf.org/ Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/cHlx6r