Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social historian — Cornell U. professor — book author, “Troop Movements” (2026)
Heather Ann Thompson @historianheather.bsky.social Pulitzer Prize winning author, book on Attica, next on Bernie Goetz/80s, then MOVE Bombing. In NYT, TIME, New Yorker, Atlantic, etc. + CJ policy work & script consulting. WritersHouse & CAA repped.
www.heatherannthompson.com
david helps @david-helps.bsky.social historian & postdoc, University of Toronto • writing a people’s history of global LA • Great Lakes supremacist • he/they • https://www.david-helps.com/writing
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social Professor of Law at a regional midwest public law school. Political theory, corps & admin. 🧶👽👾🧙🏽♀️🦅🎮 My views are my own and reposts are not endorsements.
SSRN author page
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3568227
Jessica Ann Levy @jessicaannlevy.bsky.social Historian. Professor. Writer. Podcaster | US and/in the World + corporations + post-apartheid/postcolonialism | Author of Black Power, Inc. | Co-host @WhoMakesCents
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Lindsay Van Horn @lindsayvh.bsky.social History of political thought @ Princeton (PhD candidate). Big Padres fan, video game enjoyer, and lover of emo music. Really only here to (doom)scroll, I guess.
Mike Glass @m-r-glass.bsky.social US historian at Boston College. Author of CRACKED FOUNDATIONS: Debt and Inequality in Suburban America (Penn Press, 2025): https://tinyurl.com/yc5evxeh
Karen Benjamin @kallienebenjamin.bsky.social Historian at Elmhurst U, UW Madison + UT Austin alum
Good Parents, Better Homes, and Great Schools: Selling Segregation before the New Deal available July 2025 from UNC Press 
Michael Leo Owens @milophd.bsky.social A pluviophile, melomaniac, gardener, karaoke fiend, & academic. Atlantan by labor; New Yorker by birth.
Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social Christina Sharpe. Writer/Professor/CRC. Ordinary Notes (2023). In the Wake: On Blackness & Being (2016). Monstrous Intimacies (2010). What Could a Vessel Be? (2027). Black. Still. Life. (2028) Agent: Jackie Ko/Wylie
Daniel Castaneda @historydaniel.bsky.social PhD Candidate | UC Davis - Go Ags! | Political History | Latina/o/x Politics | California History
mariah parker @marpark.bsky.social organizer, wordsmith
Kamau Franklin @kamaufranklin.bsky.social Organizer, Writer, Lawyer
Community Movement Builders https://communitymovementbuilders.org/
Black Liberation Media https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC6o7j4ZNNziKnCyds8-XzA
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social Historian of Media, Fake News, and Propaganda. Author/Co-Author of BROADCAST HYSTERIA; SCARFACE AND THE UNTOUCHABLE; ELIOT NESS AND THE MAD BUTCHER. Michigan Wolverine with a Princeton PhD.
Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social historian, politics & media, book coming soon: Archie Bunker for President with @uncpress.bsky.social
Tyeshia Redden @tyredden.bsky.social Come for the research, stay for the vibe
Urban Planner, Comic Aficionado
www.tyredden.com
📽 Film 🎧 Hip Hop🏅Mega-Events
Akira Drake Rodriguez @akirarodriguez.bsky.social Interested in race, cities, politics. Diverging Space for Deviants (UGA Press 2021): http://tinyurl.com/Divergingspace Working on a new book project. 
Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social History worth reading. Book reviews, publishing news, craft essays, podcast interviews, all about nonfiction books.
The Astrology Podcast @astrologypodcast.bsky.social A weekly podcast on the history, philosophy, and practice of astrology, hosted by Chris Brennan.
King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social Ex-Interim Chair. Free puns. Historian. Books: Slave Country, Beyond Freedom's Reach. More: https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RXHCAA4/adam-rothman
Aaron Bekemeyer @abekemeyer.bsky.social Historian and teacher
NYU
Claire Dunning @cdunning.bsky.social Historian at UMaryland. Author of NONPROFIT NEIGHBORHOODS. I study the policy and politics of cities, nonprofits, philanthropy, and welfare.
Dr. Aria Halliday @drariahalliday.bsky.social My editor made me do it. (She/they)
https://linktr.ee/drariahalliday
Charles Petersen @cpetersen.bsky.social Editor @nplusonemag; published in @nybooks etc. Writing a book about meritocracy and Silicon Valley.
Bearistotle @gnrosenberg.bsky.social Gentle forest dweller off on adventures | actual bear pretending (poorly) to be human professor @duke | histories of sex, agriculture, food, and all that bleeds | kettlebell and techno enthusiast
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
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.
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social Views here my own. Writing from Dearborn. Formerly: Democracy Director @rooseveltinstitute.org and @Rooseveltforward.org. #FirstGen Go Blue.
Dylan Gottlieb @dygottlieb.bsky.social Historian of modern U.S. || Author of YUPPIES (@harvardpress.bsky.social) II Co-host of @whomakescents.bsky.social II Rep'd by Alia Hanna Habib @thegernertco.bsky.social
Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social Historian. Professional and personal interests in cities, politics, labor, punk rock, beer, higher ed, and all things Philadelphia. Author, Blue-Collar Conservatism (https://tinyurl.com/4kspr3ds) Other projects in the works, probably
Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social Historian, opinions my own. Hand upon the dollar, eye upon the scale. He/him. 
Logan @loganfbm.bsky.social Utahn against data centers
Pat McCullough @uclaphd.bsky.social Dad. History teacher in Maryland. Hist of religion Ph.D., UCLA. Consumer of smart people’s ideas. Performing technologies of the self on a daily basis. Views = my own intellectual journey, not my employer's. He/him.
Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social Historian of US liberalism, Congress, and the C20th Democratic Party. Trade unionist. Lanyard class warrior.
Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social Professor @ a large Midwestern U
Author of Thinking like an Economist, Creating the Market University
Trying to understand how ideas about economic value have shaped capitalism + its regulation, from the first Gilded Age to the second
Have more hair now
Ezra Johnson @ezrajohnson.bsky.social Caltech Computer Science | Algorithms Research
nataliya braginsky @nataliyabraginsky.bsky.social philly high school history + english teacher • public schools forever • writer • she/they
Melvin Rogers @prorogers.bsky.social Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor
Political Science Department @ Brown University
Teaches Political Theory
Book: The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought (PUP) 
@kels-see.bsky.social @kels-see.bsky.social 
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos
BUY MY NEW BOOK:
https://tinyurl.com/EdgeOfSpaceTime
Blog:
news.chanda.science
all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
Posts by/for me🖖🏽
Elisabeth Macias @ejmunfun.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Georgetown. 20th century Latinx urban history and schools. Former HS teacher.
Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social Words. Ideas. Culture. Shenanigans.
#MusicSermon, CDI @ NYU, BMAC
naima@naimacochrane.com
Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social Full-time Mum • Writer • Associate Professor @ CUNY (Grad Ctr + Hunter) • PhDJ • out now ⬇️ my book 📒🏝️DARK LABORATORY (Doubleday). Manhattanite. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725301/dark-laboratory-by-tao-leigh-goffe/
www.taoleighgoffe.com
Marsha Barrett @marshabarrett.bsky.social Modern U.S. Historian, Professor
Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social "I'm so grateful Hammer and Hope exists. True Black leftist literary dispatches." - dream hampton.
Become a member: https://hammerandhope.org/membership
Read new issues and sign up for our newsletter: https://linktr.ee/hammerandhope
Prof Lou Moore @profloumoore.bsky.social Husband. Dad. History prof at MSU (F25). Author of I Fight for a Living, We Will Win the Day, and The Great Black Hope: Doug Williams, Vince Evans, and the Making of the Black Quarterback.
profloumoore.com
Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.
Christina Proenza-Coles @proenzacoles.bsky.social Author of AMERICAN FOUNDERS: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World. I study, research, teach, & post American history.
Lily Geismer @lilygeismer.bsky.social I research and write about the history of American liberalism and the Democratic Party.
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social Professor of History and Black Studies | Award-winning author | 'The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War' | Dad | Husband | Aging hooper | Wu-Tang forever | chadlwilliams.com
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.
Rick McLaughlin @rickmclaughlin.com Music superfan, bassist, educator (Berklee Prof.); https://linktr.ee/rickmclaughlinmusic and @rickmclaughlinmusic elsewhere
Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social Scholarship about the city, for the city. https://www.atlantastudies.org
Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social kentuckian in ATL, making maps @ mappingatlanta.org, etc. etc.
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D. @profblmkelley.bsky.social /writer/historian/ph.d./award-winning author of Black Folk/president @natlhumanities /breast cancer survivor/The Oracle
Jennifer Le Zotte @lezotte.bsky.social Historian of dress, race, sex, gender, and capitalism. Author of From Goodwill to Grunge: A History of Secondhand Styles and Alternative Economies. Writing about more dress stuff, at balls and brothels, on Wall Street and in night clubs.
Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press.
Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
hakeemjefferson.com
Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social policy, $, political economy of race // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof (formerly: Princeton CSDP, UW)
Esther Zuckerman @ezwrites.bsky.social writer, etc.
estherzuckermanwrites.com
Julio Capó Jr. @juliocapojr.bsky.social Queer/Latinx/race/migration history prof at FIU. Also public history & humanities. Wrote #WelcomeToFairyland. Curated #QueerMiami, #Zorita & other exhibitions. An editor of Made By History section in TIME. Opinions my own. He/él.
Daniel Rowe @danrowe.bsky.social Historian. Director of Academic Programmes, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. Political economy, capitalism, urban, and policy history.
Karen Tani @kmtani.bsky.social Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor in Law & History @Penn. Co-runs the Legal History Blog. Researches/writes about law & modern U.S. history: civil rights, social welfare, disability, federalism, agencies, the state. Dog person.
Todd Michney @toddmichney.bsky.social U.S. urban historian. Redlining and New Deal housing policy; African Americans and the U.S. construction industry 1865-1965; American homeownership 1880-1950. https://hsoc.gatech.edu/people/person/todd-michney
Questlove! @questlove.bsky.social I’m too tired to go into it good people 
Kathryn Cramer Brownell @kathrynbrownell.bsky.social Professor & Director of the Center for American Political History & Technology at Purdue University; Author of 24/7 Politics & Showbiz Politics; Senior Editor of Made By History
Daniel LaChance @dwlachance.bsky.social Law & Humanities Professor in Emory University’s History Department. Ph.D. in American Studies (UMN). I write about crime and punishment in American Culture. Author: Executing Freedom (2016), Crimesploitation (2022). Website: https://tinyurl.com/rmhsv6fx
Andrea M. Headley, PhD @amheadley.bsky.social Associate Prof @Georgetown @McCourtSchool | Public management scholar studying racial equity and criminal justice organizations | Believer 🙏🏽
www.andreaheadley.com
Kendra Boyd @kendradboyd.bsky.social Scholar of African American history, Black business and economics, urban history.
JBG @lizzlebadd.bsky.social Clark Atlanta AWS Masters Student 🍎 | herstorian | low brass lady | Spelman woman 🛸 | author of “Adventures with the Funk House Band” out now!! 🌱📚
Www.breakthesealpress.com
Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social Advancing knowledge, fostering collaboration, informing the future
https://www.pennpress.org/
Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law, CU Boulder
Current projects:
Police Takeovers
Legalizing the Counterrevolution of Property
Studying Policing from a Law and Political Economy Perspective
jonathonbooth.com
Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social political theory professor and aspiring luddite | increasingly irrational ultrarunner | AAUP-AFT 6741 | toward a new operation dixie for the higher ed labor movement
Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social Author, editor, professor of history, Philadelphian. Nobody should be deported.
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469673042/dreamland/
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Brent Cebul @brentcebul.bsky.social I teach history and write about US politics, cities, and inequality, most recently in ILLUSIONS OF PROGRESS: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century (Penn Press, 2023).
Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social Historian of conservatism, media, and the presidency at Vanderbilt. Author of PARTISANS & MESSENGERS OF THE RIGHT. Cohost of @thisdaypod.com from Radiotopia. Frequently posting on IG stories @pastpundit
Brian Goldstein @bgoldst.bsky.social Urban & architectural historian at Swarthmore. Coming Sept. 2026: Max Bond: The Life and Work of the People’s Architect. Wrote: The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle Over Harlem. Architecture & race, baseball, jazz. DC resident.
Natanya Duncan, PhD @garveyitewmn.bsky.social Daughter, Sister, Aunt, Historian, Researcher/Writer, Author, Teacher, Child of the Black Diaspora
micah @micahh.bsky.social 
Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social Old Books, Global History, at UCLA (Curator of Global Book History and the History of Printing). Once described as, "in need of etiquette classes." Queer. Poly. They/them
Becky Nicolaides @beckynic7.bsky.social Suburban historian, latest book The New Suburbia (2024), co-founder History Studio, proud Angeleno, Dodgers 4ever. Dreaming of opening a bakery/bookstore. 
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Ava Purkiss @apurkiss.bsky.social Historian of Black women/Associate Professor at U-M Ann Arbor/Author of Fit Citizens (UNC Press, 2023)/I study race, gender, health, and the body/Researching U.S. history of gynecology in the 20th century
Amira Rose Davis @amirarose.bsky.social Professor. Historian. Podcaster | Black women sports + politics| co-host @burnitdownpod | writing #CantEataMedal 📖🏃🏾♀️⛹🏿♀️🏅| host AmProdigies szn 3
David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social Assistant Prof of History, UCSB. Former fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. Social movements & political economy—civil rights movement; economic policy; inflation; mass incarceration.
The Intercept @theintercept.com Fearless, adversarial journalism. Join our newsletter to get our best investigative reporting delivered to you: https://theintercept.com/newsletter/
Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social Author of PRISON: INCARCERATION AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA, coming March 2027
Other books include STAYED ON FREEDOM, CAPTIVE NATION, & more
Doing things with Washington Prison History Project.
www.danberger.info | www.waprisonhistory.org
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social Historian, Author of Living in a DAISY Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made. Also writing book on history of the Left in Midwest.
https://austincmccoy.com/
https://austincmccoy.substack.com/