Ron Ritchhart @ronritchhart.bsky.social Dir Worldwide Cultures of Thinking Project. Author: Cultures of Thinking in Action, The Power of Making Thinking Visible, +more. Researcher, Speaker. Harvard Project Zero Senior Principal Investigator Emeritus.
RonRitchhart.com
cultures-of-thinking.org
C3educservices @c3edservices.bsky.social C3 Educational Services provides support for schools, colleges, and businesses to grow people’s capacities to engage in effective knowledge work
http://C3es.org
Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History @historytcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social | Historian of the news, press, political cultures, and popular politics in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Kate Fullagar @kfullagar.bsky.social Historian of modern empire & Indigenous resistance 🇦🇺 History advocate. VP of https://theaha.org.au/ FAHA FRHistS. Professor at ACU. Latest book Bennelong & Phillip https://rb.gy/vebj23 My website is katefullagar.com
Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social Writer. Prof. Lover of Music and Film. 🇭🇹🇫🇷🎮🎬🗃️ . Current project: Antiracist writers & the House Un-American Activities Committee. Views expressed through this account represent my own opinions and not my employer's.
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
Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org History & political economy of culture; Associate Professor of History, UMass-Amherst. Opinions my own. Prefer email to DMs.
https://asheeshksi.substack.com/
asheeshks.org/
Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social Online journal for the history of #revolutions, #revolutionaries, & the idea of “revolution” itself. Est. by @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social & @cindyermus.bsky.social.
ageofrevolutions.com
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
Niklas Frykman @nfrykman.bsky.social Historian of capitalism, revolution, and the sea. Author of THE BLOODY FLAG: MUTINY IN THE AGE OF ATLANTIC REVOLUTION (tinyurl.com/2p8e79yz)
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)
Manuel Barcia @mbarcia24.bsky.social Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement). University of Bath. #LFC, #RedSox, #Reds, #AthleticClub, #BostonCeltics. Starting a book on the First Anglo-Asante War (1823-31).
Abigail Swingen @abigailswingen.bsky.social EM British & Atlantic history. Competing Visions of Empire (Yale, 2015). Now: Britain's Financial Revolution & Moral Crisis. She/her. New Englander. Views my own. Latest article: https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.74
Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social Early modern historian of the Atlantic world, Indigenous Americas, Western Africa, France. Editor, Huntington Library Quarterly. brettrushforth.com
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
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social Historian of 18th-century Scotland focused on Jacobite Studies and Digital History. Curator of JDB1745. Chair, Jacobite Studies Trust. PhD via University of St Andrews. In love with a swan and two cats. Currently watching the leaves in Portland, OR.
Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social UChicago. Early American history; colonialism and empire; legal history; history of political thought. https://www.daraghjgrant.com
Dr. Katie McCullough @kmccullo.bsky.social Historian of modern Scottish history/Atlantic world and Indigenous-settler relations in Canada. Settler on lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ territories.
Principal consultant at https://yarrowhistoricalconsulting.ca/
Kerry Sinanan @kerrysinanan.bsky.social Free Palestine, Sudan, DRC. End settler colonialism. Black Atlantic, Caribbean, slavery, white supremacy in the long 18thc. Holistic abolition. Wear a mask!!! Lib free zone.🇹🇹🇮🇪
Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social Historian of the American Revolution | Director of Digital History at More Perfect | Narrator of Worlds Turned Upside Down | Scotland Enthusiast | Views my own.
www.jimambuske.com
Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social Historian of Atlantic slavery & the British Caribbean | Professor | Author of THE DRIVER'S STORY: LABOR AND POWER IN THE WORLD OF ATLANTIC SLAVERY (2024) and SURVIVING SLAVERY IN THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN (2017) | randymbrowne.com
Pernille Røge @pernilleblues.bsky.social Historian of the French and Danish colonial empires, political economy, slavery, and abolition. Mom of two little vikings. Author of "Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire".
Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social Historian ∙ JSPS Fellow @utokyoofficial.bsky.social via @britishacademy.bsky.social ∙ Reviews Editor @global-ih.bsky.social ∙ Co-org @gpolthought.bsky.social ∙ the English republic, England and Edo Japan, historiography ∙ priorly Firenze, London, Oxford
Voetnoot -Mark Ponte @voetnoot.bsky.social Historian - Amsterdam - Suriname - migration history - 17th century - typos - was 17,5 jaar op Twitter http://voetnoot.org
Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social Historian @ Cornell. Author of THE PREDATORY SEA: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CAPTIVITY IN THE 17TH-C CARIBBEAN (Penn Press, 2025) https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828146/the-predatory-sea/
Tom Cutterham @tomcutterham.bsky.social Historian of class and capital in the American Revolution. *Empire Ablaze* out in summer 2026 https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3442-empire-ablaze. Previously, *Gentlemen Revolutionaries* (Princeton, 2017).
@deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social Director of the New Netherland Institute, Albany, New York, archives rat, #VastNewNetherland
Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
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
McNeil Center for Early American Studies @mcneilcenter.bsky.social Facilitating scholarly inquiry into the histories and cultures of North America/Atlantic world before 1850
https://www.mceas.org/
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
Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social Early modernist at the University of York | A GOLDEN WORLD (Faber, 2026) | TEMPEST for Oxford World's Classics (2024) | BBC Radio 3 New Gen Thinker | Rep'd by Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn.
Lauren K. Michalak @laurenkmichalak.bsky.social Field Experience Coordinator for @jmcmsu. PhD in Early American history from @UMDHistory. Revolutionary politics and the Gordon Riots.
Tessa Murphy @murphyte.bsky.social Canadian historian of the colonial Caribbean. Associate Prof. of Early American History, Syracuse U. Author of “The Creole Archipelago.” She/her.
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
Cindy Ermus @cindyermus.bsky.social Mom; Wilson Assoc Prof in History of Medicine; Dir of medical humanities; Series Ed for France Overseas, U Neb Press; cofounder ageofrevolutions.com; FRHistS; NEH Fellow 2022.
Book: Great Plague Scare of 1720 (Cambridge 2023).
Views my own.
Jordan E. Taylor @publiusorperish.bsky.social Historian of the American Revolution, news, politics, etc. Author of Misinformation Nation.
Manager of Digital Content for Colonial Williamsburg. Views here are my own.
Used to be more into social media. Now trying to enjoy the quiet.
jordanetaylor.com
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
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.
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social Historian of early America and bits of Britain. Apostate southerner. Yells about maps, St. Louis, and higher ed.
Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social Historian. Latest book--The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States--published by @uvapress.bsky.social. Cat gentleman. Occasional blogger: https://sonofsar.blogspot.com
Rob Taber @robtaber.bsky.social Historian of Haiti 🇭🇹 and democracy in the Americas at Fayetteville State.
Working for a welcoming + transformative UNC System & NC. Views my own.
Formerly US ED Partnerships.
Occasional live-poster of obscure panels and events.
Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social Award-winning Author. Associate Professor, School of History, University of Leeds. Author of The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico. Research: Black people, Women, Slavery, Freedom, Law, Jesuits.
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 Ham House @OOCDTP | Global/Atlantic world histories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries | Former Teacher |
Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social Historian of politics, business, media in early America. Author of Revolutionary Networks. He/him. See https://josephadelman.com for more.
Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social Historian | France| Gender| Global Early Modern| Views my own | Writing: An Intimate History of Racial Capitalism in Old Regime France | Sex in an Old Regime City (OUP, 2020).
More here: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/jholwell
Naomi Pullin @naomipullin.bsky.social Historian of 17thC & 18thC British Atlantic. Author of Female Friends and Transatlantic Quakerism, working on solitude in early modern Britain. Reader @warwickhistory
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
Opinions my own
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
Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social Historian and archaeologist of the early modern Atlantic World, specializing in Bermuda, slavery and the slave trade, maritime history, maritime emancipation, Caribbean history, sensory history. Dept of History, Memorial University, Newfoundland.
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)
Emma Hart @emmahart.bsky.social Historian, mum, and trivia aficionado
Kathleen DuVal @kathleenduval.bsky.social Historian, UNC professor
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.
Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social Historian of the Anglophone world in the very long seventeenth century, emeritus History prof SUNY-New Paltz: https://go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq. ORCID 0000-0001-8375-0939 #earlymodern
Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social Historian of slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Africa. Curates #slaveryarchive. Visit my website analuciaaraujo.org
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
Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social Historian of the 17th C. Americas: environment, plants, failed colonies, maps and more. Lover of travel, languages, stationery, and dresses. Wyoming isn't real unless you want to come visit me.
Jared Hardesty @drhardesty.bsky.social Professor of History at Western Washington University. Historian of colonial America, labor, and slavery.
Most recent book:
https://hackettpublishing.com/the-suriname-writings-of-john-gabriel-stedman
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
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
Misha Ewen @drmishaewen.bsky.social Historian of gender & colonisation in the early modern British Atlantic world | Assistant Prof at University of Sussex | in Editor at English Historical Review | IG @mishaewen12
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.
Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social Professor at U of Alberta • Early modern New France and France (literature, history, theatre) • Zags hoops • novels • academic life.
*Recent book: The Jesuit Relations: A Biography*
Joyce Chaplin @joycechaplin.bsky.social Harvard professor, historian of science, technology, and medicine, plus food and environment 🜃
(https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/joyce-chaplin)
New book: THE FRANKLIN STOVE (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374613808/thefranklinstove/)
Alison Games @gamesaf.bsky.social No Kings! Free DC. Historian.
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 🇯🇵🇩🇪
Chris Parsons @chrisparsons.bsky.social Historian of Science, Medicine, and the Environment in colonial North America at Northeastern. Author of A Not-So-New World: Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America (UPenn, 2019).
Carolyn Eastman @carolyneastman.bsky.social
Historian, professor, book review editor, and reader, currently writing a book about Black and white New Yorkers' experiences with yellow fever during the 1790s.
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
Nathan Jopling @joplingn.bsky.social PhD Researcher at the University of Birmingham, specialising in the Seventeenth Century English Atlantic, and Piracy 🏴☠️
Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social Historian in Roll Tide country. (Almost always) all things early modern Caribbean. Currently foraying into the late eighteenth century while working on THE DUCHESS AND THE DANDY. She/her. Always 🇮🇪🇬🇧 Currently🇺🇸 Views are my own etc.
James L. Hill @jlhill.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Specializing in Early American, Caribbean, Native American, and Atlantic World history. http://pitt.academia.edu/JamesLHill
Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social Historian, voracious reader, & cocktail 🍸 enthusiast. Upcoming book—THE CROWN’S SILENCE: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy & Slavery (Mariner, Jan. 2026). Link: https://tinyurl.com/5erj7z6x
All views, my own. Website: www.brookennewman.com
Frances Bell @franrbell.bsky.social Historian of the Haitian revolutionary diaspora, mobility, and freedom-seeking in the United States. Assist. Prof at App State; W&M and Woodson Institute alum. Handy with a knitting needle, happy on a bicycle. She/her.
Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Swarthmore’s History Department studying how Africans survived enslavement, epidemics, and empires in the early modern Atlantic World.
Insta: @bydreamphd
Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social Labor + economic historian | they/them
political economy, ships, and shipbuilders
CONTROL SCIENCE out with Verso May 12!
currently an adjunct at UConn
newsletter/blog: buttondown.com/anotherway
Camille Cordier @camcord.bsky.social PhD Student in Early Modern History. Saint-Domingue, Le Cap-Français, Urban History of the Caribbean, Food and Consumption, Spatial Analysis.
Creator of the project : https://streetsoflecap.com/
Kenneth Owen @kennethowen.bsky.social Dad. Teacher. Historian. In that order.
Political historian, studying secession movements. Also studying early America. Probably running or watching sports.
Rachel Tils @racheltils.bsky.social PhD candidate in History at UChicago-Atlantic and Caribbean worlds-slavery, internal markets, policing, economic autonomy-18th c. French and British Empires
Christian Pinnen @cpinnen.bsky.social Professor Mississippi College, Co-Director African American Studies, 🇩🇪🇺🇸Award winning author #VastEarlyAmerica Bio here: http://bio.site/CPinnen
John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com Historian and writer exploring how Americans engage with the past. **Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory** out now. www.johngmarks.com
Carlos Noreña @carlosfnorena.bsky.social Ancient Historian @ UC Berkeley • 🇪🇦 • politics | sports | electronic music • He/Him
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.
James Fox @jamesafox.bsky.social Social historian of numeracy, communication, knowledge, books | Postdoc at Glasgow Uni researching early modern how-to books howtobook.eu | PhD from St Andrews on numeracy in early modern Britain | Writer and co-editor at scilicet.org.uk