Tristram Shandy 2026 @tristramshandy2026.bsky.social A very distinguished gentleman with very distinguishing opinions. . .
A page dedicated to the CUNY Graduate Center’s Tristram Shandy 2026 reading group.
Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social Sr. Fellow @ Brookings, Co-founder of Democracy Defenders Action, Executive Chair of Democracy Defenders Fund & Co-Founder of The Contrarian contrarian.substack.com. Posts with "TN" are from Team Norm
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org The Far Side, near at hand
Account by @cowtools.org
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org \O/
Thinking from the Oakland Bay Area
https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/
ORB@oaklandreviewofbooks.org
Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social writer/blogger, formerly journalist at WSJ, Dow Jones, Reuters, others. #economics #markets, #music, #philosophy, #books, #technology, #photos, etc. (ie hopelessly eclectic) Toronto. May not respond to DMs. Blog at: https://doncurren.blogspot.com
Abbaetha: Large Parsnip Split-Level @abbaetha.bsky.social Quilter, crafter, baker. Sff/romance/history reader. Boosting books. Amateur victorianist. Posts and follows re: books, crafts, and food. LGBTQ+ ally. D. Dunnett cultist. No politics, no automatic follow-backs. E pur si muove. Banner: Marat cake.
Oh hey @heyokayo.bsky.social Chow, travel, energy efficiency
Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social Public Historian/Prof; Voting rights, suffrage, & citizenship; 🗃️
On The Great Courses & Audible
Views=my own. On #TikTok
http://buymeacoffee.com/PhDRachel
@dailycal.bsky.social @dailycal.bsky.social UC Berkeley's independent, student-run newspaper. Established in 1871, independent since 1971.
https://linktr.ee/DailyCalifornian
Sören Hammerschmidt @sorham.bsky.social he/him. 18th-c. literature & community college stanning in the desert. prof by day, goth 24/7. luddite by choice & out of conviction.
The Drift @thedriftmag.com A magazine of culture and politics
Pitch us at: pitches@thedriftmag.com
Bookforum Magazine @bookforum.bsky.social All about books since 1994. Subscribe to our print magazine today.
Nature Vibes @naturehq.bsky.social Nature, landscape and wildlife from all over the world 🌎
southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social Writer, lawyer, Dodger fan, internet dog. nycsouthpaw18 at gmail. 
amy brown @amybrown.xyz wife, mother, poster
bay area via dayton, ohio
✨ amybrown.xyz ✨
StickyBunny @stickybunny.bsky.social Rare book archivist. Former Law Librarian. Mystery, true crime, and haiku enthusiast. I collect doors.
Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social https://hotbrownpress.etsy.com & hotbrownpress.com
Literacy Propagandist - Letterpress - Book & Media History - Manuscript Studies - Early American Lit - Native Am & Indigenous Studies
Editor, Handwriting in Early America: A Media History (UMass 2023)
Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social Professor of English, University of Dundee & General Editor of The Oxford Complete Works of Mary Shelley (Oxford University Press) (https://linktr.ee/profdanielcook)
David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social Professor at Stanford, activist, writer, podcaster (Speaking Out of Place). https://speakingoutofplace.com/ Board of Directors, Truthout. Words in Jacobin, The Nation, Al Jazeera, etc. Book from Haymarket. Views my own. Substack @davidpalumboliu
Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org Taco Bell Quarterly is The World's Most Prestigious Literary Magazine. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org
Anthrodiva @anthrodiva.bsky.social Cultural anthropologist. Sagittarius with Aries rising. Condiment Queen of the Post-Apocalypse. Lives in WV.
Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social Politics, author of Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed. Meidas Canada/ The Resistance Lead singer with Grievous Angels. Just a boy from Cobalt.
Not a space for the cynical and snide.
Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage. French-born, London-based cosmopolite. Literary #Archives & #DigitalHumanities #DH #AI
www.lisejaillant.com
Nicholas Seager @nick-seager.bsky.social Professor of English and Head of Humanities, Keele University
The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social The Defoe Society is dedicated to supporting and advancing research and pedagogy related to Defoe’s corpus through the organization of conferences and panels, administration of awards, and facilitation of exchanges between Defoe scholars. defoesociety.org
Adam Przeworski @adamprz.bsky.social 
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Stolen Relations @stolenrelations.bsky.social Official Bluesky of Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas. Housed at the Brown Center for Digital Scholarship @browncds.bsky.social; PI Linford Fisher @linford.bsky.social.
stolenrelations.org
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Miller Wright @millerswright.bsky.social Asst Professor of History, UMBC: Native Slavery in Brazil and Carolina, Matrilineages, Atlantic. Itinerant.
David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social NPR media guy
Author, Murdoch’s World
Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social At midnight Weds 8/5-Thu 8/6 a special mid-recovery edition of The Countdown with Keith Olbermann Podcast will post (I'll be testing out the new equipment) https://link.chtbl.com/countdownwithkeitholbermann
Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social Scottish comic/writer/actor with confusing accent, absolutely not insecure about it. She/her. My book out now! Show for '26: The Mermaid https://linktr.ee/eleanormorton
Eleanor & Alasdair Read That on Spotify
support me: https://ko-fi.com/eleanormorton
Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social Believer | Happy husband and dad | Associate Professor of History & Director of African Studies, University of Washington | Chosen Peoples (Duke UP), Bounds of Blackness (Cornell UP)
UW bio: https://history.washington.edu/people/christopher-tounsel
Commonplace: the journal of early American life @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social Commonplace: the journal of early American life since 2000. Published by a partnership of the OIEAHC and AAS. Commonplace.online
The Associated Press @apnews.com Advancing the power of facts, globally 🌎
The Berkeley Scanner @berkeleyscanner.com Authoritative news about public safety and politics in Berkeley, California. Founder: Emilie Raguso, 2017 SPJ NorCal journalist of the year.
Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social UChicago. Early American history; colonialism and empire; legal history; history of political thought. https://www.daraghjgrant.com
jbessmor @jbessmor.bsky.social Ph.D., history of slavery & gendered violence. Moved here from the other place. Navigating finishing a book. In solidarity with other researchers who have lost funding. Dog person, obviously.
John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social I write about books and edit others’ writing about books, previously for NY Times and Washington Post. Apollonian/Order Muppet. Highly sociable misanthrope. (Photo: Larry McMurtry's Booked Up, 2018.)
Daniel Felsenthal @dfelsenthal.bsky.social Writer of all shapes and sizes at The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Pitchfork, Frieze, the Village Voice, New Republic, The Nation, Los Angeles Times, Organizing at Freelance Solidarity Project. he/him and very gay 🇵🇸 danielfelsenthal.com
Adam Dalva @adamdalva.bsky.social Writing in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, etc. Contributing Editor, Yale Review. President, National Book Critics Circle. Rep: Duvall Osteen
Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com Crime Lady. NYT Crime & Mystery columnist. Latest Book: WITHOUT CONSENT. Author, SCOUNDREL, THE REAL LOLITA. Editor, UNSPEAKABLE ACTS and EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN.
http://www.linktr.ee/sarahweinman
David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social Staff writer for the Atlantic. Host of the David Frum Show webcast. Formerly ... quite a lot of things.
Washington DC and Wellington, Ontario.
Reach me via Producer@TheDavidFrumShow.com
DMs open to followers
Mother Jones @motherjones.com Investigative journalism 🕵️, politics 🗳️, chart-tastic 📊, and sometimes sarcastic 🙄😌🤪
Join our people-powered nonprofit newsroom: motherjones.com/subscribe
The San Francisco Standard @sfstandard.com Reporting on the people, power, and culture shaping San Francisco.
Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social Keely's husband, Tal and Sasha's dad, assoc prof of English at Temple (opinions my own), labor unionist at TAUP (AFT #4531).
Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social Associate prof of ENGL, Marquette U • c18 lit • disability studies • cat dad • gay married to @nyitray • frequenter of mosh pits and libraries
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
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
Carolyn Forché @carolynforche.bsky.social Poet, memoirist
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social Proud papa. Perpetually pissed.
#BlueWave2026, #Feminist.
Author of The Bigliest Loser and The Liddle'est President.
Check out my AMAZING Substack here: https://linktr.ee/mmpadellan
👉Sr. Advisor, @reallyamerican.bsky.social👈👀
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
David Armitage @davidrarmitage.bsky.social @Harvard_History professor. Honorary fellow @Catz_Cambridge
scholar.harvard.edu/armitage/home
Adrian Weimer @acweimer.bsky.social Historian of colonial America, early modern religion & politics. New book: A Constitutional Culture http://bit.ly/3hJ1Abc
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
Dr. Joe Krulder @joekrulder.bsky.social Proud dad, lucky husband, an existentialist historian of the 18th-century Atlantic, laughing as I go. Author of “The Execution of Admiral John Byng as a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain” (2021)
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/
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.
Greg O’Malley @gogogomalley.bsky.social Historian of colonial America, the Caribbean, and slavery. Professor at UCSC. Lover of cooking, sporting, mountains, and indie bands. Mischievous uncle.
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.🇹🇹🇮🇪
Joshua D. Rothman @jrothman.bsky.social Historian of American slavery, Crimson Tide Intellectual.
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
Viola Müller @vfmueller.bsky.social Historian at Wageningen University @historywur.bsky.social | Book Review Editor at @JournalSlavery.bsky.social | author of ESCAPE TO THE CITY (UNC Press) 👉 https://uncpress.org/book/9781469671062/escape-to-the-city/
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
Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social Historian of slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Africa. Curates #slaveryarchive. Visit my website analuciaaraujo.org
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social Recovering lawyer | Owned by a Pembroke Corgi | Host of Psycho Politics pod and contributor, @TheBulwark.com | Crappy pol | Trying to figure out Substack
substack.com/@gtconway
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
KTW @katebegins2rock.bsky.social Author: ARBORIA PARK. Editor, historian. Famed punk rock attendee. Used to write books about girls/women saving their hometowns thru history & music. Wish I could just post about that but we're in crisis.
Delaware/Philly/Front row
katetylerwall.com
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social Historian of early America and bits of Britain. Apostate southerner. Yells about maps, St. Louis, and higher ed.
Dr. Elisabeth M. Yang @emyang.bsky.social Philosophically-bent, historian/childhood studies PhD, Wellcome Trust Fellow, history of medicine, material culture/moral babies & children/amateur thespian/tea snob
Based in the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science at University of Leeds
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
Jenny Leetsch @jennyleetsch.bsky.social juniorprofessor of anglophone literatures and cultures (university of trier) • views my own • she/her • #firstgen
website: https://www.jenniferleetsch.com/
“soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb."
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.
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/
Roland @rolandwall.bsky.social Evacuee from other place, seeking the 1/2 of America that doesn't support felons and racists. Environmental science guy, Philly by day, Delaware by night.
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.
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
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Al Coppola @qu1x0tical.bsky.social 18c Lit at John Jay CUNY. First book: Science, Spectacle, Stupidity. Lately, it's the little things.
Laura Stevens @lauramstevens.bsky.social I'm a Professor of British, American, and Indigenous lit, pre-1800, & Director of Auburn University's Honors College. 
Melissa Mowry @melissammowry.bsky.social Professor 17th and 18thc British Atlantic, author Collective Understanding (OUP), The Bawdy Politic (Routledge), Defoe’s Roxana (Broadview). Working on tyranny, slavery, and friendship. Opinions my own. https://www.melissammowry.com/
Kathleen Alves @katalves18c.bsky.social english associate prof, 2YC stan, 18c lit and med, unapologetic Filipinx, optimistic misanthrope, petty moralist. Opinions my own. She/her
Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race https://www.mmor.co.uk Author https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945604
Margaret Schotte @schottemargaret.bsky.social Early modern history, DH & Indian Ocean. Loves all things bookish, maritime, & history-of-science. ☞ she/her 🌈
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social prof at UNC
⚽️getting REALLY into professional women's soccer ⚽️
Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social Paterno Family Librarian for Literature & Professor of English at Penn State | Editor, Penn State Series in the History of the Book, PSU Press | My Dark Room 2023 @uchicagopress
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo192110828.html
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
Stephanie Insley Hershinow @sinsleyh.bsky.social Quite good: cook, reader, procrastinator. Decent: mom, writer, teacher. Terribly bad: athlete, winker, cat trainer. Reposts are jokes I wish I'd made first.
Stephanieinsleyhershinow.com
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
Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social post45 poetry, small press publishing, print culture, history of arts funding | Faculty in English @ U of Iowa | co-director of @nysnetwork.bsky.social | editor of books w/ Fonograf, City Lights, & Nightboat | book with Columbia UP | nicksturm.com
Daily Kos @dailykos.com News and more 👉 dailykos.com
Newsletters 👉 https://www.dailykos.com/newsletter/
Majority Report @majorityreport.bsky.social Hosted by Sam Seder & Emma Vigeland. MR is an unbought, unbossed daily political talk show. Awarded @PodcastAwards Best Political Podcast 5 times #LeftIsBest https://majorityreportradio.com/about
Scott Selisker @sselisker.bsky.social literature prof at U of Arizona. books: HUMAN PROGRAMMING (on metaphors for ideology), CHARACTER NETWORKS (on social networks in recent US fiction and history, out October 2026). he, suh-LISK-er, views mine, sporadically present here.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture