Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social Editorial Director of the Johns Hopkins University Press and acquiring editor for our Higher Ed. program.
“Oh, I used to be disgusted. And now I try to be amused….”
@drjoshmeyers.bsky.social @drjoshmeyers.bsky.social Recovering Academic and Sci-Fi connoisseur reporting from the North Shore
Ben Johnson @benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social I study history in order to understand and help others understand the crazy world in which we live. Environment, climate, borders, violence and memory are key. Also @refusing2forget.bsky.social. My opinions are mine, sadly almost never my employer's.
Peter Shulman deplores the Competitive Sycophancy @petershulman.bsky.social DC Statehood now! Bored to tears by people who complain about others not doing anything when they themselves aren't doing anything (beyond yelling at people to do something).
Alexandra Finley @alexfinley.bsky.social Historian of the U.S. Dog lady. Appalachian. Union member. Writing a lot of different things.
I can’t complain but I probably will.
dutchgirl @mrisseeuw.bsky.social Artist, genealogist, lecturer, writer: doing as much as I can as long as I can.
Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social Historian of transnational politics & religion between the US & Latin America. Postdoc, SDSU. Co-founder, @histcatmex.bsky.social. Social Media Officer, @iehs.bsky.social. Social justice. Foodie.
https://nathanellstrand.com/
Theatre History Podcast @theatrehistory.bsky.social Welcome to the Bluesky feed for the Theatre History Podcast. Keep up with the podcast and check out images, facts, and the occasional bit of backstage gossip from the theatrical past. 
Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Author, filmmaker, book dealer. New York and Dallas. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
@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. 
Stephanie Lawton, PhD @skaylawton.bsky.social not-quite-as-newbie history professor at a SLAC; CA girl in the South,
working on 19th c. US history, presidents, funerals, classics; creator of #histgym
Jack El-Hai @jackelhai.bsky.social #Author: THE NAZI & THE PSYCHIATRIST (adapted to movie NUREMBERG). Coming: THE CASE OF THE AUTOGRAPHED CORPSE. #Writer of DAMN #HISTORY newsletter. Bookstore: https://bookshop.org/shop/el-hai
Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social Culture Journalist for hire | Past: Senior Culture Reporter at HuffPost | Other Bylines: History.com, Bloomberg, Capital B News, Salon, Time, The Daily Beast, and many others | reeltalkonline@gmail.com | candicefrederick.contently.com
Dr Naomi Paxton @naomipaxton.bsky.social Freelance historian of the Actresses' Franchise League and suffrage theatre and entertainments... does books, talks, walks, radio, games, exhibitions, and workshops.
Also alter ego of award-winning comedy, cabaret & magic act Ada Campe
naomipaxton.co.uk
Emily Contois @emilycontois.bsky.social Media studies professor & faculty in residence at UTulsa // Books: Diners, Dudes & Diets (‘20) & Food Instagram (‘22) // emilycontois.com
Megan Birk @megbirk.bsky.social Historian, basset hound person, national park visitor, sloth hiking team (we get there when we get there), Costco member, wine drinker, etc… Author of Fostering on the Farm, and The Fundamental Institution - UIL press. Views my own and so forth
and so on 
Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social News columnist on staff at the Chicago Sun-Times since 1987, also blogging daily at everygoddamnday.com, and the author of nine books, the most recent being "Every Goddamn Day," published by the University of Chicago Press. 
Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social historian — Cornell U. professor — book author, “Troop Movements” (2026)
nicole froio @nicolefroio.bsky.social Doctor in Women's Studies | Reporter, editor, researcher | Co-founder of The Flytrap | she/her | hire me: nicolefroio@gmail.com | tip me on Signal: nicolefroio.57 | anarcho-feminist | Free Palestine
Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social Features Editor & Immigration Reporter @prismreports.org | co-founder @theflytrapmedia.com | tina@prismreports.org
s. e. smith @sesmith.lol that person with the peaches
national magazine award-winning culture critic & writer for hire
🌿 @theflytrapmedia.com cofounder
🐈⬛ 📖 ALL MY DEAD CATS AND OTHER LOSSES out now!
🖋️ get your grief advice on @allmydeadcats.com
✉️ sesmith at realsesmith.com
Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social Executive Director, Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation. Views are mine alone. Historian. Writer. Army veteran. Adjunct history instructor. Author of “The Last Lincoln Republican” (Univ. Press of Kansas, 2020). #ParkChat Hall of Famer. Pittsburgh sports fan.
Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social Professor of History at big public university in Midwest. Writes about money, French Revolution, restaurants. Friend to vert paleo.
ex UCL History; Yale SOM Visiting Fellow; Guggenheim and New America Fellow.
once/future Mainer
Atheist
Rosa Campbell @rosavcampbell.bsky.social Historian of global feminism & believer in 🏃💗 🦭🕊📚🏊♀️ 🌹 🍉
Author of The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared (April '26)
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King's College.
PhD from Cambridge. Homesick Australian.
www.rosa-campbell.com
Union for Democratic Communications @uniondemcomm.bsky.social Communication researchers, journalists, media producers, policy analysts, academics and activists dedicated to critical perspectives in communication theory, media production, and the study of popular culture | https://www.democraticcomm.org/
Kelly🍁 @kellyln.bsky.social Hiking keeps me sane, kinda.
Pro-democracy, pro-diversity, pro-choice, 2SLGBTQI+ rights, Indigenous rights
she/her London Canada
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
Nicole Fallert @nicolefallert.bsky.social Writing wellness @USATODAY / my first novel is forthcoming
Kristine Gunnell @kristinegunnell.bsky.social Kristine Gunnell is a historian who specializes in Women and Gender in the American West, especially the role of religious women in public and private life.
Sarah Handley-Cousins @sarahbelle721.bsky.social History prof in Buffalo | Civil War era, disability, medicine | Exec Editor, Nursing Clio | Prod, Dig: A History Podcast | she/her
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Editor.
My new book CLAIRE McCARDELL: THE DESIGNER WHO SET WOMEN FREE is out now and available wherever books are sold.
Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social Historian. #LFGM #LFC NYM-G-K-I. my opinions. he/him/his. Author of White Power: Policing American Slavery. And other stuff. Big Ron enthusiast.
Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social Writer for Performance. 2024 Guggenheim Fellow. Plays: Red Bike, 12 Ophelias, Iphigenia Crash Land Falls.... Film: Fugitive Dreams. Artistic Director of New Play Development at Lortel Theater/NY. Editor at Contemporary Theatre Review/UK. Views mine.
SCBernard @scbernard.bsky.social Emmy & Peabody Award-winning professor, filmmaker, author. Most recently, "Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies" (Cambridge University Press). "[A] necessary act of historical justice" - Rock & Roll Highway
June Blackwell 🏳️⚧️ @junipercapita.bsky.social Higher Ed advising, environmental history & sundry. Trans woman (she/her)
Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social Editor of American Theatre magazine, musical omnivore. trainmyear.blogspot.com
Ashley Lee @cashleelee.bsky.social Los Angeles Times entertainment and arts reporter. theater and thriving, in abundance. she/her is messy, but she's kind. ashley.lee@latimes.com
Peter Marks @petermarksdrama.bsky.social Recovering journalist, 21 years as WaPo's theater critic, 9 years before that at NYT as reporter and critic. Now host of theater podcast, Marks & Vincentelli marksvincentelli.substack.com
The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social Cultural critic and historian, author, podcaster, non-Zionist Jew. Co-host: CHARM OFFENSIVE. Writer: THE METHOD: HOW THE 20TH CENTURY LEARNED TO ACT
Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social Palestinian-American digital-internet pioneer. Non-profit, NGO founder. Scholar, analyst, consultant, lecturer. Humanist. MENA Peace and Reconciliation. Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies. Campari enthusiast. Dawg Mom. Yankees & Giants Fan.
NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social NOTCHES is a collaborative and international history of sexuality blog that aims to get people inside and outside the academy thinking about histories of sex and sexualities in the past and in the present across regions, periods and themes.
Justin Bengry @justinbengry.bsky.social Historian of Capitalism and the Pink Pound (he/him)
Writer | Speaker | Traveller
Editor: @historyworkshop.org.uk
Founder: @notchesblog.bsky.social
Convenor: @histsex.bsky.social
justinbengry.com
Alison Laurence @dinostalgia.bsky.social Cultural historian of extinction at work on DINOSTALGIA, a book about how dinosaurs became cultural artifacts, consumer goods, and spokes-creatures for consumption | History faculty @ San José State University
https://www.alisonlaurence.com
Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social Author POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT (Oct. 2025) on civil rights activists vs. state violence, surveillance, undercover officer infiltration | Historian, University of Baltimore | Bylines at The Nation, Jacobin, Slate
joshuaclarkdavis.com
Michael Connolly @mikeconnolly.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Loyola Chicago. Historian of the Gilded Age/Progressive Era. Proud 🇨🇦. Former Alberta NDP MLA. He/Him 🏳️🌈
Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era @shgape.bsky.social An organization of historians fostering knowledge of U.S. history from the close of the Civil War through the 1920s https://www.shgape.org/
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
Massachusetts Historical Society @mhs1791.bsky.social First Historical Society in the US, founded 1791.
Research library, programs, exhibitions & online resources.
www.masshist.org
Leora Tanenbaum @leoratanenbaum.bsky.social Passionate about equity. Nonprofit comms professional. Slut-shaming expert. Most recent book: “Sexy Selfie Nation"
leoratanenbaum.com
Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social Writer, presenter and consultant
researching the unexpected places where science, culture and consumerism meet. Nobody’s Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot (Aug 2026)
https://linktr.ee/lucyjanesantos_
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.”
Nicholas Orsillo @nickorsillo.bsky.social I'm an academic copy editor, proofreader, and Czech-to-English translator; would-be historian; and keeper of life in glass boxes. www.nicholasorsillo.com
Virginia Olmsted McGraw @omgphd.bsky.social Historian of Soviet History, Fashion, Cultural Cold War
All opinions are my own. 
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians @berksconference.bsky.social A professional organization for women historians and historians of women, gender and sexualities. We welcome historians at all points of their career, from students to retirees and from all professional contexts.
Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social History is for everyone. Every way of doing history is worthwhile. Historians should be paid for their work. www.contingentmagazine.org
Elaine Maguire O’Connor @wigsandgowns.bsky.social Writer, Law, Culture etc.
www.wigsandgowns.com
Katie Tibaldi @katietibaldi.bsky.social Nomadic Writer/Director/Producer for 🎥📺. WGA Captain. Co-Founder of WGAStrikeUnite. Sundance Fellow Alum. Recents: Harlem, At Home With Amy Sedaris, Street Fighting Men, Community Patrol, others. Suspicious of people who don’t like the Great Lakes.
Zócalo Public Square @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social We combine public programs and journalism to examine essential questions in a broad-minded and accessible spirit.
A unit of ASU Media Enterprise.- P JP @pliley.bsky.social Cat aficionado.
Dr. Erica Johnson @drericajohnson.bsky.social Associate Prof. of History at Francis Marion University, Editor for @AgeofRevs, Codirector of AAAS, USS faculty coordinator, LACS-SHA treasurer, she/her
Laura Ping @lauraping51.bsky.social 
Brittany Wong @brittanywong.bsky.social Senior lifestyle reporter at HuffPost covering relationships, internet culture, gender, work life & more. Born-and-raised Angeleno. https://www.instagram.com/binnywong/
Pitches/story tips/pics of your dogs: brittany.wong@huffpost.com
Noliwe Rooks @nrooks.bsky.social Chair and Professor, Brown University, Africana Studies. Author of Integrated: How Schools in America Failed Black Children, available 3/18/25 and A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune.
Sara Georgini @sarageorgini.bsky.social Historian & Series Editor, The Adams Papers, MHS. PhD.📚Household Gods, Our Library in Paris, Oxford Handbook of Family History & Genealogy, Americans in Revolution. Views mine, history for all.
Actors' Equity Association @actorsequity.bsky.social The American performing arts labor union representing professional theatre actors & stage managers since 1913. #EquityWorks 
Manuscript Wish List® @manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social 📚The new, non-Twitter home of #MSWL! We are a way for agents and editors to tell writers what they *wish* they had in their inboxes. Full agent profiles here: https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/ Newsletter: https://manuscriptwishlist.com/subscribe 
Stephanie Richmond @profrichmond.bsky.social Historian of gender and race in the Atlantic world. Currently working on a #digitalhistory project tracing Virginians trafficked in the domestic slave trade. Parenting, pet photos, knitting and fiddle playing may also appear.
LC Santangelo @lcsantangelo.bsky.social Historian, Teacher, Parent. Author of Suffrage and the City (Oxford, 2019). Opinions mine.
Kimba Stahler @kimberlystahler.bsky.social Historian.
Podcast: Visions of Democracy.
Carolyn Eichner @eichnercarolyn.bsky.social Historian 19th c. France & empire; gender, race, & sexuality; social movements; Paris Commune;
names.
Rachel B. Gross @rachelbgross.bsky.social Studying U.S. Jews and finding religion in unexpected places | Assoc. Prof. at SF State | Author: Beyond the Synagogue | Now: Mary Antin’s spiritual adventures | https://linktr.ee/rachelbgross
Roberto Filippello @robertofilippel.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media & Culture at University of Amsterdam | Author of DRESSED FOR DISSENT: DECOLONIAL FASHION & THE QUEER STRUGGLE FOR PALESTINE (UC Press, October 2026) 🇵🇸
Tim Appelo @timappelo.bsky.social Film/TV editor/writer, past at: Hollywood Reporter,EW,The Nation, LAT,NYT,got Bezos to buy IMDb, taught him Beatles lore. Amazon's last human homepage editor, launch editor, what's now Prime Video.
Adam Shprintzen @veghistory.bsky.social Food historian, baseball fan, cat enthusiast, no longer suffering Knicks fan.
The Saturday Evening Post @satevepost.bsky.social The Saturday Evening Post is America's oldest magazine, with issues dating back to 1821. We feature articles on culture, people, health, history, and humor, with a side of short fiction. Get it online or in print.
Liz Covart @lizcovart.bsky.social Historian of the American Revolution | Bostonian |🎙️ Ben Franklin’s World | 🐾 Mother of schnauzers | I help adults see how early America shapes today.
https://linktr.ee/lizcovart
Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social feminisms, projects, popular cultures 📚
| Literary Tour of the US, The Great Courses
| 12 Stories by American Women, Penguin Classics
| Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures, NYU
| Writing Against Reform, UMass
Prof @ UWyo 🏔️ views own
👐www.ArielleZibrak.com👐
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social historian at Oxford co-editor of Modern British History (OUP). author of The Solidarity Economy (PUP 2024) https://shorturl.at/qxFJ8
Nimisha Barton @nimishabarton.bsky.social Writer, Educator, DEI Practitioner. Starting fall 2026 Asst Prof at CSU Long Beach. Author of Reproductive Citizens & A Just Future w/Cornell University Press. Co-President of Coordinating Council for Women in History. Rogue scholar. Rage writer.
Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social I write about fashion and gender at https://gendermystique.substack.com/
I write about other things at https://substack.com/@jopaoletti
I also knit. alot.
https://blog.umd.edu/jopaoletti/
I block randos.
Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social Gender & History is the major international journal for research and writing on the history of femininity and masculinity and of gender relations. 
Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social Historian. Writer. Professor at NYU. Author most recently of My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering.
Roxy Szal @roxyszal.bsky.social reporter, managing digital editor @msmagazine.com, former Texas teacher.
rszal@msmagazine.com (she, her)
Rachel Syme @rachsyme.bsky.social Writer. Woman about town. Here now, I guess. 
Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social Film historian, author MOVIE-STRUCK GIRLS & LOIS WEBER IN EARLY HYWD, curator PIONEERS: FIRST WOMEN FMKRS, editor Feminist Media Histories book series. Quoted NPR, NY Times, LA Times, Guardian & more.
Dr. Felicia Kornbluh @vtfeminist.bsky.social Historian; Gender Studies scholar; Book & article writer - Repro, Gender, Politics, American Jewish stuff
Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social Historian of Early America, Brooklyn College & Graduate Center, CUNY. Leading AHA wit. Latest AmRev book: "The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution" 🔥 Dad, Mets fan, fantasy reader
Noam Maggor @maggor.bsky.social Historian of capitalism
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
Dr. C. G. Yaudes @cgyaudesphd.bsky.social Journal of American History copy editor | historian of labor and media| Indiana University labor history professor | Hoosier Ph.D. / posts are all mine
https://academic.oup.com/jah/
LaShawn Harris @madameclair08.bsky.social Bronx Raised | Historian | Writer | Prof | Author of Author of Sex Workers, Psychics, & Numbers Runners (University of Illinois Press, 2016)
Natanya Duncan, PhD @garveyitewmn.bsky.social Daughter, Sister, Aunt, Historian, Researcher/Writer, Author, Teacher, Child of the Black Diaspora
Rachel Tashjian @theprophetpizza.bsky.social Fashion Writer at The Washington Post
Katherine Massoth, PhD @kmassotphd.bsky.social Historian. Educator. Associate Professor @ the University of New Mexico. 📚🌵Chair of the Coalition for Western Women's History (CWWH). *Keeping House* coming soon from the David Weber Series at UNC Press.
Dan Sullivan @dansullifan.bsky.social Screenwriter, Axe Thrower, and DGA Assistant Director on your favorite TV Shows & Movies.
Check out my writing - www.DanSulliFan.com
Sarah J. Purcell @sarahjpurcell.bsky.social (She/her) Historian-Teacher-Sometime Digital Humanist. Latest book: Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era from @UNC_Press
Eileen Boris @eileenboris.bsky.social Feminist historian of intimate labors, race and gender, home as a workplace and domestic labor. Activist scholar on care. UCSB Hull Chair.Vice-President of LAWCHA
Likes yoga, hiking, and fashion
Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society @hagleycenter.bsky.social Center for advanced studies in the history of business, technology, and society at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. Grants and Fellowships. Public programs. Scholarly community. Tune in to the Hagley History Hangout podcast!
Katherine Turk @katherineturk.bsky.social Writer (Equality on Trial, The Women of NOW), Historian, Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. Words in The Atlantic, Washington Post, Slate, LARB, Jacobin, etc. Carrboro NC