Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social Historian of slavery in the Native South. Also interested in empires and anti-slavery. Lecturer in Early American History at KCL.
Will Ranger @willranger.bsky.social History PhD Candidate at UCL- research interests include collective memory and patriotism in the modern US
Pete Millwood @petemillwood.bsky.social Historian of US-China relations. Author of Improbable Diplomats (CUP, 2022). Lecturer in East Asian History, Melbourne Uni; currently Kluge Fellow at LoC
Mark Shanahan @markshanahan.bsky.social Political historian into US & UK politics. Educator, political commentator, writer and speaker. Sometimes on the radio/TV. Follower of the mighty Wycombe Wanderers & the underperforming Middlesex CCC. Into books, theatre & jangly guitars.
Jon Coburn @joncoburn.bsky.social Mediocre historian. University of Lincoln, UK
| US history | activism | protest suicide | information literacy |
Jacob Bruggeman @jacobbruggeman.bsky.social Intellectual & political historian writing on hackers, libertarians, and tech in the modern US | Examining the ideologies in/of Silicon Valley | Friend, Neighbor, Cat Dad & Baltimorean
Whiskey Rebellion Podcast @whiskeyrebelpod.bsky.social An American History Podcast, hosted by @davidsilkenat and @frankcogliano
https://whiskeyrebellion.podbean.com/
Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social Leverhulme ECF on modern British manuscripts & the American archive @ RHUL | Dickens & life-writing | On BBC Radio 3 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jt6c
Connall MacLennan @connallmaclennan.bsky.social PhDing at UCL's Institute of the Americas researching queer southern religious histories 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
@christawirth.bsky.social @christawirth.bsky.social Historian in Europe: Cold War, Migration, Anthropology, Gender, Empire, Global History, USA, Philippines, Europe. This is my personal account.
Lewis Twiby @lewisrhystwiby.bsky.social Warwick University History PhD specialising in the US-Mexican border
I write a blog on history and natural history
https://lewisrhystwiby.wordpress.com/
They/them
natalicinelli.bsky.social @natalicinelli.bsky.social PhD in International Relations | King's College London + Universidade de São Paulo
CEDAW | Women's Rights | History of Feminisms
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org The TPHA was established in 1884. We are the authority on Paine's life and have been assisting scholars for decades. Located in New Rochelle, NY. Visit us at thomaspaine.org. "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
Kyle Harvey @kyle-harvey.bsky.social Historian of migration, media, radicalism, oral history & memory in AU/NZ/US/Pacific. Based in Naarm/Melbourne.
Richard Saich @richardsaich.bsky.social Fellow @lsehistory | History of Globalization, Neoliberalism, Social Movements | 🌱 🏳️🌈 he/him | http://richardsaich.com
SASA @scotamstudies.bsky.social The Scottish Association for the Study of America was formed in 1999 to encourage and facilitate the study of America in Scotland.
Northumbria History @northumbriahistory.bsky.social History at Northumbria University combines quality teaching with a vibrant research culture. #TakeOnYesterday
martha shearer @marthashearer.bsky.social asst prof in film studies. post-2008 film/tv + real estate • nyc + hollywood musical • musicals at the margins • women and new hollywood. she/her
https://letterboxd.com/pauseforthejet/
Dr. Genevieve Johnson @drgenevievej.bsky.social Historian specialising in American history and transatlantic anti-slavery. Interested in reading books, drinking coffee, and a Free Palestine.
Bailey Barnes @baileydbarnes.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law at Mizzou | Civil Rights, Federal Courts, Constitutional Law, & Civil Procedure | Rural Appalachian | Views My Own
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
Dr Stephen Colbrook @stephencolbrook.bsky.social Historian of HIV/AIDS and the American state. Author of forthcoming book, Patchwork Pandemic, on the state response to AIDS in the U.S. from Kansas Press: https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700641093/.
Sarah Mackay @smgthomson.bsky.social Curator @natlibscot.bsky.social 📚
Marianne Quijano @mrnnqui.bsky.social she/her • phd in latam history • 🇵🇦🇵🇭
Dr Matthew Hefler @matthefler.bsky.social Historian. International History and Intelligence Studies. AJI Postdoctoral Fellow. Former Press Secretary to the Premier of Nova Scotia.
mina @minarigthom.bsky.social PhD candidate, LSE International History | Cold War, US foreign policy, history of international relations
Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social Historian 🗃️| Associate Professor.
Books: Harvard UP; 2026 The New Press.
Bylines: Conversation; WaPo; Guardian.
She/her 🌈 | Personal account
Society for the History of Women in the Americas @shaw-society.bsky.social The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) is a diverse scholarly association dedicated to the historical investigation related to the history of women and gender non-conforming individuals in the Americas.
Lucy Kelly @lucyekelly.bsky.social 🌸Incomprehensible Chattering
🌸PhD in American History @ Sussex
Michael Brenes @mbrenes.bsky.social Historian at Yale.Non-Resident Fellow @cipolicy.bsky.social. New book: “The Rivalry Peril: How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy.” Next: a history of the War on Terror for Grove Atlantic. Avi by @seanandrewmurray.bsky.social.
Ilaria Scaglia @ilariascaglia.bsky.social History Senior Lecturer at Aston University in Birmingham, UK. Author of The Emotions of Internationalism (OUP, 2020) and co-editor of Archives and Emotions (2024).
Internationalism, culture, archives, emotions.
Views are mine. https://ilariascaglia.com
Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social Historian studying Latin America, social movements, human rights, transitional justice, USFP, sports.
Author: Of Light and Struggle (Penn 2023). Co-editor: Uruguay In Transnational Perspective (Routledge 2023)
Paula Murphy @paula-murphy.bsky.social PhD student at Northumbria University | Cultural historian researching 1970s Hip Hop in the Bronx | formerly at Norfolk Museums |
Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social Historian, Hayes Chair @OhioState Mershon Ctr Carnegie Fellow 6 Books: Ideology in US Foreign Relations, Rethinking American Grand Strategy, Promise & Peril. Isolationism, Internationalism, Globalization. ⚾️
Madison @mlyonhart.bsky.social Doctoral Candidate👩🎓 Historian 👩🏻💻
I'm a doctoral student at the University of Oxford. My work looks at US History, particularly the intersections of 20th Century Evangelicalism, Gender, Masculinity, the Vietnam War, and the rise of the Religious Right.
Caleb Woodall @calebwoodall.bsky.social Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Cambridge, researching conscientious objection in World War II America
Sandra Scanlon @sandrascanlon.bsky.social Historian of the US at University College Dublin
Social Movements, Cold War, Vietnam, Iraq, History of American Conservatism, author The Pro-War Movement
http://umasspress.com/9781625340184/…
Liz Barnes @embarnes.bsky.social Historian of rape in the Civil War Era US South at the University of Reading. She/her.
https://genderedstateviolence.com 
Hardeep Dhillon @migrantherstory.bsky.social she/her/hers
historian of immigration & law
Asst Prof @PennHistory
PhD @ Harvard
https://www.history.upenn.edu/people/hardeep-dhillon
SHAFR @shafrhistorians.bsky.social The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
est. 1967
Ronan Mainprize @ronanmainprize.bsky.social Ax:son Johnson Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communication
Research on intelligence, statecraft, and strategy • Writing a book on Lyndon Johnson, the CIA, and the Global Cold War • University of Warwick PhD
Daniel Castaneda @historydaniel.bsky.social PhD Candidate | UC Davis - Go Ags! | Political History | Latina/o/x Politics | California History
Piccolo Seaplanes @wildblueponder.bsky.social PT PhD student by night - interested in the representation of military aviators in popular culture. A librarian for the USAF by day. Easily distracted at all times by biathlon, geopolitical arguments, rugby, murder mysteries, or livestreams of airfields.
Clio and the Contemporary @cliocontemporary.bsky.social Connecting history to the present—articles, teaching materials, & advice for the contemporary historian | Accepting submissions | Eds @malszy.bsky.social & @sarahking.bsky.social | #bskystorians | clioandthecontemporary.com
Amy Erdman Farrell @amyefarrell.bsky.social professor of American studies and women's, gender and sexuality studies; writer; author of Yours in Sisterhood; Fat Shame; and the forthcoming Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA
Cameron Sparkhall @sparkygooner29.bsky.social PhD. American Modern History. UEA. Associate Tutor. The Arsenal.
Graham Cross @grahamcross.bsky.social Historian of American and Anglo-American diplomacy and war at MMU. Lifelong obsession with the 8th Air Force, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Suffolk. Views my own.
Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social UCL PhD in Christmas Film History • MA in Comic Books • MPhil in Demons • Creator of https://blackwhiteandread.com/ • Author of Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy (2025) • Wife of My Favorite Person • she/her
Tamara Boussac @tamaraboussac.bsky.social MCF en études nord-américaines à Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Frank Cogliano @frankcogliano.bsky.social Professor of American History, University of Edinburgh. Author (with Peter S. Onuf) of Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours (Liveright, 2026).
Justin F Jackson, Ph.D. @justinfdjackson.bsky.social justinfjackson.com
Historian, author of The Work of Empire: War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines (UNC Press, 2025)
Josh Kluever @joshkluever.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Marshall University | Studies Socialist State Legislators | Managing Editor @cliocontemporary.bsky.social | Social Media Director for @midwesternhistory.bsky.social | Host of @heartlandhistory.bsky.social | Solidarity Forever🌹
Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social JD/PhD | THREAT OF DISSENT: A HISTORY OF IDEOLOGICAL EXCLUSION AND DEPORTATION IN THE UNITED STATES | https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674292352 | Posts are mine, not the views of my employer. ❤️ & Reposts are not endorsements.
American Nineteenth Century History Journal @anchistjournal.bsky.social Social media profile for the journal American Nineteenth Century History: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fanc20
Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social Asst Prof, American Studies @ JFK Institute, FU Berlin - knowledge cultures, book studies, literary institutions, AmLit C19-C21
Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard, Author of, among other books, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings:An American Controversy,The Hemingses of Monticello,, Vernon Can Read: A Memoir with Vernon Jordan, On Juneteenth
Kentucky Historical Society @kyhistsoc.bsky.social 🏛️ The guardian and voice of Kentucky’s past – documenting, clarifying, and preserving the stories that define our Commonwealth.
Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung.bsky.social No longer actively using this account. Find me here: https://tinyurl.com/5y7htysf
Comparative American Studies @compamstudies.bsky.social Comparative American Studies is an international, interdisciplinary journal. Edited by @rachmclennan.bsky.social and @thomasruyssmith.com. Send us your articles and special issue suggestions!
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ycas20
Dr Matthew O'Brien @mattob90.bsky.social A PhD survivor lecturing in oral history and academic writing. Research interests include 20th century urban racial activism in the United States, urban history, and policing. Fulbright Commission of Ireland Alumnus 2019/20.
Dr Mara Oliva @maraoliva.bsky.social Historian, Digital Humanist, Associate Prof of 20th century US History @ Uni of Reading, Visiting Fellow @ British Library Eccles Centre, Editor @ DHQuarterly, US-UK Fulbright alumni 
Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College. Political scientist. Constitutional law & development, US migration(s) & citizenship law, legal history. ORDER my book: https://tinyurl.com/2sjcsupd Home cook, foodie.
Hidetaka Hirota @hidehirota.bsky.social Historian of US immigration. Teaches at UC Berkeley. Vice President of @iehs.bsky.social. Author of Expelling the Poor (Oxford). Writing books on foreign contract labor law and on transpacific Japanese migration.
Reetta Humalajoki @reettaeh.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow, University of Turku, Finland; Historian specializing in U.S. and Canadian history & Indigenous policy, settler colonialism, activism, solidarity, cultural appropriation; she/her.
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
J. Michelle Coghlan @jmcoghlan.bsky.social C19 literary critic & cultural historian. Author of Louise Michel in America (Rutgers UP 2027) + Sensational Internationalism. Editor of NY: A Literary Anthology + the CC to Literature and Food. UCU NEC member. She/her.
https://www.j-michelle-coghlan.com
Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social Historian of birth control/suffrage/abortion law and policy. Book: "Women's Votes, Doctors' Rights: The Making of the American Birth Control Movement" coming soon with Rutgers UP. Asst Prof @kennesawstate; Fellow @GSU_HealthLaw; @UVa alum
Robert O'Sullivan @rosulli.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Oxford and Jesus College
Historian of Immigration, Race and Nationalism in 19th Century USA.
Finishing book on Irish-American views on imperialism and anti-slavery 1840-1865
Amanda @amandastafford.bsky.social Accidental academic - underground newspapers, movies, yoga, all too infrequent writing, plants. 🌱 militant FE lecturer & PGR in US History at the University of Leeds. Green Menace.
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.
Christyn Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in history. Views my own. Historian of US politics and sexuality, especially Sumner Welles. Canadian. Non-binary (she/they) Fabulous.
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
views are all mine 💫
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/
Emma Ann Hall @emmaannhall.bsky.social PhD from @PAISWarwick | American exceptionalism in US history education | US foreign policy | Campaign rhetoric | Costume design enthusiast | YNWA
Katie Fapp @katiefapp.bsky.social Historian of transnational women's suffrage, departmental lecturer at University of Oxford; film fanatic on the side 
BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social Association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
We welcome members from the UK, US & beyond
Affiliated with American Nineteenth Century History (ANCH)
Find out more about us: https://www.branch.org.uk/
MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social Scholarly books from University Presses. News and info from across academia. Part of the Mare Nostrum Group. Based in Harrogate, UK.
Adam Smith @aipsmith.bsky.social Professor of US Political History at Oxford. Director of the Rothermere American Institute. Research conservatism, parties, Civil War. Host of The Last Best Hope? Podcast. 
Laura Wilson @willaurason.bsky.social 
American Historical Association @historians.org The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions.
http://historians.org/join
TheSouthernSHA @thesouthernsha.bsky.social The SHA formed in 1934 with a mandate to take an investigative rather than a memorial approach to southern history. We have been investigating ever since.
Mara Keire @marakeire.bsky.social Historian of sexual violence. Should come with a content warning. Has strong opinions about the importance of gossip past and present. 
Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social I teach American history at Cambridge. Views/opinions strictly personal. Content 40% political, 30% historical, 30% cat photos but ratio under constant review
Dean Clay @drdeanclay.bsky.social Historian of activism & empire (US & transnational). Lecturer in History at Uni of Hull. NUFC fan (& Milan occasionally too).
www.congofreestate.com | www.bihg.ac.uk
Tynelines.substack.com
Brian Ward @brian222ward.bsky.social Prof Emeritus in American Studies; wrote some books on US history and culture; writing ‘She Loves Y’all’ a book on the Beatles and the US South; Come on You Irons!
Kate Dossett @katedossett.bsky.social Historian of theatre, culture, archives; Author of Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal; Collaborator on STAGING THE ARCHIVE: bringing to life plays by Black Theatre Makers working in early 20th Century Britain in the Lord Chamberlain’s Plays Collection.
Clive Webb @clivewebb.bsky.social Historian and author, University of Sussex. Regular contributor to Shindig! magazine.
Xine Yao PhD (she/they) @xineyaophd.bsky.social DISAFFECTED: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF UNFEELING @DukePress | @phdivaspodcast | Associate Professor | BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | Co-Director @qUCL.bsky.social | rhymes w fine
from the colonies
https://www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected
robyn shooter (she/her) @robynshooter.bsky.social american & cultural studies phd @kings college london: genre, representation & community in americana music
Tom Cryer @thomascryer.bsky.social Lecturer in US History @ Oxford | host @NewBooksNetwork | Comms @ HistoryLab+ | Aldrich Fellow @ HistoryofEducationSociety
Historian of education, ideas, and memory in 20th-C America. Mostly RT's!
Anne-Marie Angelo @dr-ama.bsky.social Historian at University of Sussex: transnational race, gender, imperialism, migration C19-20. TV writer. Daughter, aunt, Shawn's sister. She/her. Hove/Virginia Beach. Own opinions.
American Studies @ Northumbria @nuamstudies.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the Northumbria University American Studies Research Group.
Olivia Wright @owright.bsky.social Lecturer in History at Leeds Beckett University. Chair of the Society for the History of Women in the Americas
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social I write about media, race, rights, Chicago, other stuff. History prof at UCL. Author of 5 books of varying quality. I like fixed gear bikes and being outside.
Dr Stephen E. Mawdsley @smawdsley.bsky.social Historian of modern American medicine and disability
Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences, University of Bristol
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/stephen-e-mawdsley
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
@lewiskjohnson.bsky.social @lewiskjohnson.bsky.social PhD @ University of Edinburgh. Political historian. Republican Party/U.S South 1940s/1950s.