Terri Halperin @terridhalperin.bsky.social Historian of the Early American Republic; author of The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Testing the Constitution
DemocracyDiary @nanesenkron.bsky.social Watching the news so you don't have to
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
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).
J. L. Bell @boston1775.bsky.social History, analysis & unabashed gossip about Revolutionary New England.
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OIEAHC (Omohundro Institute) @oieahc.bsky.social We support the scholars and scholarship of early America, broadly understood to mean the Atlantic World between roughly the 1480s and 1820. We publish the William and Mary Quarterly and a series of award-winning books as well as sponsor conferences & more.
Julia Gaffield, PhD @juliagaffield.bsky.social Historian (she/her)
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300255478/i-have-avenged-america/
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
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Thomas Paine @americancrisis1776.bsky.social “These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”
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Sleepless in Seattle @nosleepnseattle.bsky.social Autistic pattern seeker. Prolific reposter. Aficionado of WWII history. Ocean and forest explorer. Wannabe freediver. Seashell collector and bibliophile. Neurodivergent advocate. #ActuallyAutistic
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Hazel Ann @hazelann1.bsky.social Fellow quilters, have you found #quiltsky?
Disabled Veteran, Quilter, Alto & Tenor, retired ACSM RCEP, Clinical Exercise Physiologist, former runner, wife, mother, Bubby, Beginagainer.
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Keith Grant @keithsgrant.bsky.social PhD in History | Historian of early North America, Emotions, and Book Culture | Assoc Prof at Crandall University | CoEditor http://earlycanadianhistory.ca
David Petr 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 @davidpetr4.bsky.social MDiv., USAF Retired. Historian and Theologian, telling the truth about America and Religion, warts and all. #FactsMatter #Resist #Birdland #RavensFlock
Nancy Dickinson @nancydickinson.bsky.social Business lawyer. Investor in Bluesky. Pro bono indep academic developing a proposed contemporary “right of the child in the family context”. Fan & student of the “actual text & legal origins” of the US Constitution (by contrast to “[faux] originalism”).
Paula Clarke Bain @baindex.org Book indexer, editor, boss at baindex.org | Society of Indexers Chair and Fellow | CIEP APM | Cryptic crossword novice setter Pixie | Stockport, UK
🧚🏻 www.mycrossword.co.uk/Pixie
See also
@indexers.bsky.social
www.indexers.org.uk
#IndexSky
Lisa Gold: Research Maven @lisagold.bsky.social Freelance researcher, fact-checker, writer, and rare book expert. I do creative research for authors. Married to novelist Matt Ruff (Lovecraft Country).
Chris Beneke @historyball.bsky.social Teacher, Part-Time Administrator, Baseball Fan, Despot Hater.
New book here: https://tinyurl.com/3n4pmuav
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/
American Philosophical Society @amphilsociety.bsky.social Promoting Useful Knowledge Since 1743 | amphilsoc.org
Historical Society of Pennsylvania @historicalpa.bsky.social Philadelphia's Library of American History
#MakeHistoryYours
https://www.portal.hsp.org/
National Constitution Center @constitutionctr.bsky.social The Museum of We the People. America's Town Hall. Civic Education Headquarters.
Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracy—a lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird & Rosie the Resistance Bird.
https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755
Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social Historian, writer, and teacher of early American gender, culture, & politics; Assoc. Prof; Public Historian; Author of FIRST FAMILY (Hanover Square) & FOUNDING FRIENDSHIPS(OUP)
cassandragoodhistorian.com | same handle on insta & Mastodon
John Fea @johnfea1.bsky.social Historian at Lumen Center (Madison, WI) and Messiah University. Author of 6 books. Blogger and podcaster at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. #LGM #Bruuuuuce!
Association for Documentary Editing @editorial-notes.bsky.social An organization dedicated to the highest professional standards of accuracy of transcription, editorial method, and conceptual indexing.
2025 Annual Meeting Program: https://www.documentaryediting.org/wordpress/?page_id=3277
elaboratories_at_uva @elaboratories.bsky.social A diverse community of practitioners engaged in making source materials accessible, discoverable, or (re)imaginable.
Visit: https://elaboratories.org/
Friends Journal @friendsjournal.org Friends Publishing is a non-profit organization dedicated to communicating Quaker experience in order to connect & deepen spiritual lives. Friends Journal is our flagship publication, with a legacy that goes back to 1827.
Roosevelt Montas @rooseveltmontas.bsky.social John and Margaret Bard Professor in Liberal Education and Civic Life at Bard College. Author of “Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed my Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation” (Princeton UP, 2021)
Johann Neem @johannneem.bsky.social Scholar of the American Revolution and the Early American Republic, education. Author of "What's the Point of College? Seeking Purpose in an Age of Reform" and "Democracy's Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America." Website: https://johannneem.com
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
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
David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social Historian, CUNY Graduate Center. The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley (Farrar Straus & Giroux/ Picador), Slavery's Constitution, & Runaway America (Hill and Wang). More at www.bostonreview.net/authors/david-waldstreicher
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
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
@svateboje.bsky.social @svateboje.bsky.social My take: Using Berger & Luckmann we can helpfully synthesize poli sci results on affect polarization + partisan media/internet/social-media.
also, i tend to talk too much re folks like Voegelin & Ricoeur
or, notes to self from another planet
Mark R. Cheathem @markcheathem.bsky.social Historian, documentary editor, and writer. Views are my own. https://linktr.ee/markcheathem
Oxford Seminar for Epistolary Research @oser-oxford.bsky.social The Oxford Seminar for Epistolary Research is an interdisciplinary forum for anyone interested in letters from all geographical locations and historical time periods. Meetings take place fortnightly at Harris Manchester College, Oxford.
Jonathan Gienapp @jgienapp.bsky.social Professor of History and Law, Stanford University. Books on early Constitution: http://tinyurl.com/yynk95aa; and originalism and history: http://tinyurl.com/3dd5hnt6
jonathangienapp.com
Jack Rakove @jrakove.bsky.social Native Cook County Democrat, Cubs fan, and long-time historian of the American Revolution and Constitution
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