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/)
Heidi Keller-Lapp, Ph.D. @heidikl.bsky.social Historian of 17th-18thc France, colonies, nuns, religious texts, med recipes, gender/sex. I teach teachers, writers, voyagers, & other curious minds. I hang out with beagles, sons, sisters (blood and soul), & my first love. #earlymodernwomen #nuntastic
Enrique Arribas-Garde @garde24.bsky.social Theoretical physicist researching radiofrequency electromagnetic fields and exposure (RF-EMF). Fascinated by magnets since childhood. Físico teórico investigando la exposición a campos electromagnéticos de radiofrecuencia. Amante de los imanes desde niño.
Miguel Angel Chavez @miguelchavez.bsky.social Historian // Assistant Prof. at Cumberland University / PhD @Vanderbilt.edu / historian of exploration and travelers in Africa, #histSTM, geography, and the British Empire 🗃️ // Texan and Chicano // views here are my own.
- miguelchavez.net
@gorgonster.bsky.social @gorgonster.bsky.social Museum librarian, coffee lover, and bibliophile. Majored in classical languages as an undergrad.
Mary Savig @marysavig.bsky.social Curator of Craft, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. 🎪
Jen Wingate @wingatejen.bsky.social Art historian & former prof; material culture & sculpture enthusiast; putting one foot in front of the other https://jenniferwingate.hcommons.org/publications/
Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social Professor of art history at Portland State University. Author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting (Yale University Press) and some other stuff. 2 parts Weltschmerz, 1 part vermouth
Oliver Wunsch @owunsch.bsky.social Art history professor at Boston College
Deborah Schlein @djschle.bsky.social Near Eastern Studies librarian | Middle East, South Asia research | manuscripts, marginalia, mild mayhem | history of medicine and science | PhD
julia silverman @realrupertmurdoch.bsky.social phd candidate in art history at h*rv*rd; semi-professional chismosa
Joanna Fiduccia @joannafiduccia.bsky.social asst. prof in the history of art at Yale | writing about modernism, attention, automatism, ornament | Figures of Crisis: Alberto Giacometti and the Myths of Nationalism (Yale UP 2026)
anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social Historian of religion, visual culture, sexuality
Mostly nerdy academic stuff & whippet pics
Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, & the Culture Wars (OUP 2025)
After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion (OUP 2015)
https://linktr.ee/anthonypetro
Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨ @wolfproofpress.com friendly prints for feral people!! 🏳️⚧️🎨🌈⚖️
Store.WolfproofPress.com = help me raise $ for an accessible press & mutual aid fundraiser prints? 💪💜
amanda wyatt visconti (they/them)
yr letterpress/Luddite coder/humanities pal
free high fives & exclamation marks
Alana Kumbier @alanacutandpaste.bsky.social Zines, libraries & archives, making things with paper.
Jasmine Crockett @jasmineforus.bsky.social Candidate for US Senate | Congresswoman #TX30 | Civil Rights & Criminal Attorney | Progressive | Fmr. St. Rep. HD100 | DST 1913 🐘🔥| She/Her/Ella | #TEXASTOUGH
John McQuillen @bookishjohn.bsky.social Early printed books and bindings at the Morgan Library & Museum (New York City). My husband says that I fondle Gutenberg Bibles for a living. Sometimes we are in the Catskills.
He/him 🏳️🌈
Wheatley Census @wheatleycensus.bsky.social Locating and describing all extant copies of Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects before 1909. Directed by @jsench.bsky.social & @brigfield.bsky.social. www.wheatleycensus.org
Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social Religious Studies, Indigenous Studies, Queer Studies in Early America. UPenn Postdoc on Lenapehoking. Archival and Mushroom Nerd. Chronic Former Gifted Kid.
onpolitics.news @onpolitics.news Dive Deep into Democracy. https://onpolitics.news is a political news and media aggregator with the latest articles, videos, podcasts and social posts. Top new articles posted here every hour.
Support the journalists and their publishers.
Lost History Books @losthistorybooks.bsky.social Explorer of American textbooks. 🔎
Bibliographic Adventurer 📚
Independent Researcher 📖
Help me find lost books:
http://losthistorybooks.com/help-me/
✨ Sparkle Monica ✨ @monicacarmean.bsky.social ⚖️ 🐕 🧀 🗳️ 💙
"10/10 Sparkle Monica for real. maximum respect" - @TheMountainGoats
Aurora C @theaurorac.bsky.social Lawyer by day (but only for children), Muay Thai fighting fire eater by night, semi-southpaw Romany Gypsy curmudgeon all the time. Fiddler, 9/11 first responder, former aerialist, flâneuse. Union strong. Barrister and Solicitor, Esq.
Katie Warczak @katiewarczak.bsky.social Human companion to a horse (Impulse) and cat (Nella Larsen); Ph.D in English and African American Studies with research interests in the intersections of race, animality, disability, and pseudoscience.
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Digital Newberry @digitalnewberry.bsky.social Exploring the Newberry Library's digital collections: rare maps, historical documents, postcards, and unexpected finds. Browse, discover, and help us transcribe. Free and open to all.
@wonderinall.bsky.social @wonderinall.bsky.social 
@mschulman.bsky.social @mschulman.bsky.social Copy editor and scourge of scare quotes, former long-term adjunct/academia fringer, sometime fiction writer, native New Yorker, fan of abortion, unions, and transit access. Always already angry at Israel and ADL. Used to tweet for Uni Kent precariat. 
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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Mary Flannery @15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social Explorer of books, lover of words. Developmental editor and grant-writer by day, humorist by night. Substacking at Page by Page.
Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social Book historian, rare books curator Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp. Opinions mine, I may be wrong, follow/like isn't endorsement. He/him. Caregiver for a partner with Long Covid. Used to be @RareBookLibAntw on Twitter. Profile pic by LUCID.
Josh O’Driscoll @jodriscoll.bsky.social Manuscript curator at the Morgan Library, among other things.
Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social Welsh 🏴 Early Medievalist. Manuscripts, Archives, Text Technologies, Early British literature. Author of Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts (OUP, 2021) and Disrupting Categories, 1050-1250 (ARC, 2024), etc. Living in California, but Ceredigion forever.
Anastasia Armendariz @anastasiaa2z.bsky.social special collections librarian. seasonal baker. captain of the pismo beach disaster relief. she/her.
Brian Cassidy @briancassidy.bsky.social Rare book & archives dealer. Co-founder Type Punch Matrix. Lapsed poet. Duplication dork. Commodifying print since 2004.
TheAmazingNeena @janineveazue.bsky.social Archivist. Digital Librarian. Introvert w/ extrovert goals. LIS, natural history, zines, kaiju, punk rock, Kdramas, archives, & all things delightfully weird.
KDrama/CDrama blog: somanykdramas.tumblr.com
Zines for sale: https://etsy.me/3Ya6bXa
Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social Historian of academic publishing, science and academia, Uni of St Andrews. Muses on technology, peer review, gender, finances, communities. she/her http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6794…
Emily Higgs Kopin @ehkopin.bsky.social texpat in philly, librarian/archivist working in digital collections and preservation. 20% professional, 80% nonsense. she/her 🐶🐱🎮📖🧶💾 emilyhiggs.github.io
Laura Heffernan @laheffernan.bsky.social English Prof at UNF (Jacksonville, FL). Co-author, The Teaching Archive (U Chicago Press, 2021). Working lately w Jax archivists, historians, writers, and students.
Dr. Jill E Gage @jillegage.bsky.social Wing Curator, History of Printing @NewberryLibrary. Dix-huitièmiste. Love Madeira, hot air balloons, civilité type & maîtres écrivains. 
Agnes Gehbald @agnesgehbald.bsky.social postdoc @uniBern
#bookhistory author of A Colonial Book Market (CUP 2024) bit.ly/3NEXFbA
#migrationhistory: return migration from the Americas
Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social Associate Prof of English at Duke. My new book We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First Century Literature (Columbia UP) comes out Summer 2026! More about me here: https://aarthivadde.com
Roland Allen has a protagonist for Chapter XVII @zibaldoni.bsky.social 山人. Publisher by day, author by night. The Notebook: a History of Thinking on Paper is out there, and I'm currently writing a book about books. Here for: writers, books, historians, bicycles, notebooks, human intelligence.
Yunning Zhang @yunningzhang.bsky.social mystics, race, labor, ornaments, and queerness in the vast early modern transpacific. ABD @UChicago Complit
Sam Regal @regalweb.bsky.social special collections librarian @ ucsc, book person, editor of printing history, semiretired rocker
Valerie Wayne @valeriewayne.bsky.social Professor Emerita, U of Hawaii. Early modern literature and book history. Editor, Cymbeline for Arden and Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England. Also a grandma who sings.
Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social UVA's Library research center+community lab for practicing interdisciplinary+experimental scholarship around creative+critical tech—informed by digital humanities, spatial tech, SJ, & more
💜🏳️🌈 People > projects.
📚💻 Research blog & more at ScholarsLab.org!
Emi Hastings @unseenlibrary.bsky.social Curator of Books and Digital Projects Librarian at U-M Clements Library. Collects books about women bibliophiles.
Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social Workshop in the History of Material Texts @upenn.edu / founded by Peter Stallybrass in 1993, now directed by @zacharylesser.bsky.social, John Pollack, and Jerry Singerman / Mondays, 5:15pm / in person in the Kislak Center, and on Zoom / All welcome
Alice de Galzain @alicedegalzain.bsky.social C19 American lit | Postdoctoral Fellow @SorbonneUniversité working on Transcendentalist utopias 🌿 | Associate Editor Concord Saunterer | Associate Editor The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Writings of Margaret Fuller
Terri Halperin @terridhalperin.bsky.social Historian of the Early American Republic; author of The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Testing the Constitution
Adam Thomas @adamthomas.bsky.social Historian of slavery and emancipation in the Caribbean and US. Community College Lecturer
Mark B. Kelley @markbkelley.bsky.social 
Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com ♑️🌕 Associate Professor, Classics at UCLA. Cicero and the Rhetorics of Race, co-authored with Mathias Hanses, under contract with Yale University Press. Co-founder and editor, Res Difficiles, The Journal. She/her.
resdifficiles.com
opietasanimi.com
Tamara J. Walker @tamaraw.bsky.social Historian * Author of BEYOND THE SHORES: A HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS ABROAD (Crown, out now in paperback) and EXQUISITE SLAVES (Cambridge, 2017) * Co-founder of The Wandering Scholar (@wearetws.bsky.social).
Kendra A. Kennedy @kendraakennedy.bsky.social Studies history of gender and slavery in British North America and early U.S.
Freedom Seekers: Stories of Black Liberation in the Am. Rev. @freedomseekers.bsky.social A growing resource of short stories of enslaved people who attempted to seize their freedom by escaping.
Based at UW-Madison, partnered with scholars and institutions all over.
Discover more at www.freedom-seekers.org
Daniel Stein @danstein2025.bsky.social Prof. North American Lit & Cult Studies, Uni Siegen, Authorizing Superhero Comics (Ohio State UP); Strange Fruit and Bitter Roots: Black History in Contemporary Graphic Narrative (UP Miss), editor Anglia: Journal of English Philology. Opinions my own.
Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social Professor of History at Columbia University; author of CRIMES AGAINST NATURE, SHADOWS AT DAWN: A BORDERLANDS MASSACRE AND THE VIOLENCE OF HISTORY; and THE STRANGE CAREER OF WILLIAM ELLIS. Working on a new project on the US-Mexico War (1846-1848).
Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social Reader, writer, teacher, gardener, seamstress, contrarian. Alice Griffin Professor Emerita of English, Former Director-Carter G. Woodson Institute, U of Virginia. Please, no DMs unless I know you. For professional matters, please contact me via UVA.
Tim Watson @timwatson.bsky.social English professor in Miami. British-American. London > Bishop's Stortford > Brighton > Brooklyn > Miami. Subtropical gardener. Florida Mangos: A Cultural History, forthcoming from U of Florida Press. Posts are my own and do not represent my employer.
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
Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social Science writer/editor, bylines at CNN, Live Science, SciAm. Previously at Scholastic and the American Museum of Natural History. WGAE member. She/her.
Author of Rise of the Zombie Bugs https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/53677/rise-zombie-bugs
librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social A leftist library worker podcast.
https://www.librarypunk.gay
@sadiegeez.bsky.social @wildeatheart.bsky.social @smazzie.bsky.social
Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social 
Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social Professor of English and Director of Texts & Technology at UCF. Author most recently of Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic & Twining. More at: https://anastasiasalter.net/
Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Spanish
Book: Binding Media. Hybrid, Print-Digital Lit from across the Americas (SUP 2025)
Mexican in the US.
Posts in Spanglish.
https://elikaortega.net
Meghan Constantinou @mrconstan.bsky.social Rare book & special collections librarian & curator, Simmons PhD student, BSA Executive Committee, private collecting and book arts, graphic arts, collector of women's bookplates, proud mom of a cool kid. 
Julia Boechat @juliaboechat.bsky.social PhD Candidate @historicalstudies.bsky.social researching Soviet #BookHistory | Bibliography Editor @sharpnews.bsky.social | from 🇧🇷 lived in 🇮🇹🇧🇾🇦🇹🇸🇪🇩🇪| Passionate about books, traveling and swing dancing
(she / her)
Bonnie O'Neill @bonnon01.bsky.social New Englander in the Deep South. C19 US literature - celebrity / publicity / public life - Transcendentalism
American Nineteenth Century History Journal @anchistjournal.bsky.social Social media profile for the journal American Nineteenth Century History: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fanc20
Annie Persons @anypersons.bsky.social Advising Fellow at UVA | not chill
Bert Emerson @bertemerson.bsky.social Lit prof and part-time admin at Whitworth U in Spokane, WA | ever hopeful for democracy | author of American Literary Misfits (UNC Press) | co-editor of Democracies in America (Oxford UP)
Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social Professor, Scholar, Journalist * Culture and US civic life—past and present * English PhD * Books: "Untimely Democracy" & "Democracies in America" * Bylines: LARB, Public Source, Colorado Sun, Chronicle of Higher Education, &c. * www.gregorylaski.com
Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social SSHRC Post-Doctoral Research & Teaching Fellow @ UBC History
Historian of trans womanhood before the 20th C | Indigenous & colonial Western North America | 🏳️⚧️
https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/history/people/graduate-students/profiles/jesperson-jamey.php
Leslie Eckel @leslie-eckel.bsky.social Bostonian / Professor of English / C19 Americanist / Author of Atlantic Citizens / Co-Editor of Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies
The Wolf Law Library @wolflawlibrary.bsky.social The Wolf Law Library 🐺⚖️📚 at the William & Mary Law School, in Williamsburg, Virginia. Serving our students, faculty, and community with access to the law and law-related resources in print, and online: https://law.wm.edu/library/
Benjamin Albritton @blalbritton.bsky.social Rare books and manuscripts. Measurer of shelves.
Paige Roberts @paige-roberts.bsky.social Public historian:
Archives & Special Collections at Phillips Academy (Andover, Mass., USA) https://phillipsacademyarchives.net/
Swimming, hiking | Seacoast NH (she/Dr.)
Interested in #EnvHist
Susana S-G @thetl2.bsky.social Interested in the history of children's books illustration but you can talk to me about books and libraries in general too!
Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social art nuisance, mean little dyke, phd student. I do stuff on memory, haunting, colonialism, whiteness, horror and visual culture. Uncomfortable Art Tours (2017-20), The Whole Picture (2020), Historical Friction (2020-)
Justin Tackett @justin-tackett.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at North Carolina State University
justintackett.org
Ningxin Gao @ningxingao.bsky.social Ph.D. candidate at Wuhan University, studying 19th-century US history,slavery, and Civil War history；2025 Visiting Research Fellow in the Histoiry Department at Brown University.
Lydia Sigismondi, Ph.D. @sigismonday.bsky.social Historian of the 18th Century Atlantic World. PhD from USC. Angelino by way of Baltimore. TCM nerd. Mother of cats. C-PTSD. Eternal Orioles optimist & pragmatic progressive.
Tim Cassedy @vicesimusknox.bsky.social Associate Professor of American Literature, Southern Methodist University
Sharon Ann Murphy @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social Financial historian. Mom. Soccer player. Spouse. Wahoo. Mets fan. Archive rat. Avid reader. Wino. Jersey girl. Runner. World traveler. A wee bit batty.
Rachel C. Kirby @kirbyrachel.bsky.social Public historian and folklorist in North Carolina. I like people, places, and things. And cheese. Probably thinking about Mr. Peanut. They/them
www.rachelckirby.com
@patrickerben.bsky.social @patrickerben.bsky.social Excited about all things early American and their significance for the present.
Elliott Visconsi @visconsi.bsky.social Provost @ Coll of the Holy Cross ; early modernist ; working on free speech in the digital age. #avfc
Brandon Moblo @brandonmoblo.bsky.social Archivist and Special Collections Librarian
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Dr. Joanne Collins-Gonsalves PhD (History), FRHistS (UK) @jcollinsgonsalves.bsky.social Managing Director, Historical Research International | Canada’s Top 100 Black Women to Watch for 2025 | Fellow, Royal Historical Society-UK | Rotarian | https://www.historicalresearchint.com/
Robb Haberman @robbkh.bsky.social 
Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social Professor @ USC. I write about African American life in early national and antebellum Boston.
My posts are my own opinions and do not reflect those of my employer.
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
Monica Keane @monicakeane.bsky.social Special collections librarian. I'm interested in literary history, gardening and baking cakes. Personal account.
J.P. Ascher @jpsa.bsky.social The massage is the message
Hannah Goeselt @hgoeselt.bsky.social Boston/Cambridge based. MLIS. Lurking in the depths of the Mass Historical Society. Here to post about manuscripts.