Emily Young | History by Hearthlight @hearthlighthistory.bsky.social Historical storyteller of family, faith & household in early modern England. I research & unravel the social & spiritual lives of ordinary people in the 17th & 18th centuries. For readers who love their history authentic, intimate & alive.
Kelsey Hanson Woodruff @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social Researching and writing about American Christianity, gender, media, and politics.
Postdoc at Wesleyan University.
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An Arm and a Leg @armandalegshow.bsky.social A podcast about why health care costs so freaking much, and what we can (maybe) do about it, in partnership with @kffhealthnews.org and @kuow.org
Hosted by @danweissmann.bsky.social
Our newsletter: https://armandalegshow.com/first-aid-kit/
Manuel Merkofer @manuelmerkofer.bsky.social historian trying to grasp how we made sense of our minds and tried to cure them #histmed phd student in history of #neurosurgery @UniversitätZürich
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
Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social author/Ripples of the Universe (Chicago, 2021) and A Perturbed System (Chicago, 2026) | environmental and medical anthropology with a side of religion | university lecturer | curmudgeon | views my own
Alfred Freeborn @alfredfreeborn.bsky.social Historian of Science and Medicine living in Berlin writing on Biomedicine and Psychosis. Lecturer at Bielefeld University, previously MPIWG, Humboldt, Cambridge.
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
Justine S. Murison @jsmurison.bsky.social C19 enthusiast | Professor and Head of English
at UIUC | Out now! Faith in Exposure from
PennPress
Josefrayn Sánchez-Perry @icxicoatl.bsky.social scholar of mesoamerica, religious studies, and medical humanities. assistant professor @ loyola chicago. Incense and Performance (University of Arizona Press 2026).
Lauren Brand @laurenbrand.bsky.social Reviews Editor @ American Historical Review. 📚 Coffee-drinker. Cross-stitch enthusiast.
https://www.historians.org/news-publications/american-historical-review/
Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social Historian, Author of Living in a DAISY Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made. Also writing book on history of the Left in Midwest.
https://austincmccoy.com/
https://austincmccoy.substack.com/
Paul Reeve @wpaulreeve.bsky.social Religion of a Different Color | Let's Talk about Race and Priesthood | This Abominable Slavery | U of U History
Ben Brumfield @benwbrum.bsky.social Open Source #DigitalHumanities software engineer.
Founder of FromThePage.com, a platform for collaborative #manuscript #transcription to engage the public in #archives and create digital scholarly editions.
Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social Prof of Demography & Population Health @oxforddemsci.bsky.social | Mortality, Epidemiology, Infections/Immunity, Biosocial science, COVID-19. | Science Communicator 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧.
Substack: https://jenndowd.substack.com
Dr. Heather Dichter @hdichter.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sport History & Sport Management
📚 Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games; Soccer Diplomacy; Diplomatic Games; Berlin Sports
🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧, or traveling somewhere
www.dmu.ac.uk/heatherdichter
Daniel Buchman @danielbuchman.bsky.social Senior Scientist and Director of the Everyday Ethics Lab at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Associate Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Views are my own. 🕊️ www.everydayethicslab.ca
S. Scott Graham @sscottgraham.bsky.social Rhetorician of science & medicine at UT-Austin. I write about health, ethics, conflicts of interest, AI & the history of anatomy museums (not all at the same time, obvs). Now mapping the world's medical museums → thecollectors.sscottgraham.com
Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer 🏳️⚧️, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
I really dislike unsolicited advice.
Tobias Niedenthal @klostermedizin.de History of Medicine/Pharmacy
● Medicinal plants in Europe
● Herbal anti-infectives
● Coordinating the Forschergruppe Klostermedizin (Research Group Monastic Medicine), Würzburg (Germany)
-> klostermedizin.de
T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social American historian and biographer.
Pulitzer Prize for History for "Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America"
Pulitzer Prize for Biography & National Book Award for Nonfiction for "The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt”
Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social https://www.renata-keller.com/
Assoc Prof of Latin American History, UNR. Author of *The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War* and *Mexico’s Cold War*. Co-editor of InterConnections book series at UNC.
johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social Historian, curator, walker, player of antique French horns. Photography, music, South Africa. UVA Professor Emeritus.
T. Lacy @tnlacy.bsky.social Loves/affinities: History, HigherEd, Writing, Humor, Great Books, Liberal Arts, Books, Bulls, Cubs, LOTR, etc. History PhD & p-t instructor (US, intellectual/cultural/edu). Minimal political discussion here (sorry!). Opinions are mine alone. (he/him)
Cody Musselman @cody-musselman.bsky.social PhD in American Religion. Teaching at Harvard. Writing about religion, fitness, health, and consumer culture.
Johnny Smith @johnnysmith135.bsky.social United States Historian, Professor, Author.
Next book: THE FIGHT OF HIS LIFE: JOE LOUIS’S BATTLE FOR FREEDOM DURING WORLD WAR II (written with Randy Roberts)
Lydia Wytenbroek @lydiawytenbroek.bsky.social President, Canadian Association for the History of Nursing
Co-Lead, Consortium for Nursing History Inquiry
Historian & Assistant Professor, UBC Nursing
Gene Zubovich @genezubovich.bsky.social Historian of the modern United States. Author of BEFORE THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT. Expert on history of human rights, US foreign relations, religion. Associate Prof, University at Buffalo, SUNY. www.genezubovich.com
Catherine McNeur @catherinemcneur.bsky.social Historian. Author of Mischievous Creatures (2023) and Taming Manhattan (2014). Professor at Portland State. Enthusiastic amateur. #envhist #envhum
www.catherinemcneur.com
Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice https://sshm.org/
#histmed
RNS @rns.org Covering the world of religion. https://rns.org
Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social Author of the newly released, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, and previously of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World. See: https://about.me/howardwfrench.com
Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
Tanya Roth @drtanyaroth.bsky.social Author of Her Cold War: Women in the US Military, 1945-1980. Note: I spend very little time here because teaching = busy.
Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social
Historian, Canadian, Philadelphian. Higher ed, urban🚲, books, cats, hockey. At Penn's CETLI; teach South Asia & Hist Sci/Med/Tech.
Disappointing people since 1972.
Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D. @profblmkelley.bsky.social /writer/historian/ph.d./award-winning author of Black Folk/president @natlhumanities /breast cancer survivor/The Oracle
Chelsea D Chamberlain @cdchambs.bsky.social Historian of modern US disability and childhood.
Joan E. Cashin @joanecashin.bsky.social History professor at Ohio State. Author of WAR STUFF and other stuff. Interested in material culture in many contexts. Enjoys hiking, photography, movies, and nineteenth-century novels.
Merle Eisenberg @merleeisenberg.bsky.social Asst. Prof. History, Oklahoma State U.
Vice-Chair, OK State Faculty Council
PhD, Princeton University
Middle Ages & Late Antiquity | Pandemics & Plague | Environmental
Podcast: infectioushistorians.com
Also: Arsenal | UConnWBB | Mets | Vikings
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Arielle Zibrak @zibrak.bsky.social feminisms, projects, pop culture 📚
| 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👐
Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social Historian & Author on #FWW allied relations, historical games studies, & #StarWars. Rep'd Justin Nash of Kate Nash Literary Agency. Consulting partner @historystudiola.bsky.social. He/him
https://linktr.ee/chriskempshall
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social Haligonian, Medievalist, Author, Historian of Medicine, Science, and Religion. Dad to kids and cats. Playing piano, MTG, D&D, BG3
Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social 🗃️ Historian of modern Central Europe, consumer culture, human sciences, migration, and Jews. This is my personal account. Opinions expressed here do not represent the views of my cats.
Kellie Carter Jackson @kcarterjackson.bsky.social Wife. Mom. Friend. Historian. Award Winning Author. Podcaster. Seeker of Joy.
Refusing Daily.
Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social Historian of Science and Medicine. Forthcoming book, Science as White Epistemology. Director "Health is Politics" https://uh.edu/class/history/about/project-on-health-is-politics/
David Blight @dblight.bsky.social Historian, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, which won P-Prize, a teacher and lifer as Tigers, Lions, and MSU fan.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Erin Welsh @erinwelsh.bsky.social Science communicator, scientist, public health enthusiast, book nerd. Host and producer of @tpwky.bsky.social.
Here to share new and ongoing projects, tidbits from the history of medicine, and thoughts on books. Send me your recommendations!
Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social Religious Studies, Indigenous Studies, Queer Studies in Early America. Incoming Postdoc at UPenn's McNeil Center. Archival and Mushroom Nerd. Chronic Former Gifted Kid.
Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social Advisor @ UVA
Working on early Christianity, slavery, & Roman Palestine
Cat dad | Minnesotan | 🏳️🌈 | http://chancebonar.com
Books: bit.ly/3R8LXbo + bit.ly/4iMBSwy + bit.ly/4dBmCSk
Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social Historian of Medicine & Mental Health. Researcher, NTU. PG tutor, Woodbrooke. Honorary, UoB. Policy Officer @sshmedicine.bsky.social. Co-convenor Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network https://mhhrn.bham.ac.uk/ She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ #Skystorian
John Penniman @historiographos.bsky.social Religious Studies Prof | Historian of Christianity in the Ancient Mediterranean World | Project Director of Bucknell's Health Humanities Initiative | editor of Theoria @ Fordham Press
http://johnpenniman.com/
Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social Health humanities and history of mental health, psychology, charity and the NHS. Former policy person. Trying to play squash.
Currently at Leeds, formerly LSHTM and Cambridge. Affiliated at Birkbeck.
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.
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.
Dr Tim Galsworthy 🗃️ @timgalsworthy.bsky.social Lecturer in History & Military History at Lincoln Bishop University. Researches Civil War memory and the Republican Party. Posts about sport and politics. Views my own, sadly 🏉⚽️🌹
Denise Kiernan | Author, etc. @denisekiernan.com OBSTINATE DAUGHTERS now a NATIONAL BESTSELLER!!! 🎉
Author: THE GIRLS OF ATOMIC CITY, THE LAST CASTLE, WE GATHER TOGETHER & other writerly whatnot 📚
BOOKS: denisekiernan.com/buy
newsletter.denisekiernan.com
#photography #history #vegan #ASRoma⚽️
I❤️Dobermans
Alastair Y. Su(苏源豪) @suyh.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA. 19th century US | capitalism | immigration. Author of Flowering Gold: American Capital and the Opium War (forthcoming with Yale University Press). YNWA.
Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
The Organization of American Historians @oah.org Advocating for history. Advancing scholarship. Connecting the past to the present.
Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher: synthetic philosophy, the mind and life sciences, history of medicine, psychiatry
Producer @manymindspod.bsky.social;
Contributing editor @publicdomainrev.bsky.social
https://www.linkedin.com/in/urte-laukaityte
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
@dlondonwortel.bsky.social @dlondonwortel.bsky.social
Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Bard. Under contract with UChicago Press for "The Menace of Prosperity." Economic history. http://Publicspaced.com https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo247855479.html - www.publicspaced.com
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. ⚾️
Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social | Historian | 📖 "Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood" | Heart in New Orleans | Personal account
Congregational Library & Archives @congrelib.bsky.social Founded in 1853. An independent research library and archive preserving and sharing the 400+ year Congregational story.
📖
Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
Economics, history, theory, politi
Pamela Toler (she/her) @pdtoler.bsky.social Writing unexpected history for smart adults and curious kids - and vice-versa. Author of Women Warriors and the forthcoming The Dragon From Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany. Kickass cook. www.pameladtoler.com
Sloane Wesloh @swesloh.bsky.social PhD student @ Pitt HPS. History and philosophy of medicine. I study the history of electronic medical record systems and like thinking about diagnosis, disease, and diabetes.
Fan of birds, bugs, and bogs.
Emily Contois @emilycontois.bsky.social Media studies professor & faculty in residence at UTulsa // Books: Diners, Dudes & Diets (‘20) & Food Instagram (‘22) // emilycontois.com
Einav Rabinovitch-Fox @einavrfox.bsky.social Historian. Editor. Writer. Looking at connections between culture and politics. Especially fashion. Author of Dressed for Freedom. Principal Editor of Dress. www.einavrabinovitchfox.com
Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social Migrant. Historian. Eater. Co-Editor, Global Food History. Author of No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution; Editor of Claiming Land, Claiming Water & To Feast on Us as Their Prey. More: rachelbherrmann.com
Carla Cevasco, PhD @carlacevasco.bsky.social Associate Professor of American Studies @ Rutgers-New Brunswick
historian of food and the body
carlacevasco.com
Debbie Gershenowitz @dgershenowitz.bsky.social Editorial Director at Bloomsbury (Academic) Publishing, NY https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z47q32icdhkbqpi6m6vmiacx
scott b. weingart @scottbot.net past: circus performer; historian of science; librarian; grantmaker; chief data & evaluation officer at NEH.
present: dad; resident scholar at dartmouth; chief technology officer at the library of virginia.
personal account.
https://scottbot.github.io
Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social 🥊 1880s boxing+wrestling historian
📕 THE DEVILS' DANCE FLOOR (Duckworth '27)
✍🏻 Hezekiah Moscow, Alec Munroe, Sugar Goodson, Wannop, Smith, Ball &c.
👊🏻 Write fight books raise dinosaur child
👩🏻💻 Science charity PR boss
🏖️ Clacton 💚
www.grapplingwithhistory.com
Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social Historian of the emotions, visual & material culture, (sometimes) gender, lately monuments & memory in the urban landscape
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
Shae O. @iamshaeo.bsky.social Helping you think critically in the age of AI
✍🏾Writer, Speaker, PhD candidate
👩🏾🎓Harvard x UChicago
📧: pr@iamshaeo.com
https://stan.store/iamshaeo
Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social #Histoire et #Archéologie
#Géographie, #Cartographie et #Urbanisme
#SciencesHumaines #Environnement
#Art, #Patrimoine et #Expositions #SFFF
Compte Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/isabelle.marie.75/
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
Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social andrewjacobs.org | Advising Fellow, virginia.edu | ed., Elements in Religion in Late Antiquity (bit.ly/cup-erla) | 👑🐝 = Queen Bee in NYT Spelling Bee
Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social A collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to present-day political, social, and cultural issues surrounding gender and medicine.
nursingclio.org
American Catholic Historical Association @achahistory.bsky.social The ACHA is a community of scholars, archivists, and teachers of the history of the Catholic Church. Founded in 1919, it is where Catholic studies began.
https://achahistory.org/
Center for the Study of Religion & American Culture @csraac.bsky.social https://raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/
The Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at IUI explores the connection between religion and other aspects of American culture.
Dr Angela Muir @drangelamuir.bsky.social Academic historian, writer, sometimes musician, full time cat lady. Interested in gender and deviance in long 18th century Wales & England. www.angelamuir.co.uk
Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social Historian of 18C Britain | British Academy postdoc 'The Georgian Clergyman' at the John Rylands Research Institute UoM | 'Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England' out now: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180605/
Brianna Nofil @briannanofil.bsky.social history prof @williamandmary; THE MIGRANT'S JAIL: An American History of Mass Incarceration, out now from @PrincetonUPress
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691237015/the-migrants-jail
Samuel J. Redman @samueljredman.bsky.social Historian and author of Bone Rooms (Harvard, 2016), Prophets and Ghosts (Harvard, 2021), The Museum (NYU, 2022), and Tarnished Promises (Colorado, 2026)
Yiftach Fehige @yjhf.bsky.social I am a Canadian-German scholar of science and religion located @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social. Fellow of @victoriacollege.bsky.social. Latest book: Thought Experiments, Science, and Theology. Coming out next: Science & Religion in a Democratic Society.
Jessica Brabble @jmbrabbs.bsky.social W&M History Ph.D. candidate studying eugenics, euthenics, and disability in Southern agricultural spaces | NCWC & VT Alumna
Dr. Cecília Tomori @drtomori.bsky.social 🇭🇺🇺🇸 Anthropologist/Public Health Prof breastfeeding, lactation, MNCH, reproduction, public health, health policy, equity, justice 🤱🏾🤱🏽🤱 posts - my own. https://nursing.jhu.edu/faculty-research/faculty/directory/cecilia-tomori/
Scottie Buehler @midwifehistory.bsky.social Midwife and historian of medicine| reproductive justice| PhD #uclahist | asst prof. opinions my own
Book in-progress: “Reproducing Midwives in France & the Atlantic World”
Cat lover and bibliophile
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
Connor Kenaston @cskenaston.bsky.social Historian of the modern US | Writing a book about religion and radio in the American century | Assistant History Prof at Randolph College | PhD @UVA | BA @Yale | WV roots | he/him/his
Jesse Curtis @jessecurtis.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History, Valparaiso University.
Author of The Myth of Colorblind Christians.
Working on new book on evangelical childhood.
Peter L. Twohig @ptwohig.bsky.social Historian employed by a Canadian university. Focus on working people and health and medicine. Co-editor Acadiensis and UTP series Studies in Atlantic Canada History. Good sideman. ❤️ all things Mongolian. Everyone's favourite backup goalie. Fearless AF.