Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of Barack Obama’s summer 2026 reading pick DATA EMPIRE, Chair of Film & Media Studies at Dartmouth 💚, equestrian🐴, https://roopikarisam.com
Gavin Beinart-Smollan @beismo.bsky.social Public and digital historian. PhD candidate at NYU. Writing about Yiddish family letters and the Lithuanian Jewish diaspora. Very amateur genealogist.
Marla At Large @marlaatlarge.bsky.social Historian of women, work, craft & memory & Assoc Dean for Strategic Initiatives, #UMassAmherst College of Humanities & Fine Arts. Mainly thinking these days about #PublicHistory, #HealthHumanities, & #HealthyAging — who’s with me?
@nolapubhistorian.bsky.social @nolapubhistorian.bsky.social 
Brandice Nelson | MA | EMPL @minimuseologist.bsky.social Cultural Heritage | Public History | Nonprofit Leadership | ATX | 💚💛&🧡🤍 | Blantonian | My views only.
Darius @dariusjohnson.bsky.social Public History | Digital Humanities | Cultural Landscapes
Director of Chesapeake Heartland: An African American Humanities Project at Washington College’s Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience
Chesapeake Bay 📍
*Views are my own*
Matthew Thompson @drmatthewthompson.bsky.social Academic. PhD on historical reconstructions of the Whitechapel Murders. Writes about toxic masculinity, Neo-Victorianism and historical reconstruction. Currently researching the vampire in interactive media. He/Him
Andy Lock @bigandylock.bsky.social Great War, History, & Rugby.
PhD @ University of Suffolk, BEF Infantry tactical development 1916-1917.
Guiding battlefields, Germany and London.
@howtodohistory Director.
Karaoke hound.
Jorge N. Leal, Ph.D. @jorgenleal.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History UC Riverside
Mexican American History | Latinx Cultural Expressions | US & SoCal Historian
| LÁ 90s Youth Cultures y lo que salga esta semana...
https://www.jorgenicolasleal.com/
Denise D. Meringolo @ddmeringolo.bsky.social Immediate Past President, NCPH. Public History Professor. Mom. Dog Lover. Anxious Extrovert. DEIA & true empathy are critical ingredients of meaningful community. I am proud of my organization & my employer, but I speak only for myself. She/Her not ma’am.
David Rotenstein, Curator, Shrouded in Secrecy Archives @davidrotenstein.bsky.social Historian. Writer. Folklorist. | History is my hustle. Opinions here are my own.
lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social plays well w/others, but runs w/scissors. feminist AF. race traitor. queer. public historian, scholar of collective memory, US social movements, puerto rico, digital humanities, & academic apologist. long covid survivor. coffee and gf cookies, please.
Brian C. Neumann @briancneumann.bsky.social Managing Director at UVA's Nau Civil War Center
Author of "Bloody Flag of Anarchy" from LSU Press
Runner. Eternal optimist.
"Cultivate a joyous heart." --Geoffrey Chaucer
Nau Civil War Center @naucivilwar.bsky.social The Nau Center promotes scholarship, teaching, and public outreach regarding the United States in the era of the Civil War.
Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social We Are the Richards Civil War Era Center, a scholarly home dedicated to the idea that the Civil War was fundamentally a struggle over the intersections of race, slavery, and democracy.
Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social Historian. Islanders/Yankees fan. Opinions are my own. Has it ever been otherwise?
The Journal of the Civil War Era @jcwe.bsky.social The JCWE—published by @uncpress.bsky.social and @richardscenter.bsky.social —is home to the most creative new work on the many issues raised by slavery, the sectional crisis, war, emancipation, and Reconstruction. https://tinyurl.com/4hnmffeu
Dr. Zac Cowsert @zaccowsert.bsky.social Arkansas teacher | Civil War historian | Centenary College of Louisiana and @westvirginiau.bsky.social grad | 🔵
Caroline Rance @quackdoctor.bsky.social Writer focusing on the history of medicine, especially patent remedies and fraudsters at thequackdoctor.com and thequackdoctor.substack.com
Also co-host of literature podcast @shewrotetoo.bsky.social
Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social Historian of medicine and religion | Health humanities coordinator | Notre Dame PhD | Same handle everywhere
Book mss: The Gospel of Health: How Science, Religion, and Capitalism Shaped Wellness in America 
Kathryn Gin Lum @kginlum.bsky.social Professor of American Religion @Stanford. Author of Damned Nation (2014) and Heathen (2022). Director of @argcstanford.bsky.social. SFGiants fan.
JoJoKC 💙🏳️🌈 | Queertauqua @jpe1974.bsky.social Senior Recruiter @ Tallgrass Freight | Apple geek | LEGO reseller | Politics, history & culture | Proud husband of Queertauqua’s creator—bringing overlooked queer history out of the archives and onto the stage. 🏳️🌈 queertauqua.org
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Jill McCabe Johnson @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social Writing about nature, science, history & sexual violence. Multiple books, multiple mischief.
Latest: TANGLED IN VOW & BESEECH (poems)
Next: LEARNING TO SPAR (memoir)
EiC Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table. Here for lit community & Caturday
She/They/Dr/Bruh
Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social History, Scotland. Probably writing about material culture, costume, household accounts, letters, recipe books, and the fine grain detail of Scottish royal revenue.
Website: https://vanishedcomforts.org/about/
Partnership of Historic Bostons @historicbostons.bsky.social All volunteer nonprofit bringing accessible high quality free and low-cost public history to people in Boston, MA and globally since 1999. Visit our web site to learn more, or to register for our events: https://historicbostons.org/whoweare
Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social Widely somewhat respected. Co-editor, Dissent Magazine. Teach history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. New book coming at end of 2026: Poverty of the Imagination: The Cold War and the Social Science of Development in Latin America.
The News & Observer @newsobserver.com The best news, sports and video for Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary and central and eastern North Carolina.
Rob Parkinson @rparkinson.bsky.social Prof. of History, Binghamton University. Author, Heart of American Darkness, Tyrants & Rogues. Go Vols, Go Steelers.
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social Historian of race and class; Author: The March on Washington & The Tribe of Black Ulysses; Professor, University of Minnesota; President, @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social; Editor, "Up For Debate" @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
ORCHID: 0000-0001-9295-866X
Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social Historian @ Rutgers & Fulbright prof in Ireland writing about the founding of Paterson, NJ. Brennan Center fellow studying state constitutions. Jersey guy. Eagle Scout. Got a scar at Action Park. Bergen Co. NJ-5 LD-39.
StateConstitutionsLab.org
Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social Sr. acquisitions editor at SUNY Press (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
Andrew Muldoon @arjm5184.bsky.social Historian, goalie, not a historian of goalies. Father of goalie. History at MSU Denver. Wartime Calcutta. Usually in the far corner of the rink.
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/
Laura Kitchings @foodandarchives.bsky.social Food scholar and archivist exploring popular culture and experimenting in digital humanities (she/her). Childless cat lady and contributor to @maryelizaproject.bsky.social. laurakitchings.com
Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social writer, historian, feminist scholar | firstgen to PhD | Latina daughter of immigrants | many languages spoken | co-directing the Mary Eliza Project & writing about women's suffrage movements across U.S. empire
Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social she/her | Roman lit, culture, & history (& all things Nero) at Duke | Mellon Leadership Fellow | humanities advocate | catch me on WiredTechSupport: https://tinyurl.com/RomeWired | Read about Myths of Useless Humanists: https://tinyurl.com/HumMyths
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Stuart Marshall @marshall-trilogy.bsky.social Postdoctoral Associate, Virginia Center for Civil War Studies / Virginia Tech.
Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Prof. of Law @nyulaw.bsky.social; Faculty Dir. @bwlcnyu.bsky.social; co-host @strictscrutiny.bsky.social; talking head @ms.now; @NYTimes.com bestselling author. Views mine. RT not endrsmt.
Sara Warf @sarabwarf.bsky.social Clinical professor of law, paint by numbers artiste, haver of Cookie & Biscuit (small dogs). She/her. Used to be big; it was Twitter that got small. 
Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her 
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social Your favorite medievalist's favorite medievalist. Middle English literature and/in early modern books, with a side of textual editing. In progress: Dirtbag Medievalism, Chaucer's Readers: 1400-2000, Lydgate's Shorter Works
UNC-CH AAUP @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
https://unc-ch-aaup.org
Chelsea Stieber @chelseastieber.bsky.social Author, Haiti's Paper War, NYU Press 2020
Co-Editor, Haiti for the Haitians, LUP 2023
NOLA <—> DC
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social Historian at a US university. Posts about history, India, technology, extremism. Do not feel safe, due to past Hindutva harassment, sharing identity publicly.
Mary Draper @marydraper.bsky.social Historian of early America
Writing about the Caribbean environment, including turtles, winds, droughts, & earthquakes
marydraper.net
Dr Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social Writing about books and 19th-20thc women's history in 'Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society' on Substack: https://akennedysmith.substack.com
Essays & reviews also in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB & History Today etc
Janai Nelson @janainelson.bsky.social President & Director-Counsel of LDF (NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.) the nation's premier racial justice & civil rights law organization.
Posts are my own.
Rachel Grace Newman @rachelgracenewman.bsky.social Book out now! Free download
The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-future-in-their-hands/paper
Asst. Prof of History at Colgate
Hosting convos on new books @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social World's first bricks and mortar museum dedicated to vaginas, vulvas and the gynae anatomy.
Website: https://www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/
Other social links: https://beacons.ai/v_museum
Donate: https://www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/donate
North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social We are an association of all AAUP members in North Carolina #highered. Join us as we advocate for all faculty and instructors through the state. Become involved in a local chapter or start one! AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL! https://www.aaupnc.org/
Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social Historian of Art @ Harvard • Kongo • Angola • Brazil • Visual, Material, Spiritual Culture • Vast Early Modern Atlantic • from #Martinique • www.cecilefromont.com
Laurent Dubois @soccerpolitics.bsky.social Historian (Avengers of the New World/ The Banjo/ The Language of the Game/ Freedom Roots) & Musician (Traversées)
Mary Ruffin Hanbury @mrhanbury.bsky.social Wife, mother, preservationist, Virginian, business owner, Aquarius, author, singer, voracious reader, gardener, occasional cook, animal adopter, “tweets” are mine alone
oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social One line a day from @erinbartram.bsky.social's dissertation research. Dissertation here: https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/dissertations/988/ Key to sources and people: https://erinbartram.com/research/janes-world-daily/
Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com The official account for Oxford Academic, featuring Oxford University Press's academic news and insights.
Ann Keisling Smith @pergamon23.bsky.social documentary filmmaker, writer, photographer. Interested in the history of everything.
@gregdowns.bsky.social @gregdowns.bsky.social 
Francesco Buscemi @francescobuscemi.bsky.social Historian at the University of Groningen. Here for all things history and occasionally venting about EU and Italian politics.
The Age of Revolutions and the History of Emotions are a few of my favourite things.
Lilian Calles Barger @liliancbarger.bsky.social Historian of gender, religion, & culture, feral theologian, author of three books, writing "Second Sight: Simone de Beauvoir and The Renewal of American Feminism" art dabbler, hiker, wisdom seeker. New Mexico.
Society of Civil War Historians @scwhistorians.bsky.social Established in 1985, the Society of Civil War Historians seeks to promote the study of the Civil War era by encouraging the integration of social, military, political, and other forms of history. https://scwh.memberclicks.net/
Dr. Gabriel Baker @gabrielbaker.bsky.social Ancient History PhD. Teacher. H-War Network Editor. Author of Spare No One: Mass Violence in Roman Warfare. Chicagoland. Views/opinions are my own.
Ryan Wadle @rdwadle.bsky.social Pronounced wad-lee
US naval history, OEF, and things that amuse me
Author of Selling Sea Power: Public Relations and the U.S. Navy, 1917-1941 from University of Oklahoma Press
Summer Warhammer Chick @celticdragon1.bsky.social Transgender Army Air Cav veteran, parent and spouse. History and geology degrees. Warhammer 40K, Revolutionary War, Celtic harp, medieval weapons. Oh, and ballet.
Jordan S. Sly @jordanssly.bsky.social Historian of Seventeenth Century Europe and the Global Atlantic. My specialisations are the intellectual, religious, and cultural histories of Stuart Britain and the Interregnum with a primary focus on the 1650s.
"Dulce bellum inexpertis" -Erasmus
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.
Graeme Pente @gpente.bsky.social History teacher in the Carolinas and sometime-historian of Fourierism. Intellectual history, labor, radicalism, utopian studies, 19th century.
Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor at Villanova University & Assistant Research Professor at UNC Charlotte’s Violence Prevention Center • Research Fellow @ the Kinsey Institute • Focused on gender, sexuality, and body image
Omari @oaverettephillips.bsky.social PhD Candidate in History & African American Studies at UC Davis (Late 19th Century Labor History in the US South) | Educator | Labor Organizer | Leftist | he, they
Ms Rachel @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social Educator & advocate for little ones!
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos
BUY MY NEW BOOK:
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Blog:
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all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
Posts by/for me🖖🏽
Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social Ecologist & Evolutionary Biologist. previously DPhil @ Oxford: insect social evolution 🐝
@daviddoddington.bsky.social @daviddoddington.bsky.social Historian of slavery, age, and gender in the US. Co-editor of American Nineteenth Century History: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fanc20
Most recent book, Old Age and American Slavery (CUP, 2024).
Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social Author of Democracy of Sound (2013), Brain Magnet (2020), Streaming at the End of the World (2027); co-ed of #EastofEast (2022); editor at Tropics of Meta 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇱🇾🇵🇸 she/her
Melanie Sill @melaniesill.bsky.social Board chair, @NCLocal nonpartisan local news hub. Former top editor News & Observer, SacBee, KPCC/LAist. Posting on journalism's role in democracy and how people can get the information they need
Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social Historian @ruhistorydept.bsky.social
Yesenia Barragan, she/they @yeseniabarragan.bsky.social historian of Latin America & African diaspora @Rutgers. Latinx surrealist & mama. proud poor/working-class first-gen daughter of immigrants.
✍🏽 IN LATIN AMERICA YOU COULD BE FREE: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY (Basic Books, 2026); FREEDOM’S CAPTIVES (2021)
Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social early modernist | 16th and 17thC Italy | HGIS | history of violence and justice | assoc prof @ BrockU | will do peer review | loud Canadian
magnus h @flushedawayfan1.bsky.social 
David Wight, World of Histories @davidmwight.bsky.social The place for all things history across the world, with a focus on global exchanges and international relations.
Chris Slaby @cjslaby.bsky.social Scholar, teacher, writer, earth human person (he/him/his). Art + history: Native American and Indigenous Studies; the environmental humanities; media, culture, and representation. Food and music, too, though those are more passions than subjects of study.
Janet Watson @janetskwatson.bsky.social History professor at UConn, mother, knitter, long COVID and cardiac arrest survivor. Author, Fighting Different Wars. Be kind, stand strong, and aim for democracy. Cats. Personal account.
Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social US History college professor (VAP). Historian of Early America & the Atlantic. Food historian & writer. Cookbook lover. Baker. Travel addict. Always hungry.
📍NYC
All opinions are my own.
Historical Foodways newsletter: tinyurl.com/4tpxyvn4
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
Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social #Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
www.linktr.ee/drmirandakaufmann
Institute for Southern Studies @southernstudies.bsky.social Exposing injustice, strengthening democracy, and building community for change in the South. Publisher of Facing South: https://www.facingsouth.org/
Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital History @ Cardiff University. Historical video game marketing & Rockstar Games researcher. Co-convenor: @historygamesnet [She/her]. 🏴
Bob Whitaker @whitakeralmanac.bsky.social Professor of History. Empire, Crime, Policing, and Video Games. Creator and host of historyrespawned.com (history in video games). Not communicating on behalf of my employer.
https://linktr.ee/bobwhitaker
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)
Jim Saranteas @jimsaranteas.bsky.social Of the Law / Activist / Raleigh, NC / From Chicago / Chair Wake County Democratic Party Impact Circle wakedems.org/impact-circle / Contributor ACS Law https://www.acslaw.org/person/james-jim-saranteas-esq / Carolinas state lead @ldadorg.bsky.social / #Cubs
Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026). https://geni.us/TMtMT | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
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
Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social
Performance historian, disability historian.
Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation (NYU, 2024)
30% off with code NYUP30
https://nyupress.org/9781479824878/disability-works/
https://linktr.ee/patricktmckelvey
Christian Casas García @christiangrciia.bsky.social Docteur en Histoire @EHESS_fr/@MondAmericains | l’Amérique latine dans les relations internationales au XXe siècle / la Colombie dans la Société des Nations. Histoire connectée des relations internationales 1919-1939