inflatable aliens @inflatablealiens.bsky.social Just some puppets singing some anti-MAGA songs. Better to laugh than cry. Not for kids.
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
Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social I teach French lit sometimes in English @ Boston U. Also history, visual, popular & material culture, gender & sex at the fin de siècle, photography & mass press. Books: Before Trans; Having it All in the Belle Époque; The Hysteric’s Revenge.
@ietonat.bsky.social @ietonat.bsky.social Former Assistant Editor at the John Dickinson Writings Project and lurker.
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
Sara McDougall @sarannmcd.bsky.social Medieval gender, crime, & history prof. at John Jay College & CUNY Graduate Center, writing about a survivor in c.1470 France for PrincetonUPress, 2023-4 Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library, bylines Slate etc.
Christine Jacobson @cejacobson.bsky.social Associate Curator of Modern Books & Manuscripts @ Houghton Library, Harvard University
newsletter on cultural heritage x fashion: luxelibris.substack.com
writing, projects, frivolity, etc: linktr.ee/cejacobson
Daniel J. Story, PhD 🚴🏻♂️🎙️🗺️ @danieljstory.bsky.social Digital Scholarship Librarian at UC Santa Cruz // Podcast producer at American Historical Review and elsewhere // History PhD // In my spare time I bike and dream about a #solarpunk future 🤙🏻 // He/him
Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social Teaches history at UCI, writes on China for the TLS, LARB, Dissent, WSJ, & other venues, 1st book on East AND Southeast Asia came out in June from Columbia Global Reports https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-milk-tea-alliance
Dr. Hayley R. Bowman @hayleyrbowman.bsky.social Asst Prof of History, Fairmont State | early modern Spanish world, women, religion, place | First Gen | Amateur baker, part-time embroiderer, eternal optimist | she/her ♍️
Dr. Amy Kohout @amykohout.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, Colorado College
TAKING THE FIELD (Nebraska, 2023)
#envhist #USWest
views my own
Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social Senior international correspondent at The Guardian. Author of the Secret Life of War. Orwell Prize winner.
National Council for the Social Studies @socialstudies.org https://www.socialstudies.org/
The mission of National Council for the Social Studies is to advocate and build capacity for high-quality social studies by providing leadership, services, and support to educators.
Craig Bruce Smith @craigbrucesmith.bsky.social Historian
Wrote "American Honor" http://amzn.to/2wComsY Views mine.
www.craigbrucesmith.com
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @keeanga.bsky.social historian, co-founder of Hammer & Hope, @NewYorker, DEI hire
https://www.keeangataylor.com/
Max Perry Mueller @maxperrymueller.bsky.social Widower, father, writer.
Andrew J. Huebner @andrewhuebner.bsky.social History prof at U of Alabama. Working on a history of buffalo soldiers, 1866-1917. Author of Love and Death in the Great War http://tinyurl.com/vvs5msd and other things.
Omar Valerio-Jiménez @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social Professor of History, Latinas/os, borderlands, immigration, U.S. West, history and memory of US-Mexico War.
Remembering Conquest: bit.ly/49iuqFv
David Silkenat @davidsilkenat.bsky.social Milbauer Chair of Southern History, University of Florida
https://history.ufl.edu/directory/david-silkenat/
Caroline Grego @carolineegrego.bsky.social Environmentally minded historian of, from, and back in the South. Assistant professor, author of Hurricane Jim Crow.
Max Felker-Kantor @mfkantor.bsky.social historian of cities, race, policing, and carceral state | prof. @ uw-madison | author of
@UNC_Press
JPP books Policing Los Angeles and DARE to Say No | Arsenal fan | opinions mine | linktr.ee/mfkantor
Cecilia Márquez @profceciliam.bsky.social Historian @DukeU & author of "Making the Latino South" (UNC Press)
Currently writing about the history of Latino conservatives
More on www.ceciliamarquez.org
Glenda Gilmore @glendagilmore.bsky.social Historian who lives in Connecticut and County Kerry. Latest book is Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination.
The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social The world's oldest Holocaust archive and Britain's largest collection on the Nazi era.
Website: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org
Digital Archive: www.whlcollections.org
Donate: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/support-our-work/donate/
LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social Sharing our collections, celebrating our community and letting you know about our free events! Home to @lsepress.bsky.social and proudly #PartOfLSE.
lse.ac.uk/library
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social Historian of slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Africa. Curates #slaveryarchive. Visit my website analuciaaraujo.org
Juan José Ponce Vázquez @jjponcevazquez.bsky.social Historian, sevillano, and USian. Spain, LatAm, Caribe & Atlantic. Opinions are my own. Author of Islanders and Empire. He/Him/Él. Nick Fury of the Spanish Bureaucratic Legal Universe.
Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social Historian 🗃️| Associate Professor.
Books: Harvard UP; 2026 The New Press.
Bylines: Conversation; WaPo; Guardian.
She/her 🌈 | Personal account
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).
Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social Historian of politics, business, media in early America. Author of Revolutionary Networks. He/him. See https://josephadelman.com for more.
Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social Historian at Brown University: https://history.brown.edu/people/seth-e-rockman Author of _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_ Nov. 2024, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo237040605.html
Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social Historian.
Author, Methodist Connections: Early American Religion in the Revolutionary Atlantic World (forthcoming, Cornell UP).
Now researching global history of religion + soccer.
Editor, Journal of Mormon History.
Misha Ewen @drmishaewen.bsky.social Historian of gender & colonisation in the early modern British Atlantic world | Assistant Prof at University of Sussex | in Editor at English Historical Review | IG @mishaewen12
Joshua D. Rothman @jrothman.bsky.social Historian of American slavery, Crimson Tide Intellectual.
Dr Jessica Parr @provatlantic.bsky.social Historian of Early Modern Atlantic. Digital Humanist, and Librarian. #NULab affiliate faculty and Director of #PH at Northeastern. #Memory Studies. #Geospatial humanities Neurospicy. Opinions are my own and not my employers. www.jessicaparr.org
J. L. Bell @boston1775.bsky.social History, analysis & unabashed gossip about Revolutionary New England.
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/
Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social Award-winning Author. Associate Professor, School of History, University of Leeds. Author of The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico. Research: Black people, Women, Slavery, Freedom, Law, Jesuits.
Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social JCB Postdoc 2026 Coordinator || PhD, History. Family + Household Authority + Quakers in the 18th/17th-c. American South. Texan. She/Her. All views my own. 📍 PVD.
Productions Editor: Commonplace Journal
Ronald Angelo Johnson @ronajohnson.bsky.social Ralph and Bessie Mae Lynn Professor of History at Baylor University | Author of *Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy During the American Revolution* (Cornell University Press)
Mikki Brock @mikkibrock.bsky.social historian of religion, the supernatural, & gender in early modern Scotland | professor | views mine | she/her.
Alexandra Finley @alexfinley.bsky.social Historian of the U.S. Dog lady. Appalachian. Union member. Writing a lot of different things.
I can’t complain but I probably will.
Tom Cutterham @tomcutterham.bsky.social Historian of class and capital in the American Revolution. *Empire Ablaze* out in summer 2026 https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3442-empire-ablaze. Previously, *Gentlemen Revolutionaries* (Princeton, 2017).
Dr Meg Kobza @fancyhistorian.bsky.social Historian & Author
📖 ‘Masquerade’ YUPL 2026
🏃🏼♀️ Mother runner, coffee enthusiast
Sari Altschuler @sarialtschuler.bsky.social Associate Prof, Director of Health, Humanities, and Society Program at Northeastern. The Medical Imagination (Penn Press, 2018) + Before Disability: A History of American Citizenship (Penn Press, 2026). Coeditor: Keywords for Health Humanities (NYU, 2023).
The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social The Journal of the Early Republic and its digital platform, the Panorama. In addition to Bluesky, anyone can interact with us on Facebook and Twitter!
www.thepanorama.shear.org
Emily Sneff @emilysneff.bsky.social Historian of the Declaration of Independence
Curator of Digital Content @declarationstories.bsky.social
Lucia McMahon @luciamcmahon.bsky.social Lady historian and author of The Celebrated Elizabeth Smith;
Yoga, coffee, and hiking enthusiast
https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5808/
Kenneth Owen @kennethowen.bsky.social Dad. Teacher. Historian. In that order.
Political historian, studying secession movements. Also studying early America. Probably running or watching sports.
Jessica K. Lowe @jessicaklowe.bsky.social Author, historian, law prof @UVA Law, on leave; OH/KY native, part-owner of a KY holler.
Web: https://www.law.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/jkl4h/1517188
Book: https://a.co/d/fRe9crB
Nora Slonimsky @noraslonimsky.bsky.social History, tea, & Star Wars enthusiast. Aspiring hat aficionado. Writes about copyrights. www.hamiltonsolo.com
Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social Historian. Latest book--The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States--published by @uvapress.bsky.social. Cat gentleman. Occasional blogger: https://sonofsar.blogspot.com
Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social Historian of Atlantic slavery & the British Caribbean | Professor | Author of THE DRIVER'S STORY: LABOR AND POWER IN THE WORLD OF ATLANTIC SLAVERY (2024) and SURVIVING SLAVERY IN THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN (2017) | randymbrowne.com
Dan Mandell @dhistoryman.bsky.social Author of THE LOST TRADITION OF ECONOMIC EQUALITY IN AMERICA, 1600-1870, and many works on Native peoples in New England 1600-1900. Emeritus prof of history, Truman State University, now happy to be in Worcester Mass., aka Nipmuc homelands. He/him/FDJT
Farren Yero @feyero.bsky.social Asst. Prof. Lehigh U. health/disease in Latin America & the Caribbean. writing: ATLANTIC ANTIDOTE: RACE, GENDER, AND THE BIRTH OF THE FIRST VACCINE
Dr. Carrie Glenn @cglenn.bsky.social Historian of the Haitian Revolution, early United States, Atlantic World, & women. Social media editor at Age of Revolutions.
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Jacqueline Beatty, Ph.D. @jmbeatty.bsky.social History prof & author of *In Dependence* (NYU Press). Runner; baker; list maker. Never met a cheese I didn’t like. I should be writing. Views mine.
Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social Historian of colonial Latin America and early modern Iberia. Mostly gender, race, indigeneity, slavery. Guggenheim class of 2025-26
John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com Historian and writer exploring how Americans engage with the past. **Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory** out now. www.johngmarks.com
Shira Lurie @shiralurie.bsky.social Historian. Writer. Righter.
Author of “The American Liberty Pole: Popular Politics and the Struggle for Democracy in the Early Republic” and some other things.
Wear a mask and clean the air.
Emma Hart @emmahart.bsky.social Historian, mum, and trivia aficionado
Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social Digital History | US History
Professor at CU Denver
📖 Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West 📖
cblevins.github.io
Rebecca Brannon @brannon.bsky.social Historian. Writer. American Loyalists. History of Old Age. American Revolution. 🏳️🌈 mommy. Embrace life and live it.
Laura Stevens @lauramstevens.bsky.social I'm a Professor of British, American, and Indigenous lit, pre-1800, & Director of Auburn University's Honors College.
Greg O’Malley @gogogomalley.bsky.social Historian of colonial America, the Caribbean, and slavery. Professor at UCSC. Lover of cooking, sporting, mountains, and indie bands. Mischievous uncle.
Brian Connolly @brianconnolly.bsky.social Fast and Furious expert
Book: Situation Critical (https://www.dukeupress.edu/situation-critical)
Book: Domestic Intimacies (https://www.pennpress.org/9780812209853/domestic-intimacies/)
Journal: History of the Present (https://read.dukeupress.edu/history-o
Chris Parsons @chrisparsons.bsky.social Historian of Science, Medicine, and the Environment in colonial North America at Northeastern. Author of A Not-So-New World: Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America (UPenn, 2019).
Insurrect! Radical Thinking in Early American Studies @insurrecthistory.bsky.social Insurrect! publishes writing related to the historical and cultural legacies of colonialism in the Americas and Atlantic World, broadly defined.
Emily Wells @epwells.bsky.social History Ph.D. candidate at William & Mary. Writing a dissertation on place, identity, and white, Southern girlhood prior to 1865.
Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social Historian & Writer. THE TAME & THE WILD: PEOPLE AND ANIMALS AFTER 1492 (Harvard, 2024).
Adrian Weimer @acweimer.bsky.social Historian of colonial America, early modern religion & politics. New book: A Constitutional Culture http://bit.ly/3hJ1Abc
Sara Damiano @sdamiano.bsky.social Historian of early America. Author of To Her Credit: Women, Finance, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century New England Cities (JHU, 2021).
The Race & Regency Lab @race-regency.bsky.social The Race & Regency Lab
raceandregency.org
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Christian Ayne Crouch @ayne.bsky.social Historian. Habesha Daughter of the American Revolution. Pie-contest winner.
Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social Historian of the 17th C. Americas: environment, plants, failed colonies, maps and more. Lover of travel, languages, stationery, and dresses. Wyoming isn't real unless you want to come visit me.
James L. Hill @jlhill.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Specializing in Early American, Caribbean, Native American, and Atlantic World history. http://pitt.academia.edu/JamesLHill
Revolution 250 @revolution250.bsky.social A non-profit organization created by historians, historical organizations, and others to commemorate the coming of the American Revolution in Boston, in Massachusetts, and in New England. Creating events and resources since 2015.
Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social Annual conference and publication exploring the folklife of New England and the neighboring regions, founded in 1976 and now meeting each summer at Historic Deerfield
Tessa Murphy @murphyte.bsky.social Canadian historian of the colonial Caribbean. Associate Prof. of Early American History, Syracuse U. Author of “The Creole Archipelago.” She/her.
Rob Taber @robtaber.bsky.social Historian of Haiti 🇭🇹 and democracy in the Americas at Fayetteville State.
Working for a welcoming + transformative UNC System & NC. Views my own.
Formerly US ED Partnerships.
Occasional live-poster of obscure panels and events.
Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/
Dr. Jamie LH Goodall @lhistorienne.bsky.social History PhD. Pirate expert. ☠🏴☠️⚓️ Author/Editor. Educator.
As seen on TV (History Channel). 📺
Elder Millennial. Forever emo kid. ♉ Tattoo lover. AuDHD. A makeup obsessed LEGO enthusiast & vinyl hoarder.
📸: L_Historienne
Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social Historian of France/Atlantic World, Assoc. Prof, Book on Huguenot refugees. Working on a book about the Great Pigeon Massacre of 1789. Co-founder www.AgeofRevolutions.com
Terry Bouton @terrybouton.bsky.social Forthcoming Book: American Monarchists: The Founders Who Betrayed the Revolution (Basic Books, 2027).
Historian of the American Revolution and Creation of the US Constitution. Author of Taming Democracy.
Democracy Dies in Doomerism. Don't be a Doomer.
Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social Historian. Author: Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic. Editor: commonplace.online. joshuargreenberg.com
Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social Early modernist at the University of York | A GOLDEN WORLD (Faber, 2026) | TEMPEST for Oxford World's Classics (2024) | BBC Radio 3 New Gen Thinker | Rep'd by Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn.
Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social Historian of Indigenous America, writer of books, and hearer of bands you’ve never heard in dingy clubs you’ve not likely visited. Good at trivia.
MichaelLeroyOberg.com
Frances Bell @franrbell.bsky.social Historian of the Haitian revolutionary diaspora, mobility, and freedom-seeking in the United States. Assist. Prof at App State; W&M and Woodson Institute alum. Handy with a knitting needle, happy on a bicycle. She/her.
Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social Historian. Associate Professor. Community College enthusiast. Researching 17th-c gossip. Weighs more than a duck. Employed by George and Gracie. She/her.
Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org History & political economy of culture; Associate Professor of History, UMass-Amherst. Opinions my own. Prefer email to DMs.
https://asheeshksi.substack.com/
asheeshks.org/
Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social Hungry historian. Novelist. Vancouver Island dweller. I post a lot about old books I'm reading, and sometimes new ones. Also art and nature shots. I avoid posting about politics because what the fuck's the point. You know what I think.
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
Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social Professor, NYU Law; scholar of Congress, the Constitution, and American colonialism; she/her/kwe.
Abigail Swingen @abigailswingen.bsky.social EM British & Atlantic history. Competing Visions of Empire (Yale, 2015). Now: Britain's Financial Revolution & Moral Crisis. She/her. New Englander. Views my own. Latest article: https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.74
Michael Hattem @michaelhattem.bsky.social Historian and Author of "The Memory of '76" (YUP, 2024), “The Declaration of Independence: A Concise History” (OUP, 2026), and “Past & Prologue” (YUP, 2020) | Music: National Steel | @Arsenal
Dr. Mandy Cooper @mlcooper.bsky.social Historian. UNC Professor. Duke PhD. Emotion, gender, families, business, & politics in 19c US. True Maroon. Phil. 4:13. Opinions mine.
http://mandycooperphd.com/