Grace Mallon @gracemallon.bsky.social British historian of the United States. Clive Holmes Fellow in History at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Obsessed with American federalism.
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
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/
Elizabeth O'Brien @eobrien.bsky.social Associate Professor at UCLA, Department of History
Historian of medicine, gender, race, and Mexico
Book: Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469675879/surgery-and-salvation/
Fresh Air with Terry Gross & Tonya Mosley @nprfreshair.bsky.social Peabody Award-winning interviews with artists, authors, journalists and luminaries. Produced at WHYY in Philadelphia, distributed by NPR.
https://www.youtube.com/@thisisfreshair
Jared Samuelson @jwsc03.bsky.social RT/Like =/= endorsement; ship =/= boat.
MA Naval History student at Uni Portsmouth. He/Him. Formerly CIMSEC Sea Control: https://sea-control.simplecast.com/
Carla D. Martin @carladmartin.bsky.social Harvard Lecturer on African and African American Studies, Institute for Cacao and Chocolate Research Board President, author, researcher, reader, musician, polyglot, partner. Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's. she/her
Keri Leigh Merritt @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social Historian (PhD) & Author: AN INCONVENIENT WOMAN; Masterless Men; After Life; Southern Labor History.
Rocker. Traveler. Questioner. Seeker.
IG @kerileighmerritt
Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social Newfoundland. Great Lakes. Belize. Puerto Rico. Historian of the Caribbean. Books at https://uncpress.com/ and https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/
Tree-planting search engine with non AI option: https://www.ecosia.org/
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
Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social Ancient historian, now a temple attendant for two dainty-pawed gods who sometimes make their epiphanies. Looking for more honesty and less malice in politics, but getting this thing instead.
Polly Lowe @polly-lowe.bsky.social Historian of the social and cultural history of the body, labour, unfreedom, and the market in eighteenth-century Britain.
Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social Historian of capitalism, environment, and technology in the longue durée. Water history a specialty. Asst director of a center for advanced study. Adjunct prof. Dad. PhD. Delawarean. First Gen. Hoopy frood. Born at 344 ppm atmos CO2. No human is illegal
Joey Low @joeylow21.bsky.social History PhD from Brandeis - early modern China, Vietnam, Europe. Social history. On the job market
Laurie Baron @lauriebaron.bsky.social I am a retired professor of history at San Diego State University, the author of Projecting the Holocaust into the Present: The Changing Focus of Contemporary Holocaust Cinema (2005) and the editor of The Modern Jewish Experience in World Cinema (2011).
Mary Draper @marydraper.bsky.social Historian of early America
Writing about the Caribbean environment, including turtles, winds, droughts, & earthquakes
marydraper.net
Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social Professor of History at big public university in Midwest. Writes about money, French Revolution, restaurants. Friend to vert paleo.
ex UCL History; Yale SOM Visiting Fellow; Guggenheim and New America Fellow.
once/future Mainer
Atheist
Weiwei Luo @imweiwei.bsky.social Legal+Economic History. Chinese+Global History. Grinnell College. JD/PhD. Mom. Not really on here much.
James A. Palmer @jamespqr77.bsky.social Historian of medieval Italy; dad; cook; hockey fan, Michigander living in Iowa. Speaking solely for myself.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0656-9110
Elizabeth Borgwardt @elizabethborgwardt.bsky.social Historian. New to Bluesky. THE NUREMBERG IDEA: THINKING HUMANITY IN HISTORY, LAW & POLITICS forthcoming 2027.
Human rights, legal history, U.S. diplomacy; A NEW DEAL FOR THE WORLD (HUP). Contact: borgwardtelizabeth@gmail.com
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 دبس وطحينة.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
Siva @sivav.bsky.social Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Publisher and EIC of @VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.
Kathleen Conti @kathleenconti.bsky.social Public historian, preservationist, professor. Writing on race and representation at US historic sites.
Joseph Mulhern @josephmulhern.bsky.social Historian of the British in Brazil. Hon. Fellow, Durham.
Author of 'British Entanglement with Brazilian Slavery: Commerce, Credit and Complicity in Another Empire, c. 1822-1888' (Feb, 2026)
Dr Catherine Bateson @catbateson.bsky.social American History Lecturer/Ithaca College London/ British Online Archives Academic Liaison Manager/Associate Editor http://irishamericancivilwar.com / FRHistS/“Irish American Civil War Songs” https://lsupress.org/books/detail/irish-american-civil-war-songs/
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.
Florian Wieser @florianwieser95.bsky.social history PhD grad and Honorary Fellow University of Edinburgh, c16&17 colonial, queer, global history - opinionated, gay, and nerdy --- 🇪🇺🏳️🌈📖
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/FlorianWieser
https://empirespastdotblog.wordpress.com/
Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
Luc-André Biarnais @labiarnais.bsky.social #archives #data #Dakar #Guyane #Lorraine #Vendée
Patrick Barker @patombark.bsky.social Historian of the Caribbean and Atlantic World. Working on the histories of slavery, resistance, and internal marketing systems. Postdoctoral Fellow at the Omohundro Institute. Asst. Prof of History at Miami Dade College. Views my own, not my employer's.
Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social Associate Prof. of History @UNM/Author of Black Germany (2023 @ChLinksVerlag)/ traveler/foodie/griever/working on several projects, including a bio of Black German activist and poet May Ayim/
https://www.tiffanynflorvil.com/
Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
the lady in red (Sasha’s version) @sashiee.bsky.social 🇧🇸 | History PhD Candidate | bibliophile
Dylan Kerrigan @rumagin.bsky.social Anthropologist, Caribbeanist, Sociologist. Peacebuilding
www.dylankerrigan.com
(every so often i delete all my replies)
Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social Historian of France and the Early Modern World, Indian Ocean Colonialism, Notaries, and Urban Social History in Texas.
Often professional, sometimes a silly goose ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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
LACS-SHA @lacs-sha.bsky.social Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association. Join at https://tinyurl.com/ywkzx7f2 (Standard)/(Students) https://tinyurl.com/mrxfs23b
Kellie Carter Jackson @kcarterjackson.bsky.social Wife. Mom. Friend. Historian. Award Winning Author. Podcaster. Seeker of Joy.
Refusing Daily.
Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social Historian of the emotions, visual & material culture, (sometimes) gender, lately monuments & memory in the urban landscape
Chelsea Stieber @chelseastieber.bsky.social Author, Haiti's Paper War, NYU Press 2020
Co-Editor, Haiti for the Haitians, LUP 2023
NOLA <—> DC
Gad Heuman @gadheuman.bsky.social Historian of the Caribbean, slavery, emancipation. Professor Emeritus, Warwick Univ. Author: Between Black and White; The Killing Time; The Caribbean. Editor, Slavery & Abolition
@johannaberg.bsky.social @johannaberg.bsky.social Still serendipity driven. Working on cultural heritage, digital & #openGLAM at Swedish National Museums of World Culture. Wrote on afroswedes in history ”Afrosvenskar” (2023) & on showbiz/human zoo shows ”Föreställningar, John Hood & hans värld” (2024)
Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social 🔍 Curious about the past? So are we! 🎧 Join award-winning historian @lizcovart@bsky.social as we time-travel through early America to uncover the people, ideas & stories that shaped our world. New eps every other Tuesday! 🇺🇸 #HistoryMatters
@professorvbrown.bsky.social @professorvbrown.bsky.social
Association of Caribbean Historians @achconference.bsky.social https://associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
Renaud Morieux @renaudmorieux.bsky.social Historian at University of Cambridge.
Oceanic history, migrations, social history of war, history of international law, incarceration, history of the family, statelessness.
Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social Historian of Caribbean slavery in the 17th & 18th centuries | Aspiring Presenter ⭐️
📸 Instagram: @historian_noor
#SkyStorian #SkyStorians #AcademicSky
Dave Thomson @davidthomson.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at Sacred Heart University. Author of “Bonds of War” with UNC Press. Red Sox and Arsenal.
Journal of Southern History @joursouhist.bsky.social The Journal of Southern History—published by the Southern Historical Association and edited at and supported by Rice University—is a quarterly devoted to the history of the American South broadly conceived. thesha.org/jsh
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
Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social #Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
www.linktr.ee/drmirandakaufmann
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
Lauren Brand @laurenbrand.bsky.social Reviews Editor @ American Historical Review. 📚 Coffee-drinker. Cross-stitch enthusiast.
https://www.historians.org/news-publications/american-historical-review/
Jesse Cromwell @drjessecromwell.bsky.social Historian of early modern Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Spanish Empire. University of Mississippi Prof. Girl Dad. Tennis Player. Gardener. "The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places" - EH
Dr Laura Fernández-González @laurafg.bsky.social Associate Professor in the History of Art and Architecture, University of Lincoln,UK. Author: Philip II of Spain & the Architecture of Empire @PSUPress
#architecture #art #materialculture #iberianworld #globalhistory #latinamerica #Goa
Own views 🌈 she/her
Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social X: @jrhentschke. Chair of Latin American History and Politics, Newcastle Univ. UK; Specialisms: History of Brazil, Southern Cone and Colombia, late 18th-mid 20th cc.; SLAS President 2015-17; Chair of UK Standing Conference of LA Centres 2017-19. Own views.
Alexa Rodríguez @alexarodriguezphd.bsky.social Assist Professor @UVA ✍🏽 Crafting Dominicanidad (forth. UNC Press) about education and citizenship during the 1916 US occupation of the Dominican Republic & director @dominicanvoices.bsky.social bilingual digital archive documenting education and childhood
Deanna Lyncook @deannalyncook.bsky.social PhD: Caribbean children in the British colonial education system, 1940-1985. @QMUL History. Podcaster: The History Hotline. Isaiah 54:17 🇯🇲
José Juan Pérez Meléndez @jjperdez.bsky.social Historian | Mobility Infrastructures | 19th-Century Worlds | Revolutions and Post-independences | Brazil
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.
Yesenia Barragan, she/they @yeseniabarragan.bsky.social historian of Latin America & African diaspora @Rutgers. Latinx surrealist. 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)
Warren Milteer @wemilteer.bsky.social Historian; Author of Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom (2026); Freedom in the Age of Slavery (2026); Beyond Slavery's Shadow (2021); and more at warrenmilteer.com
Zaakir Tameez @ztameez.bsky.social Legal Scholar of the Reconstruction Era
My favorite quote? “There are but few who stand rooted, like the oak, against the storm.” — Charles Sumner
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/
Timothy J. White @whitetimothyj.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Xavier University
Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace
Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
Lisa Materson @lmaterson.bsky.social Historian of US women's & gender history 🎉RADICAL SOLIDARITY🎉 Newly published @uncpress.bsky.social | https://uncpress.org/book/9781469679921/radical-solidarity/
Author website: https://www.lisamaterson.com
The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods.
Find our content here:
https://academic.oup.com/ehr
Edmond Smith @edmond-smith.bsky.social Historian of globalisation, capitalism and economic cultures | Professor at The University of Manchester | Director of the Centre for Economic Cultures
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Marty Olliff @martyolliff.bsky.social Retired Prof of History at Troy Univ. Dothan Campus, Director of the Wiregrass Archives. My opinions are absolutely my own. #NOKINGS #NOWAR
Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com Senior Research Director at School Perceptions
Author of "A Democratic Theory of Educational Accountability,” “Education Reform and the Concept of Good Teaching,” and “Community and Skepticism in Shakespeare’s Comedy”
Ever a book indexer, too
KEW @kidadaewilliams.com I read, tell stories, mind my business, and write--I SAW DEATH COMING is now in paperback. Talk to me nicely because I run a strict program; I block early and often.
Evan Turiano @eturiano.bsky.social Historian of Slavery, Rights, Law, Politics • Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for the Study of Guns and Society, Wesleyan University
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF, Library of Congress NRPB; National Research Director, PMRC; Associate Professor, University of Colorado
Ashley D. Farmer @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social Historian, Professor, Writer, Author. 👑📚: Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore (Pantheon, 25)
ashleydfarmer.com
Journal of Global Slavery @journalslavery.bsky.social Promotes the understanding of slavery and post-slavery from comparative, transregional, and/or global perspectives
https://brill.com/view/journals/jgs/jgs-overview.xml
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social 7th/Newest book: Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings (June 24). Substack: honoreejeffers
José O Solá @joseosola.bsky.social Professor of History, Caribbean history, agricultural and rural studies. Ohio State alumni.
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.
Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College. Political scientist. Constitutional law & development, US migration(s) & citizenship law, legal history. ORDER my book: https://tinyurl.com/2sjcsupd Home cook, foodie.
Emerson W. Baker @emersonwbaker.bsky.social History prof @Salem State, author of A Storm of Witchcraft & The Devil of Great Island, early American public history, 17th C. archaeology and material culture.
Brittany Merritt @msbrittanyjoy.bsky.social Historian of the Caribbean. Aspiring Northerner.
Rosa de Jong @rosadejong.bsky.social Historian | Refuge to the Caribbean | Second World War | Jewish Caribbean | Archives and Power
University of Amsterdam | KITLV (Leiden) | NIOD (Amsterdam)
Latest: https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2023.2304522
Dr. Zara Anishanslin @drzara.bsky.social Historian with a Thing for Things
Creator/Co-host Thing4Things Podcast
Author THE PAINTER’S FIRE (July 1, 2025)
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
M.L. Cherry @historycherry.bsky.social Early American historian; native plant enthusiast and birder; luddite who's still figuring out this platform.
Adom P H @adomph.bsky.social between Bristolian + Caribbean worlds \\ 🇩🇲 // 🇵🇸🕊️💚
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/adom-philogene-heron
@jnblanton.bsky.social @jnblanton.bsky.social Assistant Professor of US History - The City College of New York, CUNY - slavery/antislavery/empire/capitalism - father & musician
Nicolás A. González Quintero @nagonzalezq.bsky.social Historian. Postdoctoral fellow at the History Department and Lab-Mundi of the University of São Paulo. Affiliated scholar of the Atlantic Exiles Project of the University of Tübingen.
https://nicolasgonzalezquintero.weebly.com/
Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres @giovannetti.bsky.social Son, brother, "madrastro", friend. Human of Kizzy, a black lab. University Professor. Author of books, academic articles & opinion columns. Caribbean-based & Caribbean interested. Wannabe mixologist.
@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).
John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social AAS Director: Program in the History of the Book in American Culture/Center for Historic American Visual Culture. studies Early American Book Trade & C19 Asylums. plays Modular Synths. loves Chihuahuas. Providence RI.
Michaël Roy @mroyupc.bsky.social Professor of History @upcite.bsky.social. Author of FUGITIVE TEXTS & YOUNG ABOLITIONISTS. Co-director of @echelles-umr8264.bsky.social.
Rebecca RK @singingandcats.bsky.social She/her. Human rights, social justice, UU, vegan for the animals, news junky, musical theater, deep empath. Mom to 2 cats & 2 humans. Be kind but fierce.
Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social Law, history, politics. Latest book: Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism.
https://makingtheforeverwar.mystrikingly.com/ More books & essays: https://www.marydudziak.com/
#lawsky 🗃
ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social Prof of English*Africana Prof at a college that’s a fascist bellwether.Blk Feminist. Quilter. Uses more tech than is good for her. Views my own.
Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social Scholar of literature, cinema, gastronomy and Mexico. Post about that plus dogs.
Occasional Words: ignaciosanchezprado.substack.com
Akil N Awan @akilnawan.bsky.social Academic at Royal Holloway, University of London. Director of the Conflict, Violence and Terrorism Research Centre (CVTRC) @cvtrc.bsky.social. Words in New Statesman, BBC History, National Interest, History Today, Jacobin, BylineTimes, Independent