Women in the History of Political Thought @whpt.bsky.social A project dedicated to promoting the study of women writers in the history of political thought. Co-Organizers: Torrey Shanks, Mary Jo MacDonald, and Geertje Bol.
https://womeninhpt.com
John Fea @johnfea1.bsky.social Historian at Lumen Center (Madison, WI) and Messiah University. Author of 6 books. Blogger and podcaster at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. #LGM #Bruuuuuce!
The Organization of American Historians @oah.org Advocating for history. Advancing scholarship. Connecting the past to the present.
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Chris H-B@chrish-b.bsky.social @chrish-b.bsky.social Retired USAF & Mil Intel; IATSE Photographer 300+ Film & TV credits; Bon Vivant, Lover of fine wines, Avid Reader, Sailor, Kayaker & World Traveller. Eagle Scout; Ex-Pat American residing in Canada & US.
Virginia L. Summey @summeyhistory.bsky.social Historian, Co-Founder & Principal Consultant at The Source Historical Consulting. Author of Elreta Melton Alexander biography (UGA Press). Teaches at Salem College. #WSNC
#WNC born and raised.
www.virginialsummey.com
www.thesourcehistory.com
Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social Historian at UNH. Teaches early America, capitalism, & animals. 1st Book (2013): "The Many Panics of 1837." 2nd Book (2025): "Canal Dreamers" https://uncpress.org/book/9781469690551/canal-dreamers/
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
SB @sbridger.bsky.social Tired history prof, #histsci writer of sorts, font of regrets. Author of Scientists at War: The Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research (https://www.amazon.com/Scientists-War-Ethics-Weapons-Research/dp/0674736826) Was @bridgebot at the other place.
L.D. Burnett @ldburnett.bsky.social born and raised and flourishing in Californiaβs Great Central Valley
Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social Brown postdoc writing a book on the American Revolution in female millennial pop culture for St. Martinβs www.rebeccabrennergraham.com
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social historian, author, speaker, podcaster
Resistance from the Right (UNC Press, 2023), Degrees of Liberation (SUNY Press), Inventing the Liberal University (UChicago Press)
π§ American Campus Podcast
https://linktr.ee/llassabe
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
Opinions my own
Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social Historian of conservatism, media, and the presidency at Vanderbilt. Author of PARTISANS & MESSENGERS OF THE RIGHT. Cohost of @thisdaypod.com from Radiotopia. Frequently posting on IG stories @pastpundit
Anthony Chaney @anthonychaney.bsky.social Author of Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness. Contributing author to Society for US Intellectual History Blog. Songwriter for the Dallas honky tonk band, Lucky Pierres. https://anthonychaney.com/
Daniel Tourinho Peres @danieltperes.bsky.social Filosofia e PolΓtica. Professor na UFBA.
Curto muito: mΓΊsica, final dos 70, 80 - Punk e PΓ³s-Punk. TambΓ©m um bom samba e bossa-nova e jazz. E Artes PlΓ‘sticas, em especial Pintura. Louco por tΓͺnis.
Alguns textos meus: https://substack.com/@danielperes
Austin J. Clements @clementsaustinj.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow at the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame | PhD β26 Stanford University | American religious and intellectual history | ASU West alum
Logic Matters @logicmatters.bsky.social Recovering philosopher, but still interested in logic and abstract nonsense (and music). Occasionally blogs at logicmatters.net
Emily Mark-FitzGerald @emilymfg.bsky.social Professor of Art History & Cultural Policy at University College Dublin (UCD). Irish studies; art history; museums; photography; cultural omnivore. Angeleno by birth, Dubliner by choice. Mildly interesting at times.
https://people.ucd.ie/emily.mark
The History Files @historyfiles.bsky.social An extensive collection of information covering all historical states, with comprehensive features, detailed maps, and lists of rulers for each state. Contributors welcomed with fevered enthusiasm.
Located in London (UK), Edmonton (AB), & Atlanta (GA).
The H-Net Book Channel @hnetbookchannel.bsky.social Recently published academic titles by field | Original essays on new books | #FeedingTheElephant, a forum for scholarly communications
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk // Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ //
|| enriching the work of History Workshop Journal || https://academic.oup.com/hwj/ ||
\\ continuing the democratising spirit of the History Workshop movement \\
TheSouthernSHA @thesouthernsha.bsky.social The SHA formed in 1934 with a mandate to take an investigative rather than a memorial approach to southern history. We have been investigating ever since.
M Hossain @mohammadhossain.bsky.social PhD candidate at IHU History, Istanbul
Benjamin Beese @bbeese.bsky.social I study Critical Theory, 20th century Cultural and Intellectual History. PhD Student @ Cornell. Volunteer @ World Scouting. He/him.
Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social Archives and dissertations, labor and libraries. Too much service. Shepherding CUNY history at @cdha.bsky.social. AAUP Council. Views my own.
She/her, white/Mexican. Not actually Iranian. Queens is the future π«
https://roxanneshirazi.com/
Giles MacDonogh @gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social British-Austrian Historian, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, author, occasional artist, linguist, food, wine and cooking.
Nadia Hilliard @nadiahilliard.bsky.social Political science/theory, fraternity, wine, piano, cats. Lambing in the spring. Quaker tendencies. AUK.
Roger Kittleson @rogerkittleson.bsky.social Historian of Brazil, race, space, futebol. Cook, cyclist, Arsenal and Brasil fanatic.
@drbucephalus.bsky.social @drbucephalus.bsky.social
Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social "Loquacious history bastard." PhD in military history, adjunct professor of history, librarian, archivist. Focus on atrocities in Vietnam, Cold War culture, & religion.
The opinions expressed here do not reflect the views of my employer.
Hope J. Shannon @historianhope.bsky.social Historian, slow cyclist, lover of maps and cities, outdoorsy | Director of Engagement @historians.org | US history & public history PhD
thepipsqueakery.org/donate
Fernando Ortiz Jr. @remembrance1974.bsky.social Editor, book critic, and U.S. Civil War historian.
Felix Harcourt @felixh.bsky.social Associate Professor of History. English transplant to Texas.
Anna Danziger Halperin @annadanzihalp.bsky.social Director of the Center for Womenβs History @NYHistory. Writing book on child care debates since 60s. she/her.
The ITPS (Institute for Thomas Paine Studies) @theitps.bsky.social At Iona University, the #ITPS studies the worlds of early American and Atlantic history, past and present. Supports #DH #PublicHistory and #archives with programming, publications, digital media, events, fellowships, internships, and more. www.theitps.org
Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung.bsky.social No longer actively using this account. Find me here: https://tinyurl.com/5y7htysf
John Paul Meyers @johnpaulmeyers.bsky.social Ethnomusicologist. Midwesterner. Associate Prof. of Af-Am Studies + Music at UIUC. My book, "Same Old Song: The Enduring Past in Popular Music," is out now! https://www.amazon.com/Same-Old-Song-Enduring-American/dp/1496850874/ref=sr_1_2?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.8
Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social Editorial Director at @uncpress.bsky.social β’ acquiring books in history, Black studies, girlhood studies, carceral studies β’ H-Net's #FeedingTheElephant
Polly SinclairLewis Fry @sinclairlewis.bsky.social Lifelong Minnesotan. The Don of the Minnesota Hot Dish Mafia. PhD AmSt/EnvHist, Former documentary producer for series on MN history. I guess I won an Emmyβ’οΈ. Mid-level Proustienne. Disabled, but still fighting for my neighbors.
Nancy Cooper Frank @ncooperfrank.bsky.social Reader, sometime writer, curious person. Russian literature Ph.D. Interested in Slavic languages, French language & literature, world history, archeology, linguistics, trivia
Also: Abolish ICE.
Living with cancer.
Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social Historian of evolutionary biology and scientific racism who has somehow turned into a historian of the physical sciences. Expect lots of cat pictures and general miscellany. Baltimore.
Marc Reyes @marcus1984.bsky.social Historian of modern India, technology, foreign relations; editor (Contingent Magazine)
Natalie J. Ring @historycounts.bsky.social Historian of many things in the US South. Trying to learn some law to write my next book. Night owl. Feral cat wrangler (TNR). Living in TX. Native of western MA.
π Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. ππ @mandisbarnard.bsky.social Cat Mom, Historian of Modern Britain. Study gender in English state funded primary education, crime, and poverty. Recently worked in US History, recovering the histories of enslaved and freed Black workers on a southern college campus. Views Mine. She/Her
Prof Deirdre Raftery @draftery.bsky.social University College Dublin | Full Prof of the History of Education | FRHistS | Affls.: University of Cambridge & Trinity College Dublin | author | mother | gardener | sailor | book collector. Writes about 19thC schools/childhood/convents/Irish diaspora.
Nathan Alexander @nathgalexander.bsky.social Historian (race, atheism), Univ. of Ottawa π¨π¦
Indie fantasy novel, Ashes of the Revolution, now available (think Game of Thrones meets the French Revolution) π
Co-host, Beyond Atheism Podcast
https://www.nathangalexander.com
Sean Case @seanmcase.bsky.social Historian of modern U.S. history & IR / Book project on limited war as the dark side of nuclear deterrence / Policy as storyworlds, storyworlds as policy πΊοΈ IR or D&D π² βοΈ π
Christopher Hickman @christopherhickman.bsky.social Historian
Susanna Ashton @susannaashton.bsky.social #C19 AmLit. Author: A Plausible Man. the True Story of the Man who Inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin -with The New Press. Exploring fugitivity, life writing, narratives of enslavement and freedom. I speak for myself - not my employer- C Chris Arnold @cjarn.bsky.social historian, SU grad student runner
Elisabeth Leake @emleake.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, Tufts University; chief editor, Journal of Global History; decolonization, borders, South Asian internationalism; www.elisabethmarikoleake.com
Aimee Loiselle @aimloiselle.bsky.social Robbins Chair in US History, WVU
Writer, historian, educator, snacker, gardener
'Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican & Southern White Women Fought for a Place in American Working Class'
US labor, women & global capitalism, pop culture reps of work & wealth
David Mislin @davidmislin.bsky.social Historian of 19th 20th + 21st c. US religion. Temple U. faculty. Wrote about Protestants + pluralism. Now writing on religious liberals in small towns. Once and (hopefully) future marathoner. Tired political junkie. Sheetz/Wawa equal opportunist. He/him.
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.
Lisa Vox @lisavox.bsky.social Historian, adjunct, author of Existential Threats (2017): https://www.pennpress.org/9780812249194/existential-threats/
Tom Fournier @tom4141tom.bsky.social Interested in War of 1812, Napoleonic Wars, red wine and whisky. British War of 1812 reenactor. Co chair https://linktr.ee/historysymposium
King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social Ex-Interim Chair. Free puns. Historian. Books: Slave Country, Beyond Freedom's Reach. More: https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RXHCAA4/adam-rothman
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social Time-lag accumulator. Professor of History at NC State University. I write about church & state in the long eighteenth century Atlantic world.
Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social Disseminating knowledgeβthrough the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic filesβbeyond the confines of the University's campus.
The official account of Duke University is @duke-university.bsky.social.
David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social Historian, CUNY Graduate Center. The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley (Farrar Straus & Giroux/ Picador), Slavery's Constitution, & Runaway America (Hill and Wang). More at www.bostonreview.net/authors/david-waldstreicher
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | π³οΈββ§οΈπ³οΈβπ | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
Study of Religion as an Analytical Discipline Workshop @soraaad.bsky.social SORAAAD.org, allowing people to gather w/o being religious since 2011. Qual Research on Religion, Religion-like stuff, and Religion & stuff best not studied as religious but key to understanding those doing, being, saying & feeling stuff labeled religion
American Historical Association @historians.org The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions.
http://historians.org/join
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
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Thomas HD @degolierthomas.bsky.social PhD Student in History| TΓ΄ doutorando em histΓ³ria| Scholar of the Inter-American Drug Wars in Brasil and the U.S.| Psalm 109/Salmo 109
Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com Personal account, historian of education policy
Dr. Arlene SanchezWalsh @amsw66.bsky.social Prof. Emerita (finally) still a Historian, Lakers fan, Boxing fan, Corgis, working on Latinx religion but first, Dan Berrigan bio. Chicana, ELA por vida
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/
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
Joanna Grisinger @grisinger.bsky.social ABOLISH ICE
βthe people, united, will never be defeatedβ
Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. ποΈ @phdrachel.bsky.social Public Historian/Prof; Voting rights, suffrage, & citizenship; ποΈ
On The Great Courses & Audible
Views=my own. On #TikTok
http://buymeacoffee.com/PhDRachel
Crispycrise @crispycrise.bsky.social It wasnβt god who made honky tonk angels
HistorySmith @historysmith.bsky.social Teaching APAfAm Studies, APUSH, and Philosophy. Taught Gov, Econ, and US History. Believing strongly in the 1st and 14th Amendments; and that the 19th took too damn long. #HATM #WillWork4Democracy #IKnowTheWayToSanJose (he/him)
Sarah J. Purcell @sarahjpurcell.bsky.social (She/her) Historian-Teacher-Sometime Digital Humanist. Latest book: Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era from @UNC_Press
Jay Shaw @nacahistorian.bsky.social PhD Candidate at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Researching how the NACA became NASA. Early space policy/ history of science and technology/Dad. USAF Retired. No DMs.
Mark Simpson-Vos @simpsonvos.bsky.social I care about ideas doing work in the world
Professional humanist and book editing person
Seeking to enter by the narrow gate.
Religion | History | Indigeneity | Music | Sport
MN born NC by choice
Always #GDTBATH | #DurhamNC #BullCity
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 π
Theresa Kaminski @theresakaminski.bsky.social Free-range historian specializing in scrappy women in American history. Book on Jane Grant and The New Yorker in progress. Queen of the West: The Life and Times of Dale Evans out now.
David Weinfeld @davidweinfeld.bsky.social Time traveling detective aka historian, teach Jewish Studies at Rowan U in NJ. Live in Old City in Philly. Husband of MAP, dad of 2 girls. Have celiac. From Montreal. Go Expos! Will not respond to people who donβt go by their real names here.
Denise Lee @dadavies.bsky.social Writer, creative & technical. Lifelong learner, sometime teacher. Passionate about rule of law, democracy, womenβs autonomy. And go Dawgs.
Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social Historian of US women & gender, race & citizenship in the GAPE. Currently working on a graphic history. ποΈIβve lived in all 4 continental time zones, but CA in the redwoods π²is home.
Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org Co-founder LabEight Ventures. Founding Partner @AugustaFund. Hokie. Daje Roma. Guardian of Nala & Moose. Immersed in water. Moving through with @courts112.
(he/him)
Adam "I Was Hoping We Could Keep It" Laats @adamlaats.bsky.social Education historian at Binghamton U (SUNY). Columbo fan. Books about schools, religion, conservatism. Now writing about the roots of US public schools, c. 1790-1860. Check out adamlaats.net
Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social π The University of North Carolina Press
π Est. 1922 | First University Press in the South
π Publishing books & journals for academics, students, and general readers
Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social Historian. Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio (UNC, 2023); Dollars for Dixie (Cambridge, 2017). In progress books: educational radio on the ground and a history of alternative music in 10 bands.
https://linktr.ee/katherinejewell
Benjamin Park @benjaminepark.bsky.social Historian & nerd. Author/editor of 5 books, including AMERICAN ZION: A NEW HISTORY OF MORMONISM. views = my own
https://linktr.ee/benjaminepark
Emily Conroy-Krutz @econroykrutz.bsky.social Historian of 19th century religion and US foreign relations. Author of Christian Imperialism (2015) and Missionary Diplomacy (2024)
Ben Alpers @benalpers.bsky.social Professor of US History. Author of HAPPY DAYS: IMAGES OF THE PRE-SIXTIES PAST IN SEVENTIES AMERICA (Rutgers University Press, 2024). Opinions are entirely my own. He/him.
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social Prof of History at The New School | Author, FIT NATION (2023) + CLASSROOM WARS (2015) | Last Pod: EXTREME for BBC | Words: WSJ, MS NOW, NYT, CHE, etc | Fellow, Carnegie Corp/NEH Public Scholar | Mom | NYC
Andrew Hartman @andrewhartman.bsky.social "Chill Commie." Professor of History at Illinois State University. Intellectual historian. I write books about US history, Karl Marx, culture wars, history of education.
Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social RECKONING with Jason Herbert
A long-form podcast about history, the outdoors, and the stories that shape who we are.
Benevolent dictator of Historians At The Movies #HATM
New episodes available now.
https://linktr.ee/jasonherbert