Ryan Holiday @ryan-holiday.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author of The Obstacle Is The Way, The Daily Stoic, Ego Is The Enemy, Stillness Is The Key, and more.
Pre-order my newest book: dailystoic.com/wisdom
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
Third-Country Removal Tracker: https://gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/
Signal: gbrockell.44
Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social Former soldier. Student of leadership & national security; Professor, author (“If I Don’t Return: A Father’s Wartime Journal”), speaker. Always looking for civility & new adventures.
https://www.markhertling.com
Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of The State and the Soldier, contributing writer at The Atlantic. 2025-2026 Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
Steve Stein @stevestein.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Memphis and Strategy and War professor in the Naval War College's Fleet Seminar Program. I write in a number of fields including military and naval history, maritime history, technology, & sexuality. 
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.
War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social Experience. Conflict. Commentary.
Join our community: https://warontherocks.com/membership/
Robert K. Brigham @robertkbrigham.bsky.social Historian of US foreign relations, particularly the Vietnam War. Author most recently of - Reckless: Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of Vietnam- (PublicAffairs, 2018) and -This is a True War Story: My Improbable History with Vietnam- (Chicago, 2026).
Beth Bailey @bethbailey.bsky.social Historian of US military, war, and society / Author of An Army Afire and Sex in the Heartland / KU now; next year @Cambridge / quilt / cook / travel / mow my roof / HSF / somewhat out of date website: https://bethbailey.org/
Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social Asst Prof. of US History at UNC Chapel Hill.
Basketball, running, cats. Go celtics go heels.
Political liberal, hoop reactionary.
Posting goodreads reviews regularly.
JP Clark @jpclark97.bsky.social Historian | Educator of strategists | Editor-in-chief @warroomeds.bsky.social | Author "Preparing for War: Emergence of the Modern US Army, 1815-1917" | Now writing “Acts of Madness: US Military Strategy in the Pacific, 1897-1941” | www.jpclark.works
Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social Sr. Historian, George Washington Leadership Institute, GW Presidential Library | Prof., ret., US Army War College | Military historian | 18c & 19c America | Author | Angeleno in PA | My views mine alone | https://www.amazon.com/author/raherrera
Kara Dixon Vuic @karadixonvuic.bsky.social Historian of war and society @TCU. Author of “The Girls Next Door” and “Officer Nurse Woman”. Working on “Drafting Women”
Brian Drohan @briandrohan.bsky.social US Army officer and historian of war, humanitarianism, human rights, and the United Nations at the US Military Academy - West Point. Author of *Brutality in an Age of Human Rights* (Cornell UP ‘18).
Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social Professor, African Military Historian, Co-Editor of the Journal of African Military History. Opinions expressed are solely mine. My book, Ujamaa’s Army, is available now!! https://www.ohioswallow.com/9780821425596/ujamaas-army
Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com Bluesky’s resident Vietnam War historian. Army University Press historian and documentary maker. Author of _Clear, Hold, and Destroy_—a book about pacification in Phú Yên. All views my own.
Слава Україні!
Web: https://www.drrobthompson.com
Steve Metz @stevemetz.bsky.social Writing on national security policy and strategy. Working on a book about the future of insurgency. An unknown unknown. A plumber's son from Elk Hills WV.
Huw J. Davies @huwjdav.bsky.social Professor of British Military History @kcl.ac.uk | Associate Dean Professional & Online Education SSPP | Award-Winning Book: Wandering Army | Next one: Forging Armageddon @YaleBooks.bsky.social | FRHistS
Jennifer Grand @jennifergrand.bsky.social Screenwriter. WGA member. Concerned citizen. Angeleno. Tell your dog I say hi. 🖤🏳️🌈🎥🍩
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/lvMj
Paula Poundstone @paulapoundstone.bsky.social 
Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: press@understandingwar.org. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar
Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social Not a WH Staffer | Politics, NatSec, and Snark - Your Mileage May Vary | Subscribe to my Patreon newsletter for free: https://www.patreon.com/AWHSBlog |
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
Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard, Author of, among other books, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings:An American Controversy,The Hemingses of Monticello,, Vernon Can Read: A Memoir with Vernon Jordan, On Juneteenth
Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com Holocaust & Genocide Studies/ History prof/ veteran/single dad/ former goalkeeper/ current fiddler/ Grad West Point and UNC/ he/him
Host of The Holocaust History Podcast
TV/Film Rep: Past Preservers
Psalm 109: 7-17
Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Historian; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant
Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social Historian & author of seven books on US history including WHY THE NEW DEAL MATTERS and WINTER WAR: HOOVER, ROOSEVELT, AND THE FIRST CLASH OVER THE NEW DEAL. Florida man. Keep Bluesky weird.
http://ericrauchway.com
pfp by Daniel Mackie
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.
Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press.
Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
hakeemjefferson.com
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/
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
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.
Dr. Jacqueline E. Whitt @notabattlechick.bsky.social Purple-haired civil servant. Public Diplomacy person. Historian. Author. Educator. Leader. Tar Heel. COVID Long-hauler. Doodler. Procedural-drama obsessed smart lady. Cat servant. 2x speed audiobook aficionado. Occasional trouble maker. All views my own.
Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social Puts the 'fun' in 'executive dysfunction' | Educational developer, writer, historian, abolitionist | Higher ed, critical pedagogy, C18/19th, and baseball-esp. minor leagues | Wrote: https://wvupressonline.com/node/823 | Hope, always. | he/him.
American Historical Association @historians.org The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions.
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Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social I am a Colorado-born and raised, Boston-based writer, historian, and Pulitzer Prize Finalist. I am the author of "The Westerners" (2026), “Saving Yellowstone” (2022) and “The Three-Cornered War” (2020). More details at https://megankatenelson.com
Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social Past President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, author most recently of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, Draper Chair at UConn
Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social Historian of Civil War & Reconstruction. Bicyclist, baker, 3d favorite human of Banjo the dog. Views=mine, repost ≠endorsement
Rachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social Historian of U.S. politics, law, & constitutionalism. Director, Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State. Book out fall 2026: The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History. Preorder: https://a.co/d/05KfbAa4
rachelshelden.com
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
Jonathan S. Jones @jonathansjones.bsky.social Historian 🗃️ | US Civil War era, History of Medicine | My book *Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America’s First Opioid Crisis* is now out from UNC Press, tinyurl.com/opiumslavery | proud #firstgen | jonathansjones.net
Anne Sarah Rubin @annesarah.bsky.social Historian of the American Civil War and the South, writing about food and famine.
Maybe a mean girl
Dissent is Patriotic
Trans rights are human rights.
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
John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social Historian, professor, author of The Last Slave Ships (Yale Press).
✍️ new book, Spying on The Slave Trade.
Rep’d by Deirdre Mullane
N. Irish immigrant to U.S.
https://www.johnaeharris.com/
Robert Colby @rkdcolby86.bsky.social Historian at the University of Mississippi. Author of An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South (OUP, 2024).
Niels Eichhorn @nielseichhorn.bsky.social Civil War Historian, Editor H-CivWar, posting about history, my two cute little boys, and my two puppies, living in Germany working as an IB GloPo and History teacher, Website: nielseichhorn.com All views are my own.
David Silkenat @davidsilkenat.bsky.social Milbauer Chair of Southern History, University of Florida
https://history.ufl.edu/directory/david-silkenat/
Brian Luskey @profluskey.bsky.social Historian, 19thcUS. Author/Editor of _On the Make_; _Capitalism by Gaslight_; _Men Is Cheap_. Chasing paper, getting nowhere. #ynwa #lfc
https://history.wvu.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty/brian-luskey
Sarah Kay Bierle @sarahkaybierle.bsky.social Author. Speaker. Historian - mostly Civil War studies. Battlefield preservation. Everyone has a story...I'm listening. (Posts do not represent employer.)
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/
Andrew S. Bledsoe @andrewsbledsoe.bsky.social Professor of Civil War History at Lee University
Books: Citizen-Officers, Upon the Fields of Battle, Decisions at Franklin
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
Kelly D Mezurek @kellydmezurek.bsky.social Historian researching the lives of Black Civil War soldiers, sailors, and veterans https://kellydmezurek.substack and https://www.kellydmezurek.com/
Christian McWhirter @clmcwhirter.bsky.social Historical Consultant. Public historian and museum veteran. Historian of 19th Century culture and memory. Lincoln guy. Pop culture obsessive.
Rich Condon @richcondon.bsky.social | Historian | Researcher | Writer | Yinzer |
*Opinions shared here are my own*
Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social History person, Army officer, transplanted Buckeye, not really that angry anymore. Writes stuff. Some Star Wars. Refugee from Twitter. Views do not reflect or represent the DoD's. He/him/his. angrystaffofficer.com
Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social World military historian at UNC. Veteran. Archaeologist. Blacksmith. Traveler. Archer. I try to limit my posts to military history/security policy. Mostly. Current President of the Soc. for Military History. Officially here: https://waynelee.web.unc.edu/
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.
Dr. John R. Legg @legg.bsky.social Historian and college professor. Really interested in Native American history and Digital Public History. Trying to learn trumpet. Photog.
www.johnlegg.org
Chris Graham, Journeyman Buzzkill @cagraham.bsky.social Historian and author of Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause: Confessions of a Southern Church.
A Clodhopper from North Carolina, forced to live on the mountain of conceit, Richmond, Va.
Museums are not neutral.
Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social Economist by day, historian by night. UPF-BSM and CEP. Author of "Die Schlacht von Gettysburg": amzn.eu/d/epEJdVz
Personal webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/stephanernstmaurer/
Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director @skeuomorphpress.org —also https://theanxiousbench.bandcamp.com
Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social Historian of medicine, gender, & politics. Executive Editor Emerita, @nursingclio.
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-clio-reader/9781978838598/
Forthcoming Book: Doctoring the West: Women Physicians & the Politics & Practice of Medicine
Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracy—a lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird & Rosie the Resistance Bird.
https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755
Lesley J Gordon @ljg106.bsky.social Historian & Author; Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History, University of Alabama; DREAD DANGER is now available from Cambridge University Press.
https://history.ua.edu/people/lesley-gordon/
Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social Historian at the Evergreen State College, occasional/lapsed banjo player, IndyCar fan.
Olympia, WA. 🏳️🌈
Hilary Green, PhD @hngreen.bsky.social Scholar, Educator. Author of Educational Reconstruction (Fordham UP, 2016) and Unforgettable Sacrifice (forthcoming Fordham UP, 2025) and other works. 
Mark R. Cheathem @markcheathem.bsky.social Historian, documentary editor, and writer. Views are my own. https://linktr.ee/markcheathem
Jonathan Earle @jonearle.bsky.social Academic administrator, U.S. Historian. Dogs, New Orleans, politics. Views are my own. Enjoy every sandwich!
Sara Georgini @sarageorgini.bsky.social Historian & Series Editor, The Adams Papers, MHS. PhD.📚Household Gods, Our Library in Paris, Oxford Handbook of Family History & Genealogy, Americans in Revolution. Views mine, history for all.
Viola Müller @vfmueller.bsky.social Historian at Wageningen University @historywur.bsky.social | Book Review Editor at @JournalSlavery.bsky.social | author of ESCAPE TO THE CITY (UNC Press) 👉 https://uncpress.org/book/9781469671062/escape-to-the-city/
Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social Political Science @umich. book: https://bit.ly/3YQWgEi. US Reconstruction & nation building w/ David Waldner; policing w/ @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social + @dziblatt.bsky.social; race & democratic attitudes w/ V. Hutchings & @jardina.bsky.social.
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.
Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social Historian in Roll Tide country. (Almost always) all things early modern Caribbean. Currently foraying into the late eighteenth century while working on THE DUCHESS AND THE DANDY. She/her. Always 🇮🇪🇬🇧 Currently🇺🇸 Views are my own etc.
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present. 
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
Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social Editor, Alabama Reflector. Podcaster, Becoming Lincoln. 2024 Pulitzer finalist. Past: MGM Advertiser; Press-Register; The Anniston Star; Norwich Bulletin; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Politics, history, science, horrific puns.
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
Meredith McGill @mlmcgill.bsky.social C19 American Lit and Culture; poetry & poetics; trying to understand these dark times. Also, idly scrolling, interested in what you are reading….
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
Jen Mills @jenmills2483.bsky.social George Mason PhD Student, 19th Century U.S. Historian of the Civil War and Reconstruction, Labor, military, and religious history.
Scott Sandage @scottsandage.bsky.social History isn’t reality, it’s methodology.
Historian. Husband. Iowan. Pittsburgh 🏳️🌈🐕🪕⚾️ Wrote a book long ago. Writing another on the Métis Rez in Nebraska. Most useful thing I’ve done is probably https://commonplace.online/article/how-to-read-a-book/
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
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
Joshua D. Rothman @jrothman.bsky.social Historian of American slavery, Crimson Tide Intellectual.
Dave Taylor @linconspirators.bsky.social Historian studying Abraham Lincoln's assassination, John Wilkes Booth, and the Booth family.
My website: LincolnConspirators.com
My tour business: LincolnAssassinationTours.com
Husband to @dicejailjen.bsky.social
Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders @ashleighwrites.bsky.social Historian, currently researching Black memory. Assistant Professor at University of Colorado Boulder. Lowcountry SC born and raised. 
Laura Bridgewater @knit1write2.bsky.social Biblioholic, fiber enthusiast, and gardening novice. Hoarder of books, yarns, and (apparently) Bluesky accounts. 🤦🏻♀️ Working on Act III. She/her
Kate Masur @katemasur.bsky.social Historian and whatnot. Recently published FREEDOM WAS IN SIGHT! A GRAPHIC HISTORY OF RECONSTRUCTION IN THE WASHINGTON, D.C. REGION, with illustrations by the remarkable Liz Clarke. See also katemasur.com. 
Jeffrey McClurken @jmcclurken.bsky.social Chief of Staff, VP of Strategy & Prof of History/AMST @UMW. Digital History Reviews Ed for JAH (Former Dept Chair & Spec Asst to the Provost). 
DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social Engagement librarian at Mississippi State. Researching Black legislators in Mississippi during Reconstruction. Opinions represent me alone. Rocking the AuDHD. 40-something fangirl and secular humanist. Aunt to humans, mom to cats. she/her
Dean Grodzins @grodzins.bsky.social Historian of American religion and democracy; husband and dad; believer in the brotherhood of man and the neighborhood of Boston; quondam cartoonist
www.deangrodzins.com
Joshua Butler @jbutlerphd.bsky.social Assistant professor of history. I study Civil War and Reconstruction, Black American history, and Southern history. Currently published in Before Obama and Florida Historical Quarterly. Working on a book about Albany and the Freedom Struggle.
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
David Kendrick @coachdkendrick.bsky.social Gov/US History Teacher, Vice-President of the National Council for the Social Studies, Retro Report Council of Educators, NCC TAC, 2X District TOY, Past President of the Georgia Council for Social Studies (GCSS)
#HistoryEducation
#TeacherEducation
🗺️🍎
Erik B. Alexander @erikalexander.bsky.social Professor of American history at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. UVa PhD. Father of 2 boys, dog person, University of Illinois sports fanatic. Opinions are my own.