History
Historians and historical content creators
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.
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"
Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
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
Discontinued Foods!
@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social
Your home for all those culinary delights, anomalies, and misfires that live on only in our memories...Still slowly but surely migrating over the nearly 1,000 foods I covered on Twitter, so if you don't see a favorite here yet, stay tuned!
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.
Alex von Tunzelmann
@alexvont.bsky.social
Historian, screenwriter, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Mike Duncan
@mikeduncan.bsky.social
History podcaster/author. Revolutions + The History of Rome
Richard M. Nixon
@dicknixon.bsky.social
37th President of the United States. Messages from the President unsigned, others from Ronald Ziegler. RN@dicknixon.com
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux
@bretdevereaux.bsky.social
Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring. Blogs at acoup.blog
Reconstructionist
@unavaleable.bsky.social
alt history, legislative politics, american studies, and reconstruction | lots of typos | he/him | views my own, normal disclaimers | Double Victory (DVTL) is my book / worldbuilding project | opinions my own, etc normal disclaimers
Reality Ausetkmt
@ausetkmt.bsky.social
TRUTH MATTERS #BOOKDROP, Digital Journo, Historian,Tumblr, Digital Librarian, BlackLifeMatters, Save The Planet, GreenLife, Grow Food not lawns, Cooking Canning and Crafting. 📚 #Free-Books for Real Readers Daily
Mark Stout
@markstout.bsky.social
Intelligence historian, former intelligence officer. Also live on the borderlands of military history. Former Historian at the International Spy Museum. University educator. I wish I were in Seattle. The cat is Boadicea.
Jan-Werner Mueller
@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social
Political Theory and Intellectual History. Politics of Architecture and Iconography. Some Public Affairs Commentary. Posting in a personal capacity. Texts mostly in LRB, Guardian, Foreign Policy, Architectural Review. Representation: Wylie.
Karin Wulf
@kawulf.bsky.social
Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U #LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
Lindsay M. Chervinsky
@lmchervinsky.bsky.social
Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library @mount_vernon. 🖊️ MAKING THE PRESIDENCY & THE CABINET. 🐶 mom. Views my own.
Mia Brett
@queenmab.bsky.social
Your neighborhood legal historian with a focus on constructions of race & antisemitism in US law. She/her (was @queenmab87 at the other place) https://open.substack.com/pub/miabrett
Joe Bernstein
@bernstein.bsky.social
New York Times reporter. 5’9”
Gillian Brockell
@gbrockell.bsky.social
I track ICE flights, and I write about the history of American slavery. Sounds like two different things, but they're not really. Former WaPo. Signal: gbrockell.44 https://hardghistory.ghost.io/ PFP: Angelina Grimké
the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)
@merovingians.bsky.social
Extremely Online medieval archaeologist. Stubborn electoralist, your fave needs a primary. Gerontocracy hater. 🌹DSA for my sins. ADHD. He/Him. #nomoresenators
Consumer Time Capsule
@consumertc.bsky.social
Vintage McDonald's Super-Collector 80s & 90s Food/Drink Nostalgia ***All images posted are from my own archives***
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
Julia Rose Kraut
@juliarosekraut.bsky.social
JD/PhD | THREAT OF DISSENT: A HISTORY OF IDEOLOGICAL EXCLUSION AND DEPORTATION IN THE UNITED STATES | https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674292352 | Posts are mine, not the views of my employer. ❤️ & Reposts are not endorsements.
Patrick Iber
@patrickiber.bsky.social
Co-editor, Dissent Magazine. I teach history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Write books about Cold War culture and propaganda. Have written for the set of all publications that are not members of themselves
Martha S. Jones
@marthasjones.bsky.social
Historian | Writer | Lapsed Lawyer | Professor JHU | Director Hard Histories | Author The Trouble of Color, Vanguard, Birthright Citizens | msjonz@jhu.edu
Howard French
@hofrench.bsky.social
Author of the newly released, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, and previously of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World. See: https://about.me/howardwfrench.com
Bob Mann
@robertmannbooks.com
Emeritus professor at Louisiana State Univ; political historian; former Russell Long, John Breaux, Kathleen Blanco flunky; RobertMannBooks.com; My new book is: "You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis & the Biography of a Song." https://robertmann.substack.co
Eric Muller
@elmunc.bsky.social
Fading lawprof. Scholar of WWII Japanese American incarceration. Quasi-intermediate bassist. Squeeze, XTC, Fountains of Wayne. Lover of small dogs--yes, all of them.
Jessica Ramey-Gillam
@battleax-70.bsky.social
Daughter of a WWII Veteran who remembers everything her father taught her & flew over from dystopian X. QUESTION AUTHORITY
Christina Proenza-Coles
@proenzacoles.bsky.social
Author of AMERICAN FOUNDERS: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World. I study, research, teach, & post American history.
Shirley Wajda
@stwajda.bsky.social
Historian, curator, knitter of the American experience, daughter & granddaughter of immigrants, waiting for Lefty & CLE World Series win. American material & visual culture, museum studies, craftivism, women's history, everyday life. Too many projects.
Colin Woodard
@colinwoodard.bsky.social
Director, Nationhood Lab, @PellCenter.bsky.social - Salve Regina University. Author, American Nations, American Character, Union, Republic of Pirates, and others. www.colinwoodard.com and www.nationhoodlab.org
Tom Heintjes
@hogansalley.bsky.social
Cartooning fun, facts, and ephemera from Hogan’s Alley, the Eisner Award winner for Best Comics Magazine
Clinton Presidential Center
@clintoncenter.bsky.social
The Clinton Center presents a unique perspective of the work — past, present, and future — of President Bill Clinton.
Titania
@titaniasrealm.bsky.social
Art enthusiast. Passionate about fantasy, fairy tales and folklore. Purveyor of escapism. Location: Norway
Julian Zelizer
@zelizer.bsky.social
Princeton Professor. Also—The Long View, Substack; Foreign Policy; NPR. New York Times Best Selling Author. https://julianzelizer.substack.com/
Dr. Joe Krulder
@joekrulder.bsky.social
Proud dad, lucky husband, an existentialist historian of the 18th-century Atlantic, laughing as I go. Author of “The Execution of Admiral John Byng as a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain” (2021)
Christian McWhirter
@clmcwhirter.bsky.social
Historical Consultant. Public historian and museum veteran. Historian of 19th Century culture and memory. Lincoln guy. Pop culture obsessive.
Kev Beachus
@kevbeachus.bsky.social
Retired Archaeologist and Environmentalist. Please no DM's. I don't buy, I don't want digital currency. Ladies, I'm really too old for you and not really interested! You can take the man out of archaeology but not the archaeologist out of the man..
Joshua Zeitz
@joshuamzeitz.bsky.social
Historian. Politico Magazine contributing writer. NYT best-selling author, including Building the Great Society and Lincoln’s Boys. Twitter refugee. This place is nicer, but I still block antisemites.
The Wisdom Pedlars, Antiquarian Book Auctions
@wisdompedlars.bsky.social
Weekly Rare & Antiquarian Book Auctions Since 2003 BOOK AUCTIONS END EVERY SUNDAY 8pm (UK Time) #rarebooks #books #antiquarian #earlymodern #bibliophile #bookhistory #bookauctions stores.ebay.co.uk/wisdompedlars
Jonathan Gienapp
@jgienapp.bsky.social
Professor of History and Law, Stanford University. Books on early Constitution: http://tinyurl.com/yynk95aa; and originalism and history: http://tinyurl.com/3dd5hnt6 jonathangienapp.com