Scott Ackerman
Associate Director, Organizational Culture, Learning, and Outreach at UVA Library. PhD in history from CUNY Graduate Center. New York expat, cat enthusiast.
@doctrinatrix.bsky.social
museum work • KU PhD student • WWI history and Interwar diplomacy • mil doctrine advocate • retired pilot • adventuress • rescue dog mom • cocktail drinker
@valeriedeacon.bsky.social
Historian of Modern France, the extreme-right, and the French Resistance. Working in curriculum development (teaching and learning spaces) and student success at TMU. Parent of a very sassy young child.
@jgmaber.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. Researching and teaching on Russian politics and security, and gender and conflict. Expect cat photos.
@dphochfelder.bsky.social
Author of The Telegraph in America (JHUP 2012). Now working on a digital/public history of urban renewal in New York State and beyond. Check out some of our (Ann Pfau, Stacy Sewell, and me) work at https://considerthesourceny.org/access/topic/urban-renewal
@urbanrenewal.bsky.social
Expect maps, renderings, appraisal photos, and stories about people who lost homes and businesses to redevelopment. (Guest appearances by The Monster Cat.) https://urbanrenewal.substack.com https://98acresinalbany.wordpress.com
@lizgreenspan.bsky.social
writer | in process: cultural history of cities & '70s, Denise Scott Brown & Robert Venturi (W.W. Norton; Pushkin Press) | board member @ Blue Stoop | Philadelphia https://elizabethgreenspan.com/
@lwinling.bsky.social
A tall, bold slugger | Author, Building the Ivory Tower (2017), Property Wrongs (coming) | Live in Cville, Teach in Bburg, Heart in Chicago | Sailing and boat building at IG (@ladalewinling)
@toddmichney.bsky.social
U.S. urban historian. Redlining and New Deal housing policy; African Americans and the U.S. construction industry 1865-1965; American homeownership 1880-1950. https://hsoc.gatech.edu/people/person/todd-michney
@brentcebul.bsky.social
I teach history and write about US politics, cities, and inequality, most recently in ILLUSIONS OF PROGRESS: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century (Penn Press, 2023).
@danielkayhertz.bsky.social
Personal account. Housing Director at Impact for Equity, a law and policy center in Chicago. Former policy director, Chicago Department of Housing. Book "The Battle of Lincoln Park" on the origins of gentrification in Chicago. 🍝& 🚌
@langealexandra.bsky.social
Design critic, author, 1970s, malls, kids, Marimekko // more at www.alexandralange.net
@mpeterf.bsky.social
Historian, author of COLORED PROPERTY, and grateful for Richard Scarry books. Money is credit and a creature of law.
@urbanhistorya.bsky.social
If you're into cities and their histories, then you're into the Urban History Association!
@maryrizzo.bsky.social
History prof at Rutgers-Newark. Author of Come and Be Shocked: Baltimore Beyond John Waters and The Wire and Class Acts: Young Men and the Rise of Lifestyle. Anti-ICE activist in NJ. Diehard sewist.
@jorgenleal.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of History UC Riverside Mexican American History | Latinx Cultural Expressions | US & SoCal Historian | LÁ 90s Youth Cultures y lo que salga esta semana... https://www.jorgenicolasleal.com/
@shannanclark.bsky.social
Historian of labor, media, and cities. Teacher and trade unionist. Author of The Making of the American Creative Class: http://tinyurl.com/yc98a2xn. Vote in NY-10, heart in MO-1, paycheck in NJ-11. Also in https://scholarsforanewdealforhighered.org
@melanienewport.bsky.social
US carceral and urban history, jail and policing. AAUP, abolition, working mom in CT, personal account.
@blindeke.bsky.social
Urban Geographer @ UMN. Cityscape columnist @ Minnpost. Skyway Don Quixote. Tread lightly on earth. he/him Author of "St. Paul: Urban Biography”
@sienriquez.bsky.social
Mujer de la Frontera | Mex-Tex in the Midwest | Assoc. Prof. of Chicanx, Urban, & Public History @ UMKC | Angry feminist |
@hangryhistorian.bsky.social
Phd Candidate | Digital Humanities | Public History | Borderlands Save the Adobes
@timothyjlombardo.bsky.social
Historian. Professional and personal interests in cities, politics, labor, punk rock, beer, higher ed, and all things Philadelphia. Author, Blue-Collar Conservatism (https://tinyurl.com/587bfhcy). Other projects in the works, probably
@ansleyerickson.bsky.social
US cities & schools, historically. Russell Sage Visiting Scholar this year. Books: Making the Unequal Metropolis; Educating Harlem. Thoughts here represent me, not my employer. www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/ate11 nyccivilrightshistory.org
@srober30.bsky.social
Professor of History at George Mason University; co-creator of Digital Harlem; author of Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935, https://harlemindisorder.org; https://drstephenrobertson.com
@emlieb.bsky.social
Historian, writer, killjoy. Tried nothing; all out of ideas. Preorder ROAD TO NOWHERE: HOW A HIGHWAY MAP WRECKED BALTIMORE (coming November 2025) https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo255390347.html she/her emilylieb.com
@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
@ldfreedman.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London. Latest Book Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine. Substack Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
@ridt.bsky.social
Author of ACTIVE MEASURES, RISE OF THE MACHINES, CYBER WAR WILL NOT TAKE PLACE, "Attributing Cyber Attacks," more. Johns Hopkins, Alperovitch Institute.
@warontherocks.bsky.social
Experience. Conflict. Commentary. Join our community: https://warontherocks.com/membership/
@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
@kimatiwagner.bsky.social
Historian of empire, violence and atrocity photography - currently writing about the My Lai Massacre, March 16, 1968. Latest book: 'Massacre in the Clouds - An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History' (PublicAffairs, 2024) London - Wylie Agency
@bafriedman.bsky.social
Amphibious Warfare, Strategy, and Clausewitz. CLE expat. Malevelon Creek veteran. Substack: https://bafriedman.substack.com/
@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.
@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.
@stevemetz.bsky.social
Writing on national security policy and strategy. Working on a book about the future of insurgency.
@alexchurchill.bsky.social
FRHistS Royal/Military Historian Director @greatwargroup 🕯️ www.istoriatravel.org ✈️ Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social 📚 #CFC ⚽️ #WW1 #WW2 🏴 But frequently bangs on about the French 🇫🇷 https://achurchill.substack.com
@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
@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
@nathankfinney.com
Servant of the Republic on the Edge of Empires | Fellow, Duke Program on American Grand Strategy & @AtlanticCouncil.bsky.social | Ed., @britjnlmilhist.bsky.social | Pres, @milwritersguild.bsky.social | Historian of WWI (book @cornellupress.bsky.social)
@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
@amyjay401.bsky.social
Historian of War, Gender, and the Modern U.S. Author of Rough Draft: Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance. Working on a book on the effects of peace activism on the US military. Former high school teacher.
@michmo.bsky.social
Historian of Africa, soldiers, war. Mom, spouse, daughter. Author of *Violent Intermediaries*. Vet. Wish I had a dog. Wish I could just write what I want.
@profmurdoch.bsky.social
Professor of History @mhafhs.bsky.social Research: Britain & the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) & The British Civil Wars (1639-1660). Maritime Warfare (1513-1713) Teaching: History of Military Thought, 500BC-2000AD 🗃 #Dyslexic in several languages.
@drjlhazelton.bsky.social
Political scientist. IR. International security. RT=not endorsement. Author of award-winning book "Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare" from Cornell. She/her.
@susancolbourn.net
Historian at Duke. Latest book: EUROMISSILES. Still writing about NATO and European security since 1945.
@roelkonijn.bsky.social
Ancient historian (Greece, Persia, war, history-writing). Darby Fellow in Ancient History at Lincoln College, Oxford. Moderator at r/AskHistorians. Ditch guy on YouTube.
@teaandtactics.bsky.social
@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).