Public American Studiers
AmericanStudying in 2024 ain't for the faint of heart. Here's some lion-hearted folks.
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@americanstudier.bsky.social
@laurafurlan.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English. Author of Indigenous Cities (UNP 2017). President of ASAIL. Adoptee. Native Chicagoan. Queer mommy. She/her.
@civicspod.bsky.social
History, in the time it takes to enjoy a cup of coffee. Join me as I chat about United States history each week. https://linktr.ee/civicsandcoffee?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaaEUTUKw2lMBQukjc3-KCuc-60TeG47Y0pLFilx07cKl3Z5tssRjIxYJUA_aem_AbPmDVZfVfPMLXYLnk
@candacecunningham.bsky.social
Historian, foodie, shoe-aholic. Professor of whom student wrote, “Dr. Cunningham doesn’t really teach us anything. She just makes us think all the time.”
@renfro.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History at Florida State University. Wrote STRANGER DANGER (Oxford University Press, 2020) and THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RYAN WHITE (UNC Press, 2024). Represented by Calligraph Lit. Father of H and G. He/him.
@yaelschacher.bsky.social
Immigration historian and Director for Americas and Europe at Refugees International. Views my own.
@vaughncrossca.bsky.social
Social Historian, Dept Geography & Sociology, SamfordU Core Curriculum: Pre-21c Tech HY, AmRel, SexRaceReligion in US Bible Belt; https://www.samford.edu/arts-and-sciences/directory/Cross-Carol-Ann-Vaughn
@jenansbach.bsky.social
English teacher. NBCT. Rutgers-Newark American Studies PhD; Douglass alum; Scarlet Knights. Author: TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR TEACHING EVALUATION. She/her. I have too many dogs.
@lydiamoland.bsky.social
Biographer & philosopher, not necessarily in that order. ✍️ LYDIA MARIA CHILD: A RADICAL AMERICAN LIFE. Bylines in WaPo, WSJ, BoGlobe. 19C women philosophers 📘 out 2025. Current project: Nietzschean feminist/pacifist Helene Stöcker. What could go wrong?
@elizabethlblock.bsky.social
PhD. Art and cultural historian, speaker. Senior editor, Met Museum. Author, BEYOND VANITY: THE HISTORY AND POWER OF HAIRDRESSING
@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
@lorifreshwater.bsky.social
Writer and journalist who apparently may or may not be notable. Writing on DoD environmental contamination and suing the United States government. I have no hobbies. Signal: LoriLou.33 Loriloufreshwater@protonmail
@hermioneclone.bsky.social
Associate Professor and Co-Chief Diversity Officer at SUNY Canton. YA series books, C19AmLit, WWI, fandom. Queer (pan/demi) Wiccan. 🏳️🌈📚☕ Views my own, not employer's. https://linktr.ee/emilyhamiltonhoney
@bradvivian.bsky.social
Prof/Author/Speaker (academic freedom, free speech, democracy) *Author _Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education_ (Oxford UP) *Op-eds: TIME, Washington Post, The Chronicle, Inside Higher Ed, Philadelphia Inquirer
@drhistorybrad.bsky.social
Historian. Writer. Midwest spokesperson. Classical Millennial. Book lover. Writing a book on Toledo and another one on Millennial life. Star Wars & LOTR fan. He/Him/His. Views are mine alone 🏳️🌈📚
@rkdcolby86.bsky.social
Historian at the University of Mississippi. Author of An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South (OUP, 2024).
@nicoledonawho.bsky.social
Professor. Historian. #trekkie. 🐶❤️ Leroy & Miles. Posts do not represent my employer.
@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.
@taulby.bsky.social
@VT_RLCL. US South & Appalachia. Research: historical & cultural memory; race & white nationalism. Most recently writing on Gone with the Wind, plantation tourism, and campus racism. Horror enthusiast. Sports watcher. Dad.
@sayburgin.bsky.social
20th C US Historian. Author of Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit (NYU Press 2024). Bylines @ The Nation, WaPo, HuffPo.
@robertpjones.bsky.social
President and founder, PRRI. NYT Bestselling author of The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future; White Too Long; The End of White Christian America. Writing at https://www.whitetoolong.net.
@apiper626.bsky.social
Public historian//arts administrator//Chief of Staff in Washington, D.C., currently working in arts & humanities policy ✨ (actual location: in a museum somewhere)
@saragoldrickrab.bsky.social
AUTHOR of Paying the Price 📚 FOUNDER of the #RealCollege movement to support students’ basic needs + Believe in Students (nonprofit) + Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice 💡 TEACHER at Community College of Philadelphia ✏️✏️ MOM of teens 🌱🐶🐈🐈⬛
@adamgolub.bsky.social
American Studies professor at Cal State Fullerton. Pop culture, true crime, monsters, music, creative work. Writing a cultural history of the doppelgänger. Also a runner who blogs about fatherhood. https://www.everydayfictions.com/bio
@nataliapetrzela.bsky.social
Prof of History at The New School | Author, FIT NATION (2023) + CLASSROOM WARS (2015) | Current Pod: EXTREME for BBC | Columnist, MSNBC | Fellow, Carnegie Corp/NEH Public Scholar | Mom | NYC
@lmansley.bsky.social
Editor, historian, feminist, & book-lover | Senior managing editor, @historians.org | Emerita, @nursingclio.bsky.social | she/her
@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
@nschneider03.bsky.social
Disaster and hazard historian, but I like it all. Climate, hazards, society, and infrastructure. Natural & human made. Always up for talking about cats, books, office supplies, reality tv, true crime, and pop culture. New England Girl always! 💕
@kuehlerwalters.bsky.social
aka @KatinSATX. Historian, researcher, editor, educator, & museum & archive worker. Studies race & gender in US South & Texas, structural racism & violence, Black activism, TX 20s Klan, & voting rights. Views expressed here are my own. RT≠endorsement.
@djmalcolm.bsky.social
PhD student at Teesside University, researching Founding Fathers, the American Constitution, and the ideas of Ancient Greece & Rome. Postgraduate Rep for BAAS. He/him.
@drmphillipsut.bsky.social
Historian, author of “White Metropolis” and co-author of the upcoming “The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas.”
@bethlewwilliams.bsky.social
Historian at Princeton University. Preoccupied with immigration, past and present.
@davidsilkenat.bsky.social
Milbauer Chair of Southern History, University of Florida https://history.ufl.edu/directory/david-silkenat/
@nkalamb.bsky.social
🍉; “Happiness Vampire”; Assoc Prof of Soc @ UNB; social theory + sport; words in The Guardian etc; co-host @endofsportpod.bsky.social; he/him; plz order *The End of College Football*: https://t.co/0C19WAmL6y
@profalopez.bsky.social
historian of early black film culture & NYC // assistant prof at Prov. College // associate editor at Gotham // really into cats // tweets my own
@raepitkin.bsky.social
History PhDing @ CUNY GC: State & Local History, Settler Colonialism, Public History & Historical Memory (20th Century U.S.) • Managing Editor: Gotham Center for NYC History • Programs: Humanities NY (State Council, NEH) • Brooklyn ↔️ Buffalo 💨
@dcsackman.bsky.social
Historian, Nature and Culture, author of Orange Empire and Wild Men and editor of A Companion to American Environmental History https://sites.google.com/view/douglassackman/home
@jimambuske.bsky.social
Historian of the American Revolution | Co-Head R2 Studios | Narrator of Worlds Turned Upside Down | Digital Humanist | Scotland Enthusiast www.r2studios.org
@johnwbuaas.bsky.social
Retired Prof. of English, living in Wichita KS. PhD in 20c. Am. Lit. Proud husband, father. Inordinately fond of Mexico City. Surname rhymes w/ Louis. Books read in 2025: https://bsky.app/profile/johnwbuaas.bsky.social/post/3lerufociu22y
@adamlaats.bsky.social
US Historian at Binghamton U. Columbo fan. Books about schools, religion, conservatism. Now writing about the roots of US public schools, c. 1790-1860. adamlaats.net
@melli75.bsky.social
Profesora Boricua. Latina/o Studies, Puerto Rican Studies. I love music. #histed #wmnhist Author of Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977 UI Press
@clmcwhirter.bsky.social
Historical Consultant. Public historian and museum veteran. Historian of 19th Century culture and memory. Lincoln guy. Pop culture obsessive.
@stevecampbell.bsky.social
19th century U.S. historian, author of The Bank War and the Partisan Press (Univ Press of Kansas 2019). tinyurl.com/35v4jnf2 NorCal native. Contingent faculty. Independent thinker. Loves maps. Typically comments on climate change, economics, and politics.
@drsarahmac.bsky.social
Author of Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South (UNC Press) | Historian + Professor at Texas A&M | displaced Floridian + Tampa native | views mine | https://linkin.bio/sarah-mcnamara
@brdemuth.bsky.social
Writer & environmental historian of cold places, now writing about the Yukon River. Author of FLOATING COAST. Prof at Brown University. Post mostly about animals, Arctic things & books. Heart is on a dogsled. #envhist #naturewriting
@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.
@clarecorbould.bsky.social
Historian 🗃️| Associate Professor. Books: Harvard UP; 2025 The New Press. Bylines: Conversation; WaPo; Guardian. She/her 🌈 | Personal account
@karadixonvuic.bsky.social
Historian of war and society @TCU. Author of “The Girls Next Door” and “Officer Nurse Woman”. Working on “Drafting Women”
@susannaashton.bsky.social
#C19 AmLit Prof.@Clemson. Author: A Plausible Man. the True Story of the Man who Inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin -with The New Press. Exploring fugitivity, life writing, slavery studies, freedom
@jessicawranosky.bsky.social
Distinguished Professor of DH & History-Women, gender & sexuality hist &voting rights specialist. Auntie Maime, “Life is a banquet. Most poor suckers are starving to death.Live!Live!Live!” Posts are my own 1st Amendment. www.jessicabrannonwranosky.com
@paulrosenberg.bsky.social
Words. At Salon: https://www.salon.com/writer/paul_rosenberg & Random Lengths News: https://www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/author/paul-rosenberg Election take: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xy5et7tjp2m5vcse6ky23v2x/post/3lajp4jwy2s2n
@briansmueller.bsky.social
"Democracy's Think Tank: The Institute for Policy Studies & Progressive Foreign Policy" (Penn Press, 2021). Next: 1980s Central American Peace Movement. https://brian-mueller.com/
@marthasjones.bsky.social
Historian | Writer | Lapsed Lawyer | Professor JHU | Director Hard Histories | The Trouble of Color (March 2025, Basic Books) | msjonz@jhu.edu
@sarahking.bsky.social
Historian of 20th century US, Vietnam War, popular culture, celebrity activism | Asst Professor at University of South Carolina Aiken | Canadian | Co-editor clioandthecontemporary.com | #skystorians
@dpmckenzie.bsky.social
Public history consultant, sometimes digital & academic historian. GMU PhD in 19c US-LatAm history—US citizens living in Mexico’s interior, 1821-46. Formerly of Folger, Ford’s Theatre, Capital Jewish Museum, Design Minds, Alamo.
@stevesarson.bsky.social
Historian. Currently writing "The Course of Human Events": The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States - @uvapress.bsky.social, 2025. Cat gentleman. Occasional blogger: https://sonofsar.blogspot.com
@samaveryquinn.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at Appalachian State University. American religious history and historical geography.
@rrichard09.bsky.social
I study how people talk about politics and law and participate in governing their communities. Opinions expressed here are mine alone, not those of my employers or institutions. https://rcrjr.wordpress.com
@cmcknichols.bsky.social
Historian, Hayes Chair @OhioState Mershon Ctr Carnegie Fellow 6 Books: Ideology in US Foreign Relations, Rethinking American Grand Strategy, Promise & Peril. Isolationism, Internationalism, Globalization. ⚾️
@tiffanynichols.bsky.social
LSST-DA Catalyst Faculty Fellow History of Astrophysics, Physics, and Science + Environmental History.
@kris-inwood.bsky.social
Economic historian @UoGuelph w broad social science & historical interests: population health, First Nations demography, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🏴 Editing Social Science History & Asia-Pacific Econ History
@bunkhistory.bsky.social
Highlighting connections between American history stories from across the web. Visit us: https://www.bunkhistory.org/ Subscribe: https://www.bunkhistory.org/newsletter Powered by @urichmond.bsky.social Partnered with @myhnn.bsky.social
@rebeccanatow.com
#HigherEd #Policy / Associate Prof of Educational Leadership & Policy / Researcher / Author of "Reexamining the Federal Role in Higher Education" / #Philly Sports / #LongIsland is home / #edusky
@jostler.bsky.social
Semi-retired history professor, University of Oregon. Thinking about genocide.
@kostrofs.bsky.social
Bunk taxonomist, Sesame Street historian, digital humanist, housing & transportation advocate, Boston Rosident.
@suyh.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA. 19th century US | capitalism | immigration. Author of Flowering Gold: American Capital and the Opium War (forthcoming with Yale University Press). YNWA.
@lmrhody.bsky.social
Deputy Director of Digital Initiatives, CUNY Graduate Center, Director of Digital Fellowship Programs, and Affiliated Faculty in MA in Liberal Studies, MA in Digital Humanities, MS in Data Analysis and Visualization, and Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
@brianleechphd.bsky.social
Historian of American West, Midwest, environmental history, mining, energy, food, animals. Currently researching the history of U.S. speed limits & mining in popular culture. https://brianleechphd.net
@drdeanclay.bsky.social
Historian of US & transnational activism. PhD in History. NUFC fan (& Milan occasionally too). www.congofreestate.com
@jasonhiggins.bsky.social
Digital Scholarship Coordinator/Assistant Prof at Virginia Tech. Author of Prisoners after War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration (UMass Press). Editor. Oral historian. I teach the Vietnam War and African American history. https://shorturl.at/HpPO7
@annadanzihalp.bsky.social
Director of the Center for Women’s History @NYHistory. Writing book on child care debates since 60s. she/her.
@laurenarrington.bsky.social
NEH Public Scholar (2023). I write books. Bylines @ LitHub, LARB, TLS, Irish Times, Public Books; rep’d Peter Straus @ RCW; Chair of English at the University of South Florida
@marcus1984.bsky.social
Historian (modern India, technology, foreign relations); editor (Contingent Magazine); advisor (scholarships, fellowships, research)
@daisymsc.bsky.social
Director of The History & Civics Project at UC Santa Cruz. PhD. History teacher, teacher educator, researcher, OAH Distinguished Lecturer, Michigan early women letter winner
@jendeaderick.bsky.social
DED-er-ick. Author SHE THE PEOPLE, a history of women’s citizenship in the US. Writer on gender, economics, boobs for Dame, NBER, NYT. May or may not be notable. Substack: https://jendeaderick.substack.com Other stuff: https://linktr.ee/jendeaderick
@miguelhernandez.bsky.social
Lecturer in American History at Aberystwyth University, specializing in the history of white supremacy, nativism and organized violence in the United States - Committee Secretary for HOTCUS
@hodanielmccallon.bsky.social
Digital archivist & public historian. Sewing & quilting the rest of the time 💾📜 Interests in digital collections usability, labor, environmental sustainability, records management, ethics, disability representation. hodanielmccallon.com
@nissaren.bsky.social
Teaching research writing @PWRStanford, writing about interwar expatriates (& passports & steamships & newspapers), UCLA/UCSB alum, book reviews editor @JMPS, SFUSD parent
@johnsenrm.bsky.social
Academic Affairs admin || Lit prof: crime fiction, 20/21c Irish lit, public scholarship || Exec Council, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study || NW Minnesota || http://www.rosemaryj.com || #GoGreen #UMNproud
@rajoyce.bsky.social
Archaeologist, anthropologist, once upon a time blogger. Author “The Future of Nuclear Waste”, “Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives”, “Sites, Traces and Materiality”. Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, Honorary PhD, Leiden Univ
@arnabdr.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @FGCU | PhD @UConn | Areas: World & South Asian Lit + Studies in Colonialism & Human Rights | host @NewBooksNetwork | Books on the Postcolonial Bildungsroman | Parent of 🐈⬛🐈 🐈⬛ arnabduttaroy.com
@vox-magica.bsky.social
historian of ancient christianity | researcher of magic & heresy | neurospicy | author of smoke & mirrors (OUP 2025) and magic and heresy (CUP 2025) | she/her
@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
@pdtoler.bsky.social
Writing unexpected history for smart adults and curious kids - and vice-versa. Author of Women Warriors and the forthcoming The Dragon From Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany. Kickass cook. www.pameladtoler.com
@michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social
Historian of Indigenous America, writer of books, and hearer of bands you’ve never heard in dingy clubs you’ve not likely visited. Good at trivia. MichaelLeroyOberg.com
@ariarch.bsky.social
Historian of Tx: Dotson’s White Slave Law. Camp Crystal Lake. #HATM callsign: Chainsaw. 🗃️ Gen-X 1L #LegallyGray Footnotes > Endnotes
@rebeccafachner.bsky.social
Historian. Tour guide. Traveler. Smart ass. DC based. New England raised. History pod is Tour Guide Tell All
@beccagrawl.bsky.social
Ward 4. DC tour guide, author, & public historian by day. Musical theatre, movies, & travel by night. https://linktr.ee/beccagrawl
@maryburke.bsky.social
Race Politics & Irish America (OxfordUP bit.ly/3XKj0nn) Excerpt: bit.ly/3FuH1sa Podcast: bit.ly/3ZT7pnW JuanitaCasey "HorseOfSelene"Afterword: bit.ly/3QTOlSo Irish/Irish-U.S. identities & cultures/ #irishresearch https://english.uconn.edu/person/mary-burke
@sarahchurchwell.bsky.social
Public Humanities Prof, School of Advanced Study, Univ London. American abroad. Journalism, US politics, cultural & literary history esp 1920s & 30s & F. Scott Fitzgerald. Podcast: Journey Through Time with David Olusoga. @throughtimepod.bsky.social
@profgidlow.bsky.social
Historian of US politics, voting rights, women, race, 19thA Wrote TheBigVote & Obama,Clinton,Palin Radcliffe Fellow@Harvard. Swam in RFK Sr's pool
@carlygoodman.bsky.social
Author, editor, professor of history, Philadelphian. Nobody should be deported. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469673042/dreamland/
@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.
@sjjphd.bsky.social
I study race, media, activism, feminism, tech and politics but not always in that order. Co-Director @miccenter.bsky.social Opinions definitely my own