North American West History
A place for historians of the North American West—vastly cartographed and conceived.
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@dcsackman.bsky.social
@connieychiang.bsky.social
History & Enviro Studies prof at Bowdoin College. Editor of Nature Unfurled: Asian American Environmental Histories @uwapress.bsky.social
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
Staff writer at The Atlantic. Cat guy, democracy defender. Actor for a day on Succession, Jeopardy champ. Atlantic Starter Pack: go.bsky.app/NVbMa2Y
@joshfromtexas.bsky.social
Old West history, podcasts, youtube https://www.wildwestextra.com/
@sienriquez.bsky.social
Mujer de la Frontera | Mex-Tex in the Midwest | Assoc. Prof. of Chicanx, Urban, & Public History @ UMKC | Angry feminist |
@kathleenconti.bsky.social
Asst. prof of public history and historic preservation at Florida State University. Writing on race and representation at US historic sites.
@kmassotphd.bsky.social
Historian. Educator. Assistant Professor @ University of New Mexico. 📚🌵 Chair of the Coalition for Western Women's History (CWWH). *Keeping House* coming soon from the David Weber Series at UNC Press.
@haydenlnelson.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @ the University of Kansas | Writing an Environmental History of the North Woods | Chair of the ASEH Early Career Caucus | Adjunct @ the University of Central Missouri | WI➡️MT➡️KS haydenlnelson.com
@erikaperez22.bsky.social
Historian of early CA, gender, sexuality, borderlands. L.A. native. Views my own, not my employer. NEH fellow, 2023-24, Huntington Library. ❤️ jigsaw puzzles, cross stitching, burlesque, comedy shows, deejays. Look for me on the dance floor! 🪩 🏳️🌈🖤💙
@holly-g.bsky.social
Editor, Utah Historical Quarterly. Author of Show Town: Theater & Culture in the PNW. Mother, nature lover, baker. My views are my own. #culturalhistory #Americanwest #Utah
@memontoya.bsky.social
Historian of the American West. Lead Author of Global Americans. Associate Professor of History at NYU.
@geraldo-cadava.bsky.social
Professor at Northwestern University. Contributing Writer at The New Yorker. Editor at Public Books. Host of Writing Latinos. University of Arizona basketball fan.
@dradorisita.bsky.social
Legal historian, Colombiana artist, horror girlie ✌🏽 Current Law & History Fellow @ Stanford Law & Stanford Center for Law and History Soon to be Assistant Professor of US Latiné History @ Appalachian State University
@ornelashigdon.bsky.social
Historian of California and the West. Author of “The Grapes of Conquest: Race, Labor, and the Industrialization of California Wine, 1769–1920” Opinions are my own. She/her/ella
@mattjgarcia.bsky.social
Owns Taste for Good Farm; has written three books; happy Vermonter
@elliottyoung.bsky.social
Borderlands and Transnational Migration historian at Lewis & Clark College in Portland. Expert witness for asylum. Tepoztlán Institute. Migration Scholar Collaborative. Stanford Migration & Asylum Lab. Author of Forever Prisoners, and Alien Nation.
@oddduck8.bsky.social
I'm a historian who still sorta believes that studying the past can help us avoid making the same stupid mistakes all over again.
@latinohistory.bsky.social
Professor of Latinx history @ Yale. Center director (RITM). Ezra Stiles. Dogs.
@byureddcenter.bsky.social
- The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at BYU - Promoting & funding the study of the North American West with special emphasis on the Intermountain regions of AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, and WY - https://reddcenter.byu.edu
@karl-jacoby.bsky.social
Professor of History at Columbia University; author of CRIMES AGAINST NATURE, SHADOWS AT DAWN: A BORDERLANDS MASSACRE AND THE VIOLENCE OF HISTORY; and THE STRANGE CAREER OF WILLIAM ELLIS. Working on a new project on the US-Mexico War (1846-1848).
@josealamillo.bsky.social
Professor at CSU Channel Islands and researcher of Mexican American cultural history. Enjoys food, live concerts, movie theaters, hiking and outdoors, playing tennis and attending Dodgers games.
@collthrush.bsky.social
Historian, University of British Columbia. My newest book Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific will be released by the University of Washington Press in May 2025. For more, see collthrush.com. Also birds, ghosts, and tattoos.
@rizzomartinez.bsky.social
Professor of Film & Digital Media @ UCSC, historian, settler on Awaswas Ohlone lands, author http://tinyurl.com/3x538386, co-producer of podcast - Challenging Colonialism, https://rss.com/podcasts/challengingcolonialism/. Advocate for decolonization.
@minnabird.bsky.social
Californian with an appreciation of the Midwest. All posts are 100% mine. I speak for myself and never for any institution with which I might be affiliated.
@amykohout.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History, Colorado College TAKING THE FIELD (Nebraska, 2023) #envhist #USWest views my own
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://sethcotlar.substack.com/
@omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social
Professor of #History & Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at #UTSA, Latinas/os, borderlands, immigration, U.S. West, history and memory of US-Mexico War. Remembering Conquest: bit.ly/49iuqFv
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
@jenandrella.bsky.social
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at Knox College | Historian of the US West, Native American history, and Reconstruction jenniferandrella.com | knoxabolitionlab.org | mappingtheuppermissouri.com
@profbridgett.bsky.social
Writer, early retiree, former associate professor of 18th/19th US history. UIowa PhD/COGS-UE. Former dementia caregiver. Boomer by birth, Gen x by grace of god. Book project on long emancipation and Black resistance in southern Indiana, 1780-1830.
@lwieck.bsky.social
Historian of 20th and 21st cities, US West, race and culture. Associate Professor and Director of Public History at St. Mary's Univ. Lover of books, coffee, and flowers.
@lawrencecphd.bsky.social
Historian of environment/climate/cities/culture. SLC via AL and LA; UCLA Bruin. Book: The Frontier of Leisure: SoCal and the Shaping of Modern America; currently writing a book about climate and history in the US and North America.
@eladiobobadilla.com
Pittsburgh-based historian of social movements, radicalism and extremism, the working class, and immigration and ethnicity. Father. Autism advocate. Duke, Steelers, Penguins, Pirates, Riverhounds, RSL, USM&WNT, Liverpool, St. Pauli.
@theotherdrstern.bsky.social
Historian of power⚡️Assistant Prof at CCNY 🦫 U.S.-Indigenous history in the Civil War and Reconstruction Era 🌎 Writing a book on Reconstruction in Indian Territory 📕 NativeReconstruction.com 💻 Stanford Ph.D. by way of UPenn 🌲 Kentuckian 🏇
@mattbasso.bsky.social
War and Society, Labor, Masculinity, Race, Public History -- US and Aotearoa; Cattle Doggos, Kiddos, Cooking, Skiing, Biking, and Cocktails (Go Astros!)
@justingage.bsky.social
Historian, Assistant Professor in Arkansas. Author of awards winning We Do Not Want the Gates Closed between Us. https://linktr.ee/justingage
@seokweonjeon.bsky.social
US Religious Historian with a focus on MBC (migration, borders, citizenship), Asian America, US Imperialism | PhD Candidate @Harvard Religion & Fellow @Weatherhead | Every Thu.@BOS.Symphony | Reading Now:📚 How Our Days Became Numbered 🔗 seokweonjeon.com
@jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, gender, & politics in the American West. Creator & Executive Editor Emerita, @nursingclio. She/Her/Hers
@bobbylee.bsky.social
Historian of the United States, mostly in the 19th c., colonialism, land, GIS. American abroad
@jryanfish.bsky.social
US historian of settler colonialism and the environment in the Twin Cities.
@drmendozan.bsky.social
Asst Prof at CU-Boulder | studies modern US history; pedagogy | Reviews Editor Teaching History A Journal of Methods https://www.colorado.edu/history/natalie-mendoza
@jasonheppler.org
Historian of the #AmWest, #aghist, #envhist, capitalism, & politics | Senior Developer-Scholar @ rrchnm.org | Adj. Prof. @ GMU | Books and more: jasonheppler.org | Farmsteading in Nebraska | Views own | ⚓
@heesoocho.bsky.social
PhD candidate in History at Washington University in St. Louis. Interested in early American perceptions of the Pacific Ocean 🐳🌊🏝️🗺️
@cjbrandau.bsky.social
Native American Studies PhD focused on Alaska Native history, memory, and knowledge Lecturer UCD/Sac State He/Him/His, cat person, lapsed guitar player
@embsumek.bsky.social
Historian of the US West. Supporter of Digital humanities and creator of digital timeline software called ClioVis. Austinte.
@cathleendcahill.bsky.social
Historian of US women & gender, race & citizenship in the GAPE. Currently working on a graphic history. 🖍️I’ve lived in all 4 continental time zones, but CA in the redwoods 🌲is home.
@drgenacarpio.bsky.social
Professor, Writer, Learner | Race, History, California Author Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place & Mobility Make Race, http://bit.ly/collisionsbook
@hstgrrl.bsky.social
Studies 19th-early 20th C. history of race, gender, ethnicity, and disability with a focus on California. Author of California and The Politics of Disability, 1850-1970 and other stuff, too.
@jostler.bsky.social
Semi-retired history professor, University of Oregon. Thinking about genocide.
@tracibrynne.bsky.social
Environmental history, history of reproduction, EJ+RJ. Author of The Settler Sea (2021) & Wastelanding (2015). Currently writing Natural Childbirth: An Environmental History.
@seankheraj.bsky.social
#CdnHist and #EnvHist Professor and Vice-Provost Academic @TorontoMet. Executive member of Network in Canadian History & Environment. He/Him
@berincole.bsky.social
historian, museum professional, and cartoonist. Currently working on a graphic history/memoir about nuclear Colorado. Comics: http://www.littlebraincomics.com Merch: http://littlebraincomics.etsy.com
@geohumanist.bsky.social
Place-based historian based in Philadelphia; professor at Penn; author of “Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees”
@guprofbc.bsky.social
aka Prof BC, kbc. it's me! i'm the problem it's me! , Georgetown University, Harvard UP, writing abt the Phelps-Dodge family & copper mining, rage-tweets "work-life balance" #momprof #immigrationhistory #Arizona
@larrycebula.bsky.social
"The Lightning Rod of Weirdness." Public historian, bicyclist, noted bon vivant. Taking a break from politics so if I unfollow you that's why.
@briandelay.bsky.social
Berkeley Historian. Author of War of a Thousand Deserts. For Norton, finishing Aim at Empire: An international History of American Revolutions, through the Barrel of a Gun. Also 2nd Amendment cases. Birds, too. https://history.berkeley.edu/brian-delay
@elsadevienne.bsky.social
Historian | Made in 🇫🇷 Lives in 🇬🇧 Writes about 🇺🇲 | Envtal Justice, Beaches, Cities, Plastics | 📘 SAND RUSH: THE REVIVAL OF THE BEACH IN 20TH-CENTURY LA 🏖️ | 🚲 +🚶🏻♂️ advocate | Here for work but also random stuff
@legg.bsky.social
Scholar of Indigenous & Public History 📖 PhD, George Mason. Researching Eastern Dakota mobility, diplomacy, and resistance in the Civil War era. Book Review Editor H-CivWar. Engaged in #DigitalPublicHistory. https://www.johnlegg.org
@adamsowards.net
Writer & historian. Words all over. Usually about "the environment." Rooted in the Pacific Northwest. https://www.adamsowards.net/
@brendenwrensink.bsky.social
-Historian, American West, Borderlands, Environment, Indigenous Peoples -Professor @ BYU & Assoc. Director @byureddcenter.bsky.social -Podcast Host/Producer @WritingWestward.bsky.social -Editor IntermountainHistories.org -Books/Projects linktr.ee/BWRensink
@hollyguise.bsky.social
Iñupiaq Alaska Native historian in ABQ. Tries to write. Oral historian- check out ww2alaska.com. Author of: https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295752525/alaska-native-resilience/ ask your library to order a copy!
@nellstra.bsky.social
Historian of transnational politics & religion between US & Latin America. Postdoc, SDSU. Co-founder, histcatmex.bsky.social. Social justice. Foodie. https://nathanellstrand.com/
@andrewneedham.bsky.social
Historian at NYU. Environment, energy, climate, Indigenous history, American West. Also gripes and misadventures.
@lindstorian.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of History at Illinois State University.
@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
@maggieblackhawk.bsky.social
Professor, NYU Law; scholar of Congress, the Constitution, and American colonialism; she/her/kwe.
@bethlewwilliams.bsky.social
Historian at Princeton University. Preoccupied with immigration, past and present.
@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
@cjdenial.bsky.social
Historian: women, early 19C Dakota and Ojibwe country; Dir: Bright Institute @ Knox College; author, A Pedagogy of Kindness (https://bit.ly/OrderPoK); catherinedenial.org; https://redbrickagency.com/cate-denial/; posts my own; she/her; settler, Native land
@erikloomis.bsky.social
Labor and environmental historian. Writer of books, teacher of American horrors, talker on labor movement. Beer, country music, and football are not just for the right wingers. Cats. The West. Music. Graves. Writes at https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/
@mkn.bsky.social
Colorado-born and raised, Boston-based. Writer. Historian. Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Author of “Saving Yellowstone” (2022) and “The Three-Cornered War” (2020). 2024-25 Rogers Fellow at the Huntington Library in SoCal. http://www.megankatenelson.com
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
@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