Historians of the North American West
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@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
@wstoutamire.bsky.social
Public historian | Associate Professor of History at the University of Nebraska at Kearney | Writes on the Antiquities Act, heritage, museums, & community history | Current Project -- Stealing Antiquity: Looting and Protecting the Past in Northern Arizona
@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.
@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
@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
@drdrewfolk1.bsky.social
Ph.D., History, Oklahoma State University Independent Scholar/Nebraska Sandhills Historian/Historian of the American West Amateur Agriculturalist She/Her Belongs to @StephanieFolk.bsky.social Swiftie NE Colorado #TransLivesMatter #BlackLivesMatter 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️⚧️
@cnzander.bsky.social
Historian of the Civil War + the American West (sometimes at the same time) • Assist. Prof. at Texas Woman's University • Colorado Native ⛰️ • Hat Wearer 🧢 • Owner of one border collie called Moe 🐶 • writing about Lincoln and the West for Liveright •
@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
@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.
@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
@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.
@jlappen1.bsky.social
energy historian | postdoc at Notre Dame, PhD at Oxford | infrastructure, decarbonization, and landscapes | Angeleno | always on the lookout for a good fun fact
@friefeld.bsky.social
Director of the University of Illinois Springfield Center for Lincoln Studies. Coauthor of The First Migrants and Homesteading the Plains. Friefeld.com
@jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, gender, & politics in the American West. Creator & Executive Editor Emerita, @nursingclio. She/Her/Hers
@smyyc.bsky.social
Public historian / historian in public. Philopolist, hockey fan, bonne vivante. Occasional wit, consistent learning.
@rvoss.bsky.social
Associate professor history and social science education coordinator at Northwest Missouri state. Capitalism, railroads, native America, and coal mining in the 19th century is what drives my work. Being a husband and dad to four amazing kids keeps me going
@sienriquez.bsky.social
Mujer de la Frontera | Mex-Tex in the Midwest | Assoc. Prof. of Chicanx, Urban, & Public History @ UMKC | Angry feminist |
@historynystrom.bsky.social
Historian, open source enthusiast, big nerd. Prof at University of Nevada, Reno. Interests include mining history, history of technology, digital history, social history, Nevada and the American West
@hknipp.bsky.social
she/her | eng MA, Marshall University | digital history PhD student @ Clemson University | Appalachian studies | histories of medicine | women, gender, sexuality | reproductive history | late 19th - early 20th century hallieknipp.net
@dougseefeldt.bsky.social
Brother, husband, father x2, record collector, western historian, director of ClemsonDH PhD @clemsondh.bsky.social
@mattbasso.bsky.social
War and Society, Labor, Masculinity, Race, Public History -- US and Aotearoa; Cattle Doggos, Kiddos, Cooking, Skiing, Biking, and Cocktails (Go Astros!)
@hangryhistorian.bsky.social
Phd Candidate | Digital Humanities | Public History | Borderlands Save the Adobes
@midwesternhistory.bsky.social
Official account for the Midwestern History Association, studying the history of the Heartland since 2014. Learn more and join us: https://www.midwesternhistory.com/
@kshistoryjournal.bsky.social
We publish new research on Kansas and Western history suitable for scholars and general readers. Quarterly and peer reviewed. We love history, and it shows.
@kassielkoester.bsky.social
Historian of Steamboating on the Upper Missouri & the Overland trail. Genealogist. Married to the love of my life, mama of 2 humans and 3 dogs. ☕️📷🎄
@kclement.bsky.social
Enviro, Animal, Disease, and Ag History | history prof aka professional Cassandra | Settler |🦓+🚫🌾 | river rat | terrible at banjo | views are my own
@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
@sarahkeyesphd.bsky.social
Historian. American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail out October 2023 for @PennPress. Associate Prof @UNRhistory.
@davidvailphd.bsky.social
Historian of Environment, Agriculture, Science, Medicine. New Project: Vulnerable Harvests: Emergency Conservation in the Cold War Great Plains (Nebraska Press). My posts and views are my own.
@jschiller.bsky.social
acquisitions editor, University of Oklahoma Press | history | environment | North American West | Sports | joe@ou.edu Also: hockey Detroit Lakes, MN
@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 🏇
@geohumanist.bsky.social
Place-based historian based in Philadelphia; professor at Penn; author of “Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees”
@bwinston.bsky.social
Digital Scholarship Specialist at Princeton University Library | Kind of still a historian | Long Island ex-pat
@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
@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
@aseh.bsky.social
Advancing understanding of human interactions with the natural world since 1977
@adamsowards.net
Writer & historian. Words all over. Usually about "the environment." Rooted in the Pacific Northwest. https://www.adamsowards.net/
@aberzanskis.bsky.social
Book worker, University of Oklahoma Press. Personal account. andrewb@ou.edu
@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.
@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.
@finisdunaway.bsky.social
Historian | Author of DEFENDING THE ARCTIC REFUGE, SEEING GREEN, & NATURAL VISIONS | Environmental History & Visual Culture | North American West, Arctic, & other places Arctic Refuge Public History site: defendingthearcticrefuge.com
@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.
@camdenburd.bsky.social
Historian. Nature person. My employer definitely does not share my views. www.camdenburd.com
@lahistory.bsky.social
Jogging the collective memory of Los Angeles through social media since 2009. Some people think LA has no history. They just don't know where to look.
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
cultural & environmental historian. #bchist and #cdnhist and #envhist. landscape, mobilities, public pasts, fordism, tourism, parks, infrastructure, rowdies, fruit stands, seasonality, 1970+, etc.
@rebeccawingo.bsky.social
Settler Scholar Assoc. Prof & Director of #PublicHistory University of Cincinnati Western & Indigenous History Current Research: Photography, Apsáalooke, Wyandot(te), Rondo, Digital Archives http://pronoun.is/she
@lindstorian.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of History at Illinois State University.
@andrewneedham.bsky.social
Historian at NYU. Environment, energy, climate, Indigenous history, American West. Also gripes and misadventures.
@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
@katecarp.bsky.social
Historian/writer. Creator, @draftingthepast.bsky.social podcast. History of science PhD candidate at Princeton, based in KCMO. Working on a history of storm chasing. https://draftingthepast.com/ http://kathrynbcarpenter.com/ Profile 📷 John Legg
@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/
@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
@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
@drmuseclio.bsky.social
She/Her. Mental health advocate. College prof. Historian. I study the experiences of women & African Americans in the American West. Aspiring novelist. Sports fan. Cat servant. Gen-X Swiftie. (I❤️ALL.THE.ERAS.) Settler on the lands of the Kansa people.
@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
@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
@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 | ⚓