Historians of Movements and the Left
Writers, scholars, organizers, archivists, and journalists working on the history of social movements, left and left-leaning
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@joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social
@readingrenae.bsky.social
Curator. Librarian. Public historian. Minding y’all’s business via archival collections.
@scottwstern.bsky.social
Reader, writer, environmental lawyer. Books: The Trials of Nina McCall (2018); There Is A Deep Brooding in Arkansas (2025); Shakespeare’s Margaret (2026). Words: NYRB, TNR, WaPo, Atlantic, LARB, Jacobin, etc. For more: www.scottwstern.com
@greeneland.bsky.social
Labor and migration historian @UMaryland. Pre-order Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal! https://tinyurl.com/Pre-Order-Box-25
@maxberger.bsky.social
Just happy to be here. Co-Founder IfNotNow, More Perfect Union, Momentum Training Institute. Formerly Warren, Justice Democrats, etc.
@remarksist.bsky.social
European historian. A socialist. occasional writer. Bylines mainly in Jacobin 📍 Berlin 🚩
@harveyjkaye.bsky.social
Professor Emeritus of Democracy @UWGB @AFTunion.bsky.social Award-winning #Author/editor of 18 books & CoAuthor of 21C Economic Bill of Rights https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/economic-bill-of-rights 🌹🇺🇸
@andrespertierra.bsky.social
Historian of Cuba and Communist systems. LatAm & Caribbean History PhD candidate at UW-Madison. U of Havana BA, UW-Madison MA. Bylines in The Nation Mag & Dissent Mag, among others.
@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.
@willpjones.bsky.social
Historian of race and class; Author: The March on Washington & The Tribe of Black Ulysses; Professor, University of Minnesota; President, @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social; Editor, "Up For Debate" @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social ORCHID: 0000-0001-9295-866X
@kenyonz.bsky.social
Historian of 19th-20th century migration, labor, and radicalism. Author of Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America. kenyonzimmer.com
@fraserraeburn.bsky.social
Historian interested in foreign fighters, transnational solidarities, emotion, anti-fascism and the Spanish Civil War. Currently based at @uvahumanities.bsky.social. Author 'Scots and the Spanish Civil War' (EUP, 2020). He/him.
@tnflorvil.bsky.social
Associate Prof. of History @UNM/Author of Black Germany (2023 @ChLinksVerlag)/ traveler/foodie/griever/@RadInstitute Fellow 2023-24/Working on a biography of Black German activist and poet May Ayim/ https://www.tiffanynflorvil.com/
@william-sturkey.bsky.social
Historian, Author, avid reader. Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Latest book here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/william-sturkey/the-ballad-of-roy-benavidez/9781541600263/?lens=basic-books
@chadwilliams.bsky.social
Professor of History and Black Studies | Award-winning author | 'The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War' | Dad | Husband | Aging hooper | Wu-Tang forever | chadlwilliams.com
@joshkluever.bsky.social
Lecturer at Alvernia University | Studying Socialist State Legislators in the 20th-century US | Managing Editor @cliocontemporary.bsky.social | Social Media Director for @midwesternhistory.bsky.social | Solidarity Forever🌹
@rauchway.bsky.social
Historian. Florida man. Keep Bluesky weird. http://ericrauchway.com pfp by Daniel Mackie
@robmickey.bsky.social
Political Science @umich. book: https://bit.ly/3YQWgEi. US Reconstruction & nation building w/ David Waldner; policing w/ @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social + @dziblatt.bsky.social; race & democratic attitudes w/ V. Hutchings & @jardina.bsky.social.
@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
@riverlys.bsky.social
Historian of race and US cities, Associate Professor at Allegheny College, book in progress on multiracial activism in Philadelphia
@marthasjones.bsky.social
Historian | Writer | Lapsed Lawyer | Professor JHU | Director Hard Histories | The Trouble of Color (March 2025, Basic Books) | msjonz@jhu.edu
@keeanga.bsky.social
historian, co-founder of Hammer & Hope, @NewYorker, DEI hire https://www.keeangataylor.com/
@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.
@zelizer.bsky.social
Princeton Professor. Also—The Long View, Substack; Foreign Policy; NPR. New York Times Best Selling Author. https://julianzelizer.substack.com/
@drashleydfarmer.bsky.social
Historian, Professor, Writer. Author. Next 📚: Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore (Pantheon, 25) ashleydfarmer.com
@gomantler.bsky.social
Historian, teacher, writer, activist, Baltimore native, and author of Power to the Poor and The Multiracial Promise. Also a fan of tennis, baseball, and cats. And now writing about memorials.
@willtchak.bsky.social
public historian amplifying HBCU radio voices http://wyso.org/hbcuradioproject // Anacostia Community Museum contributor https://anacostia.si.edu/dcwomenspeak // writing on police power & resistance, the carceral state & institutional memory // HTX-based
@elizabethkai.bsky.social
Historian of U.S. Inequality, Author of America on Fire and From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, Professor of History, Black Studies, and Law @Yale
@historyned.bsky.social
Historian of international crime, international law, human rights and the illiberal right in Germany at ZZF Potsdam. Also teaching at FU Berlin. he/him. Principal Investigator: #OtherGlobalGermany and #il_liberal
@redemmas.org
Worker-owned radical bookstore and cafe in Baltimore, the greatest city in America
@andyhines.bsky.social
political economy of higher ed | socialist and communist education | Black studies | author of OUTSIDE LITERARY STUDIES, editor of UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS (he/him)
@daschloz.bsky.social
Political scientist (at Johns Hopkins) and political button collector.
@kimkelly.bsky.social
labor journalist and author of ‘FIGHT LIKE HELL’ 🏴 big on metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. my books: https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kim-Kelly/178891913 my lefty heavy metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io rep: The Shipman Agency
@leximcmenamin.com
permanent Philadelphian in NYC news + politics editor @teenvogue.com member @transjournalists.org @leximcmenamin on twit/insta/tumblr linktr.ee/leximcmenamin
@jeannetheoharis.bsky.social
Distinguished Professor at Brooklyn College, Author of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South
@nathantankus.bsky.social
President of Notes on the Crises Inc. (crisesnotes.com) Book: [About Undetermined], under contract with Viking Books email: crisesnotes(at)gmail(dot)com Signal: NathanTankus.01 (only for reporting, not reader speculation) https://linktr.ee/crisesnotes
@robgreeneii.bsky.social
Claflin University Assistant Professor of History; AAIHS President; S-USIH Pub Chair; Co-Host *Our New South* podcast; Modjeska Simkins School Lead Instructor; historian, writer, Star Trek fan
@nicksturm.bsky.social
post45 poetry, small press publishing, print culture, history of arts funding | Lecturer in English @ Georgia State | co-director of NNYSS | editor of books w/ Fonograf & City Lights | book on New York School poets with Columbia UP | nicksturm.com
@wihorne.bsky.social
Writer. Radical. Historian at UMD. PhD in History from GW. In Case of Emergency: https://tinyurl.com/mvmrcuvk. (he/him)
@davidmarcus.bsky.social
Literary Editor @TheNation. Working on a history of socialism in the United States. Essays and more: http://linktr.ee/davidimarcus
@davidklion.bsky.social
Working on a book about the legacy of neoconservatism. Columnist for The Nation, contributing editor at Jewish Currents, writer for many lefty mags. KLEE-on
@ositanwanevu.com
Contributing Editor | The New Republic Columnist | The Guardian Author | The Right of the People (2025) Newsletter | ositanwanevu.com
@ejwestuk.bsky.social
Fixed gear enthusiast. Dog walker extraordinaire. Historian of the Black Press and other things.
@ajseyler.bsky.social
I'm a public historian who moonlights in the archives. I'm a UMBC alum & deeply proud Baltimorean. I adore my cats, nature brings me joy, and I eat plants. I miss my grandmoms every day and I'm always fighting for a better world. Join me? ♓ [hyper-empath]
@mfkantor.bsky.social
historian of cities, race, policing, and carceral state | history prof. @ ball state u. | author of @UNC_Press JPP books Policing Los Angeles and DARE to Say No | Arsenal fan | opinions mine | linktr.ee/mfkantor
@vwidgeon.bsky.social
Professor of History and Gender Institute Director at the University at Buffalo. Writes about race, gender, utopia, and urban life.
@lkspence.bsky.social
Professor, Author, Son of Blood and Thunder, Father. Newsletter (https://lesters-newsletter-2ff539.beehiiv.com/subscribe), Knocking the Hustle ( http://bit.ly/1SzPlHi)).
@ajdouglas.bsky.social
political theorist at morehouse | latest books = http://bit.ly/mlkcrc + http://bit.ly/duboisccs | future book (maybe) on philosophies of money in the black radical tradition | marathoner | posts ≠ employer
@tomsugrue.bsky.social
Historian, urbanist, scholar of public policy, race, inequality. Silver Professor NYU. Dad, stepdad, dog dad. Native Detroiter, longtime Philadelphian, honorary Chicagoan, gringo Carioca, wannabe Parisian, and second-time New Yorker. Dual citizen: US/Éire.
@corinneblalock.bsky.social
Executive Director of @lpeproject.bsky.social | lecturer in all the senses at YLS | also @lpenyc.bsky.social | JD, PhD | opinions are mine alone
@jackmirkinson.bsky.social
Senior editor, The Nation (@thenation.com) | Editor/co-owner, Discourse Blog (@discourseblog.com) Get in touch: jmirkinson at thenation dot com / jack at discourseblog dot com
@zinnedproject.bsky.social
Zinn Ed Project: Teaching People’s History offers free classroom lessons, workshops, seminars, campaigns, teacher study groups, & more to teach outside the textbook. Coord. by non-profit orgs @rethinkingschools.bsky.social & @teachingchange.bsky.social
@prisonculture.bsky.social
co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, etc...
@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.
@drlisacorrigan.bsky.social
Rhetoric prof and author of Prison Power (2016) and Black Feelings (2020); both from @UPMiss. Editor of #MeToo: A Rhetorical Zeitgeist (Routledge).
@mguariglia.bsky.social
Historian of race, policing, surveillance, and technology. Senior Policy Analyst at EFF. Visiting Professor at Emory. Book on race and the origins of modern policing out now! MatthewGuariglia.com
@chenjerai.bsky.social
Study & teach critical media studies of empire Creator and host of Empire City @nyu_journalism Stories/ Political ed @crookedmedia @sceneonradio @uncivilshow @mothstories @streetpoetsinc
@melanienewport.bsky.social
US carceral and urban history, jail and policing. AAUP, abolition, working mom in CT, personal account.
@llchristyll.bsky.social
Researching development and its discontents. Pell grant prof. Co-director @hpe-project.bsky.social. Naclista pa’ siempre. #NoMoreDrugWar
@stschrader1.bsky.social
cops, counterinsurgency, the cold war, & the color line | author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing
@jessdouglas.bsky.social
Archivist, Baltimore, fast walker. I'm not mad, I'm just probably listening to a book. UMD, MLIS '23.
@historianheather.bsky.social
Pulitzer Prize winning author, book on Attica, next on Bernie Goetz/80s, then MOVE Bombing. In NYT, TIME, New Yorker, Atlantic, etc. + CJ policy work & script consulting. WritersHouse & CAA repped. www.heatherannthompson.com
@marisollebron.bsky.social
Queer Latina | Professor | Policing Life & Death | Aftershocks of Disaster | Against Muerto Rico | PRsyllabus
@dnbrgr.bsky.social
Writer of words, hater of prisons Author of STAYED ON FREEDOM: THE LONG HISTORY OF BLACK POWER THROUGH ONE FAMILY’S JOURNEY, plus other things. www.danberger.info | www.waprisonhistory.org
@triofrancos.bsky.social
Political Scientist, Providence College Strategic Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute Author / Resource Radicals (Duke UP 2020) Co-Author / A Planet to Win (Verso 2019) Forthcoming / Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism (WW Norton)
@austinmccoy.bsky.social
Historian, Old School Rap Specialist. Writing book on history of the Left in Midwest and another one about De La Soul. https://austincmccoy.com/ https://austincmccoy.substack.com/
@joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social
Author POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT (Oct. 2025) on civil rights activists vs. state violence, surveillance | Historian, University of Baltimore | Bylines at The Nation, Jacobin, Slate