History is Context

@beschlossdc1776.bsky.social

Author, PRESIDENTS OF WAR, 9 other books. @NBCNews Presidential Historian. @PBS contributor. Called "normally sober" by Financial Times. X address is @BeschlossDC. Born in Chicago.

@ruthbenghiat.bsky.social

History & Italian Professor, NYU; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant

@doriskgoodwin.bsky.social

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, #1 NYT bestselling author, public speaker, producer, MasterClass instructor. "An Unfinished Love Story" & "The Leadership Journey" everywhere books are sold.

@kenlburns.bsky.social

Making films about history for nearly 50 years.

@timothysnyder.bsky.social

Levin Professor of History at Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," with 20 new lessons on Ukraine, "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"

@hcrichardson.bsky.social

Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social

staff writer @theatlantic. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and now AUTOCRACY INC https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum

@lamercat.bsky.social

"Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.”