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I research and write about the history of American liberalism and the Democratic Party.
PhD Candidate | UC Davis - Go Ags! | Political History | Latina/o/x Politics | California History
Historian and whatnot. Recently published FREEDOM WAS IN SIGHT! A GRAPHIC HISTORY OF RECONSTRUCTION IN THE WASHINGTON, D.C. REGION, with illustrations by the remarkable Liz Clarke. See also katemasur.com.
We Are the Richards Civil War Era Center, a scholarly home dedicated to the idea that the Civil War was fundamentally a struggle over the intersections of race, slavery, and democracy.
Democrat, Candidate for Wake County Commissioner At Large 2026
Professor, Harvard Kennedy School | Speaking in a personal capacity | https://msen.scholars.harvard.edu/
UNC History PhD candidate. Historian of gay rights activism and lesbian-feminism, student activism in the gay liberation era, and the 1970s South. NC born/raised/now. he/him ⚣
Greek-American. Baseball person. Views expressed here are mine & mine alone.
Law & Humanities Professor in Emory University’s History Department. Ph.D. in American Studies (UMN). I write about crime and punishment in American Culture. Author: Executing Freedom (2016), Crimesploitation (2022). Website: https://tinyurl.com/rmhsv6fx
Historian at Princeton University. Preoccupied with immigration, past and present.
Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor in History & Law @Penn. Co-runs the Legal History Blog. Research focuses on modern U.S. history, including poverty, disability, rights, federalism, agencies, the state, LPE.
Distinguished Prof of Law & History @UCLALaw, cat lady, mom, lover of democracy. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. Www.arielajgross.com
The JCWE—published by @uncpress.bsky.social and @richardscenter.bsky.social —is home to the most creative new work on the many issues raised by slavery, the sectional crisis, war, emancipation, and Reconstruction. https://tinyurl.com/4hnmffeu
The University of North Carolina Press
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Senior Fellow at @mmfa. Views expressed here my own. Husband of @alyssarosenberg. Dad. Not the former GOP congressman. Find me here: http://bio.site/mattgertz
Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
Milbauer Chair of Southern History, University of Florida
https://history.ufl.edu/directory/david-silkenat/
Historian of American slavery, Crimson Tide Intellectual.
Award-winning historian. Professor Emerita. Author of four books. Another in the hopper. My share of op-eds in NYT, WaPo, CNN, Time, & Smithsonian Magazine.
The SHA formed in 1934 with a mandate to take an investigative rather than a memorial approach to southern history. We have been investigating ever since.
Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
Assistant Professor in Swarthmore’s History Department studying how Africans survived enslavement, epidemics, and empires in the early modern Atlantic World.
Insta: @bydreamphd
Claflin University Associate Professor of History; AAIHS President; Co-Host *Our New South* podcast; Modjeska Simkins School Lead Instructor; historian, writer, Star Trek fan
Historian who lives in Connecticut and County Kerry. Latest book is Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination.
Teaching at NYU | scholar of religion, sexuality, disability, and race in the US | author of “Born Again Queer: A History of Evangelical Gay Activism and the Making of Antigay Christianity” (May 12, 2026) | 🏳️🌈🏃🏻♂️🎾
Historian. Florida man. Keep Bluesky weird.
http://ericrauchway.com
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Historian at Florida State University. Wrote STRANGER DANGER (@oxunipress.bsky.social) and THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RYAN WHITE (@uncpress.bsky.social). Writing THOSE FEARFUL DAYS and THE PASSION OF MATTHEW SHEPARD (@liveright.bsky.social / @wwnorton.com).
✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Historian of slavery in the American Revolution. Writing a book on people enslaved to the state.
Author of Author of Maladies of Empire & Sick from Freedom; Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation; Gilder Lehrman NEH Prof at Gettysburg College; https://www.jimdownsofficial.com
African American religious history & religion and race in America.
https://www.judithweisenfeld.com/
New-ish: Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake (NYU Press)
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Wishing for a thing does not make it so.
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"A very accessible, very interesting, non-bombastic political scientist." -Jonah Goldberg
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historian, co-founder of Hammer & Hope, @NewYorker, DEI hire
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Princeton Professor. Also—The Long View, Substack; Foreign Policy; NPR. New York Times Best Selling Author. https://julianzelizer.substack.com/
Historian at Brown University: https://history.brown.edu/people/seth-e-rockman Author of _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_ Nov. 2024, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo237040605.html
I am a NJ born and Boston-based historian and speaker. Author of numerous books, including A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. Visit: cwmemory.com
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rooting for everyone resisting oppression | slowly transitioning from social media | get connected at my website derecka.com/contact | author, Becoming Abolitionists
Historian, Educator, Asst. Prof. at Villanova | writing a book about Black radicalism, antifascism, fascism, and white supremacy | Philly + NYC
Founder @democracydocket.com. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Blue.
UF Alumna | UVa PhD | Assistant Professor | Historian | AKA
Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Virginia, author of The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America
PhD candidate in history at UMich, legal history, carceral state, childhood and youth; she/her; ; when all else fails, I bake cookies
Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.
Cassandra. Author Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America & Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (new ed. just out). Professor of History and Public Policy @ Duke. Views my own.
Historian @UNC, dad, author, record collector, cat caretaker, born in Buffalo, live in NC.
Author of To Live Here, You Have to Fight | Historian of 20th C U.S., Appalachia, labor, women & gender | Associate Prof. at WVU | Views mine. JessicaWilkerson.org
scholar, urbanist, freedom dreamer, northeast corridor
The University of Chicago Press is one of the oldest and largest university presses in the United States and a distinguished publisher of trade and scholarly books and journals. Refining minds since 1891!
writer. historian. sports guy. associate professor. @emoryUniversity. author of #PresumedCriminal and some other things.
Double dumb-ass on you. (And so fourth)
#AltText enthusiast. Also on mastodon, formerly on twitter. Other similar accounts are not me.
Allan Randall Freelon Sr. Prof. + Presidential Prof. of Communication & director: Politics, Identities, & Communication Lab (PICL) @asc.upenn.edu.
Historian, Author of Living in a DAISY Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made. Also writing book on history of the Left in Midwest.
https://austincmccoy.com/
https://austincmccoy.substack.com/
Labor historian; Exec. Dir. Georgetown University's Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor & the Working Poor; President, Labor & Working Class History Assn (LAWCHA)
Historian at Georgetown | author of Black Excellence: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism (2025) | Aries | Stevie Wonder stan
News Editor @mississippifreepress.org •Writer 🖋️ •Film Shooter 📷 •Husband 🏳️🌈 •Pibble Dad 🐾 Opinions = mine
Law, history, politics. Latest book: Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism.
https://makingtheforeverwar.mystrikingly.com/ #lawsky 🗃
Historian: Citizens of a Stolen Land; More Than Freedom; Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy. Midlife dog convert. Inyalowda.
Covering the environment for The Salt Lake Tribune 🤠
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Assistant Professor of Sociology at Princeton University
your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school.
Government prof at Georgetown University.
http://hansnoel.com
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
Hello, Bluesky! We are a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to promoting the knowledge and understanding of American history through programs for teachers, students, and the general public. Visit gilderlehrman.org to learn more.
Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracy—a lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird & Rosie the Resistance Bird.
https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755
Government PhD student, Harvard | APD, Reconstruction, and the administrative state
Musings On Jazz and Spinning Tales
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Staff writer at the New Yorker. Jes Grew Carrier.
https://www.julianlucas.com
Catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements.
splcenter.org
For more than 30 years Southern Cultures (UNC Press) has published the work of acclaimed authors & distinguished photographers on all things southern. SouthernCultures.org
Professor, NYU Law; scholar of Congress, the Constitution, and American colonialism; she/her/kwe.
The APSA LGBTQ Caucus supports all LGBTQ and allied political scientists by advocating for LGBTQ people, recognizing research on LGBTQ issues, and building community within APSA and regional associations.
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
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Historian of the Americas | Postdoc at the University of Cambridge
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Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Prof. of Law @nyulaw.bsky.social; Faculty Dir. @bwlcnyu.bsky.social; co-host @strictscrutiny.bsky.social; talking head @ms.now; @NYTimes.com bestselling author. Views mine. RT not endrsmt.
Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
U.S. historian | author of *Mississippi Law* | reader, eater, friend, southern
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4000-5060
Writer, Intellectual, Professor, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Child of God, nothing more, nothing less: http://imaniperryauthor.com/
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Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
historian of cities, race, policing, and carceral state | prof. @ uw-madison | author of
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JPP books Policing Los Angeles and DARE to Say No | Arsenal fan | opinions mine | linktr.ee/mfkantor
Ex-Interim Chair. No kings! Free puns. Historian. Books: Slave Country, Beyond Freedom's Reach. More: https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RXHCAA4/adam-rothman
Historian, Professor, Writer, Author. 👑📚: Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore (Pantheon, 25)
ashleydfarmer.com
Econ Assistant Prof at Yale SOM. Education, innovation, gender. Born & raised in Monopoli, Italy. Mom of 3.
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