Today @dygottlieb.bsky.social joins us to discuss his new book Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquored New York, new from @harvardpress.bsky.social. Come check it out on @askhistorians.bsky.social! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Today Dwaipayan Banerjee joins us on @askhistorians.bsky.social for an Ask Me Anything on his book Computing in the Age of Decolonization: India's Lost Technological Revolution. Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Okay, bear with me for a second. Because I've held this theory for a long time. And I kinda feels like this confirms it. The death of Harambe was the tipping point of no return for the unserious right-wing turn of America. 🧵

I'm doing an AMA on r/AskHistorians today. Anything and everything you've ever wanted to know about labor history, urbanization, deindustrialization, and the economy! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

We have an Ask Me Anything with @drhistorybrad.bsky.social today discussing labor and class history. Come check it out on @askhistorians.bsky.social! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Or stay online for some! There are a few Ask Me Anythings in the @askhistorians.bsky.social line up for the days leading up to the 250th that folks may want to keep an eye out for 👀

This week Historians At The Movies is singing about the history of suffrage in America. Join us on PBS this Sunday, May 24 at 8pm eastern for SUFFS. If you like a little different side of history, then share this post and keep #HATM growing. See ya there.

Today Sveinn Jóhannesson joins us on @askhistorians.bsky.social to discuss his new book from @uchicagopress.bsky.social The Scientific-Military State: How Enlightened Engineers Reinvented Early American Government. Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

We have @jonathansjones.bsky.social joining us for an Ask Me Anything on his recent @uncpress.bsky.social book Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America's First Opiod Crisis. Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Today @gauthamrao.bsky.social joins us to talk about his new book from @uncpress.bsky.social White Power: Policing American Slavery. Come check it out! @askhistorians.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Today Thomas Swensen joins us to talk about Native American punk history! Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Today @emilydufton.bsky.social joins us to talk about Addiction, Inc.: Medication-Assisted Treatment and America's Forgotten War on Drugs. Come check it out! @uchicagopress.bsky.social @askhistorians.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Among my obsessions, the critical importance of government documents. As a historical subject as well as source. IOW, it's *always* been a data state. My new piece for Smithsonian on chasing paperwork around the American Revolution. Owes to work by: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ever...

So...let me get this straight. They HOWL about how professors are indoctrinating students with their political ideology... ...and then show an image of a "teacher" doing precisely that. What nonsense. Offensive nonsense.

Today on AskHistorians we have @konstrukt.bsky.social discussing his new book Biafra: A Military History as well as African military history more generally! Come check it out! @askhistorians.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Looking forward to this AMA on @askhistorians.bsky.social this week!

Today on AskHistorians, John Morris is discussing military education between 1815 and 1945! Come check it out! @askhistorians.bsky.social @uvapress.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

What would American liberty be without Congregationalism? Dr. Emerson “Tad” Baker traces a thread of puritan influence from the Salem witch trials to the Bill of Rights in this clip from our “Oxford Handbook of Puritanism” roundtable.

Today we have Jacynda Ammons answering questions about her new book We Are Black, Too: Aboriginal Australians and the Black Panther Party from @oupress.bsky.social. Come check it out! @askhistorians.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Today on AskHistorians, we have @cottenseiler.bsky.social discussing White Care: The Impact of Race on American Infrastructure, new from @uchicagopress.bsky.social! Come check it out! @askhistorians.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Today on r/AskHistorians we have Lauren Henley discussing her fantastic new book Inquisition for Blood: The Making of a Black Female Serial Killer in the Jim Crow South. Come check it out! @askhistorians.bsky.social @lsupress.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

How do concerns about AI shape people's sense of community & information trust online? CAT Lab surveyed thousands of redditors in @askhistorians.bsky.social to find out. Our survey is special because we surveyed viewers, commenters, and banned accounts. (1/🧵) www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Come check out today's AMA with @jwendt001.bsky.social!

I dumped some feelings in a blog post about teaching DH right now. mackenziekbrooks.info/update/2026/...

FANTASTIC Q&A with Dan - do not miss it!

Curious about AskHistorians, Reddit, and digital public history? I recently spoke to UNC Press about that! Read more here! @askhistorians.bsky.social

Washington ordered smallpox inoculations for the Continental Army beginning in 1777. Hegseth, therefore, is taking a mid-18th century, pre-Industrial Age approach to medicine and warfare.

Come check out today's AMA with Charles L. Ponce de Leon for his new book Rolling Stone and the Rise of Hip Capitalism, new from @uncpress.bsky.social

4/21, Tuesday— Ciruce Movahedi-Lankarani, author of Accelerant: Energy Infrastructures and the Natural World in Making Modern Iran, will be holding an AMA on the subreddit r/AskHistorians. Now is the perfect time to come up with questions for him! Further details to follow

Ever been interested in the AskHistorians behind the scenes? The fantastic @sarahagilbert.bsky.social has drafted up a fascinating post on the data and shared the Community Survey Results! Explore the surveys methods, & dive into the results, in this great thread: old.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Come check out today's AMA on the Aztecs, colonial Mexico, and Indigenous people in the wake of Spanish conquest!

Today on AskHistorians, Michael Bycroft is discussing the history of gemstones during the Scientific Revolution! Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori... @askhistorians.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social

We've gotten a lot of tomato history questions over the years at AskHistorians so I'm very happy that today we have @annygaul.bsky.social's Ask Me Anything on tomatoes in Egpytian culinary history! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori... @askhistorians.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social

Today on AskHistorians we have @profnoather.bsky.social discussing extremism and the formation of American democracy! Come check out this Ask Me Anything! @askhistorians.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Keep some time free tomorrow, because we're going to have a fascinating #AMA with Dr. Noah Eber-Schmid, author of Founding Fanatics: Extremism and the Formation of American Democracy!

Lonnie G. Bunch III writes about Martin Van Buren as the architect behind a system most people take for granted. Often remembered more for nicknames than accomplishments, Van Buren helped normalize the idea of political parties as an engine of national unity, not just a threat to it.

Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally” Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”

Come check out today's Ask Me Anything over on @askhistorians.bsky.social! @uncpress.bsky.social

Be sure to check this out on Friday over on @askhistorians.bsky.social!

“The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget proposes to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency.” — NEH.gov The NEH has $207 million for FY2026. War in Iran? 1 billion per day. We go through 4.83 NEHs a day for what?

"The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget proposes to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency." bit.ly/41M4pvK

As of now, the next 7 weeks on AskHistorians are currently 3 Ask Me Anythings per week! @askhistorians.bsky.social Be sure to drop in to check out topics as varied as the Aztecs, hiking the Appalachian Trail, energy in Iran, Rolling Stone Magazine, race & infrastructure, Native punk, and more!

Today on AskHistorians, Josh Shiver joins us for an AMA on emotions and Confederate soldiers for his new book War Fought and Felt. Come check it out! @askhistorians.bsky.social @lsupress.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Today on r/AskHistorians, we have @goberle.bsky.social discussing Creating an Informed Citizenry: Knowledge and Democracy in the Early American Republic, new from @uvapress.bsky.social Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

What's that? UNC Press content delivered straight to your inbox? Yep! We're officially on Substack 😎 uncpress.substack.com/p/your-favor...

Listen up #Skystorians, because its #AMA time again! Dr. Josephine Hoegaerts has joined us for a chance to answer any and all your questions about voices of the past, speech, speech impediments and sound history! old.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Today on @askhistorians.bsky.social we have an Ask Me Anything with @singingarchives.bsky.social for Speaking, Stammering, Singing, Shouting: A Social History of the Modern Voice. Come check it out! @pennpress.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Taking a break from teaching, researching, and writing about the Salem Witchcraft Trials... to watch an opera of a play based on the Salem Witchcraft Trials

Our #AMA with @oliviaweisser.bsky.social is live #Skystorians! Come learn all about the fascinating #History of The Dreaded Pox! old.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...