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Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social · 11h

Yana Skorobogatov joins @askhistorians.bsky.social today to discuss her new book Fate In My Hands: The Death Penalty in the Soviet Union, new from @uchicagopress.bsky.social. Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

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Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@lukeberryman.bsky.social joins us on @askhistorians.bsky.social today to discuss his new book Resisting Nazism: True Stories of Resistance to the World's Most Dangerous Ideology, from 1920 to the Present, new from @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social. Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

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Brandon W. Hawk @brandonwhawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey #MedievalSky, does anyone have something to answer this question from the medieval period? Now I’m personally curious if anyone has ever seen a medieval author writing about having an “earworm” (to use a recent term) like this. (Link to full reddit post below.) www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Screenshot of Reddit question on r/AskHistorians, with the title, “Do we have any historical record of someone describing having a song stuck in their head prior to the advent of audio recording and playback?” (For full text of the post & comments, follow the link in the skeet.)

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Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today Peter Eisenstadt joins us on @askhistorians.bsky.social to discuss his new boon Integration at Second Base: Jackie Robinson and the Quest for Black Citizenship, new from @uvapress.bsky.social. Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Excited to be running an AMA on r/AskHistorians next week! 👇

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AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Someone linked the "9 games that shaped who I am" in the AH moderator slack. Entirely predictably, everyone who has done it so far has included Age of Empires II, except for one absolute lunatic who put Age of Empires III instead.

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AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We're not sure there's a better profession to ask hyper-specific, niche questions of tbh

Why are such hyper-specific, niche interest questions being asked on a Historians subreddit?

Like, sorry if this goes against the rules here, but some of the questions that get asked are just mind boggling in their specificity. Who can even answer this?

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Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today Peter Staudenmaier joins us on @askhistorians.bsky.social to discuss his new book The Politics of Nature in Nazi Germany: Environmental Ideals and the Myth of Blood and Soil. Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

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Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Delighted to share that I'll be on @askhistorians.bsky.social to talk #ArtificialLight #LightPollution #Night #Darkness 🌌💡🌃🛰️ tomorrow, 9/22 -- the day that #TransformingNight drops! 🥳🤩 #envhist #envhum #histtech #histsci #sts #histSTM

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Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Asher Lubotzky joins us on @askhistorians.bsky.social today to discuss African perceptions of Israel and Palestine for his book, Shifting Solidarities, new from @uvapress.bsky.social. Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

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Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If you're at NCPH and AASLH this week in Providence, I have AskHistorians stickers and a lot of time to discuss doing public history on Reddit!

Stickers for the subreddit AskHistorians, one featuring the name of the subreddit and two of figures based on Reddit's Snoo mascot showing Jane Austen and Chief Joseph

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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What does it take to truly stand up to fascism? Join @lukeberryman.bsky.social, author of "Resisting Nazism" for an r/AskHistorians Reddit AMA! Ask him anything about the daring, untold stories of anti-Nazi resistance. 📆 Sept. 30th, 9 AM EST: bit.ly/4r39WtO 📖: bit.ly/4r3bnbG

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AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Look not all of the people who run this account are American but a planned AMA with a former Archivist of the United States *sounds* like a big deal, right? That's the kind of job title where the capitalisation is autocorrected.

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Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you're attending NCPH/AASLH this week in Providence and want to talk about doing history on Reddit, come find me! Happy to talk about r/AskHistorians (@askhistorians.bsky.social), AMAs, content moderation, and more! @ncph.bsky.social @aaslh.org

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I subbed in for another mod and this was first military-related conversation and it was so, so interesting!

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AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hot new episode of the AskHistorians #Podcast is live #Skystorians! @jennbinis.bsky.social talks with Robert E. C. Davis about his book, Lieutenants and Light: Mapping the US Army Heliograph Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Arizona and New Mexico! askhistorians.libsyn.com/askhistorian...

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The AskHistorians Podcast: AskHistorians Podcast Episode 252: Robert E.C. Davis and the US Army Heliograph Networks

u/EdHistory101 talks to Robert E.C. Davis about his book on the US Army Heliograph Networks in the American South. (38 minutes) 

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AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Reddit spam bots are getting increasingly sassy.

Two spam bot comments in the same thread, starting with 'good luck getting a straight answer here lol' and 'good luck finding a real answer here lol' respectively.

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AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There's always a good AskHistorians thread on something, but doubly so in this case.

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AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

help us procrastinate something; send us your most deranged history questions

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Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Today Ron James joins us on @askhistorians.bsky.social for his new book on Cornish folklore! Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

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AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Reddit is running an "r/bodega" publicity stunt in a New York convenience store this weekend, and one of our correspondents snatched one of AskHistorians postcards they're giving away!

An AskHistorians postcard. There's a stylised greek statue thing going on but really it's just mostly font tbh

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AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The time has come #Skystorians, for the greatest #AMA of all time. This is your chance to sit down with the entire moderating team of AskHistorians, and ask us anything! old.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

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We are the moderators of r/AskHistorians, Ask Us Anything!

We are ~~the Lords, your Mods~~ your most humble and obedient servants, your AskHistorians moderator team. It's been a while since...

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AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"You can't just remove anything, someone must have said something of value in there" Literally the entire comment section:

AskHistorians question:

Considering Zeus' and the other Greek gods legendary libidos, are their any records of greek women claiming unexpected pregnancies were the result of a union with a deity and if so how would such a claim be recieved by most people back then?

The current (removed) answers ("answers"), the longest of which is 10 words. Each makes one of two jokes:

"You're thinking of Jesus!"

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"ur mom"

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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Really interesting thread on Reddit's AskHistorians, and #PublicHistory:

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I don't have a direct Dolly story but I do have a Dolly-by-proxy one - and it's because of @askhistorians.bsky.social.

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Fraser Raeburn @fraserraeburn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

So, something I talk-about-but-not-really is that I'm one of the people on this moderation team and have been heavily involved in running the project since 2019. I first got into answering stuff about the Spanish Civil War, and then got more and more fascinated about how it all works...

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Gankom Neutral @gankom.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Can't wait to ask that cool digest guy what its like being a secret robot forever locked in battle with the Automod bot.

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Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I will not give up the location of the secret volcano lair, but I will tell you about managing the Ask Me Anything side of AskHistorians

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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

So many people equate online discourse with the cage match of personality on social media. AskHistorians offers a reliable collective, supportive alternative - and it has huge numbers despite not playing the influencer game. Excited to hear from the organizers this weekend!

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AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We have a special #AMA coming this Saturday, on August 29th. #Skystorians will have a chance to engage with the AskHistorians mod team themselves, and ask all their questions about running one of the largest (and best) history forums on the internet! Do we have a secret volcano lair? Find out...

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