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Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social · 8h

Melissa Littlefield joins us on @askhistorians.bsky.social today to discuss her new book Reinventing Wool: How a Natural Fiber Survived the Synthetic Revolution, from @hopkinspress.bsky.social. Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

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AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A new #Podcast is here #Skystorians! Join Dr. Lukas Rieppel to discuss the role of paleontology in the late 19th century. How the discipline evolved and how the robber barons, working class, & native peoples of the Gilded Age left a mark on paletonology. www.askhistorians.com/podcast-arch...

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Discussed and to a degree debunked in this @askhistorians.bsky.social reply of two years ago: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori... In short, the reports of this sort of thing are by later sources describing legends about much earlier times that are frankly, probably made up.

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AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We've been downgraded to a bastion of nervous tics and mild neuroses in a world gone utterly apeshit.

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Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

@martennoorduin.bsky.social joins us on @askhistorians.bsky.social today to discuss his new book American Pianists and Anti-Americanism in Germany and Austria-Hungary around 1900. Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

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Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm very excited that we've surpassed 20m views on Ask Me Anythings in under 2 years! We've hosted 171 AMAs in that time and we're far from done! We've covered bricks, bacon, hobos, goblins, manga, football, whiskers, gems, rum, and much more! Stay tuned!

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AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If your publisher unaccountably won't spring for a billboard in Times Square to advertise your new book, doing an AMA with us is clearly the next best thing.

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AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In 2025, we* launched a new initiative to bring more (and more varied!) AMAs to our forum. Yesterday, we passed 20m cumulative views for this new AMA series. More people have now seen these AMAs (20,003,000) than live in the state of New York (20,002,470).

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AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Don't miss this fantastic #AMA! #Skystorians can ask all kinds of questions to learn more!

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Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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

There was one hero with impeccable taste. Also the only person with a Zelda game. They should give that guy a raise.

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

At least one of us short-circuited choosing between II, IV and V and just opted to ignore the series altogether.

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

There's degeneracy and Degeneracy

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

Someone did include it alongside AoE II (literally their first two picks, which likely has them going on a watchlist somewhere)

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

Oh I'm sorry did you expect us to hear that noise and instantly change our mi—

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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

Our pedantry is highly mitigated tyvm

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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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