#AmericanHistory is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 162 people shared 483 posts with it — around 16 a day. Activity is up 6% versus the previous week, peaking on Aug 1 with 30 posts.

Posts with #AmericanHistory

Carve Her Name

@carvehername.bsky.social

6 months ago

#OnThisDay, 30 Jan 1913, Ida B Wells forms the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, Illinois, to give a voice to Black women who had been excluded by national suffrage organisations because of their race. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️ 1/3

Ida B Wells in the 1920s. She is a Black woman with greying hair.

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Carve Her Name

@carvehername.bsky.social

7 months ago

#OnThisDay, 23 Jan 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell graduates with a medical degree. She is the first woman to receive one in the USA. She was also the first woman on the UK medical register. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #AmericanHistory 🗃️

Elizabeth Blackwell as a young woman. She is white, with dark hair in a bun.

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PoliticalNash

@politicalnash.bsky.social

6 months ago

Federal judge orders slavery exhibit at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall be restored, and called the Trump’s attempt to erase history Orwellian and horrifying #FDT #AmericanHistory #TrumpNaziPlaybook #DV1 #ProuBlue www.inquirer.com/news/phi….

www.inquirer.com

Federal judge orders Trump administration to restore slavery exhibits to the President’s House

The order does not give the federal government a deadline for restoring the President's House.

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Carve Her Name

@carvehername.bsky.social

4 months ago

"I don’t wear men’s clothes, I wear my own." #OnThisDay, 10 Apr 1864, army surgeon Dr Mary Edwards Walker is captured by the Confederates during the US Civil War. She later receives the Medal of Honor. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️ 1/2

Dr Mary Edwards Walker with her medal. She is a white woman with dark hair. She's wearing a dress and looking miserable about it.

Dr Mary Edwards Walker in later life. She is wearing a wing collar shirt with a cravat, a heavy overcoat and a top hat. She is a white woman with white hair.

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Carve Her Name

@carvehername.bsky.social

5 months ago

#OnThisDay, 3 Mar 1879, Belva Lockwood is sworn in at the US Supreme Court Bar, becoming the first woman admitted to it. #WomenInHistory #History #AmericanHistory #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth 🗃️

Belva Lockwood later in life. She is a white woman with white hair.

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Carve Her Name

@carvehername.bsky.social

4 months ago

“Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation." #OTD #History #AmericanHistory 🗃️ 1/2

An engraving of Abigail Adams from around the 1850s. She is a white woman with dark hair.

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Carve Her Name

@carvehername.bsky.social

6 months ago

We missed yesterday due to ill health but it's a fav so here it is today. On 25 Jan 1890, Nellie Bly arrives back in New York to huge crowds, becoming the first *person* to circumnavigate the world in less than 80 days (she took 72). #WomenInHistory #History #AmericanHistory 🗃️ 1/2

posed photo of Nellie Bly in her travelling outfit. She's a white woman with dark hair, wearing a full length bold check coat and raising her cap.

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Carve Her Name

@carvehername.bsky.social

12 months ago

#OnThisDay, 14 Aug 1922, Lizzie 'Spike' Murphy became the first woman to play major league baseball in the US. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️

promo photo of Lizzie Murphy in her baseball uniform. She is a white woman with her hair hidden by a baseball hat.

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Internet Archive

@archive.org

about 1 month ago

📜🇺🇸 Printed on the night of July 4, 1776, the Dunlap Broadside was the first published copy of the Declaration of Independence, carrying news of independence across the colonies. See more remarkable items from the Internet Archive's collections👇 blog.archive.org/2026/06/…. #AmericanHistory

The Dunlap Broadside of the United States Declaration of Independence, printed in Philadelphia by John Dunlap on July 4, 1776. The document is headed "In Congress, July 4, 1776" and titled "A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress Assembled." The full text of the Declaration is set in period typefaces, opening with the "When in the Course of human Events" preamble and proceeding through the statement of self-evident truths, the list of grievances against the British Crown, and the formal declaration of independence. The document is signed in print by John Hancock as President and attested by Charles Thomson as Secretary, with the imprint "Philadelphia: Printed by John Dunlap" at the bottom. The broadside is printed on aged cream-colored paper.

A close-up detail of the Dunlap Broadside showing the opening of the Declaration of Independence. Partial header text reads "United S[tates]" and "In Gene[ral Congress]." A large decorative drop capital "W" begins the preamble, followed by the text "HEN in the Course of" and continuing lines including "We hold these Truths," "unalienable Rights," "instituted among Men, deriving their just Pow[ers]," and "it is the Right of the People to alter," ending with the opening grievances "He has refused his Assent to Laws" and "He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws." The 18th-century typeface shows the characteristic long-s letterforms of the period. Printed on aged cream paper.

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History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage

@ottomanhistory.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

🎨 An Ottoman Map of #America, 19th Century #Map #OldMap #AmericanHistory #History

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Internet Archive

@archive.org

about 1 month ago

🇺🇸 As America marks its 250th anniversary, the Internet Archive is preserving & providing free access to materials documenting the nation’s founding and 250 years of Independence celebrations. Get an advance look at what’s coming here! ⤵️ 🔗 blog.archive.org/2026/06/…. #AmericanHistory

A collage of seven American historical ephemera arranged in a grid: a 19th-century hand-colored map of the United States spans the full top row; below it sit a two-panel teal illustration from a Bell Telephone booklet titled "50 Years of Progress," a narrow 1975 Amtrak Bicentennial Special brochure, and a video still of a man in Western costume with a cowboy hat and red bandana; the bottom row features the title page of an 1826 oration on American independence, a teal-covered pamphlet from the 1926 National Sesquicentennial Exposition titled "The United States Public Health Service," and the cover of "Valuable Recipes for Cooking Duryeas' Improved Corn Starch" (1876), a trade booklet presented at the Centennial Exposition, featuring an illustration of a classical female figure standing beside a large decorative jug.

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Christina Proenza-Coles

@proenzacoles.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Charles Remond was an early 19th century abolitionist & women’s rights advocate who spoke out against discrimination. His politically active, entrepreneurial family lived in Massachusetts. His maternal grandfather was a Black Revolutionary War veteran; his father was from Curaçao. #AmericanHistory