There is life beyond corporate-controlled algorithmic search engines and social media platforms. The vibrant indieweb internet that once was is showing signs of renewed vigor. The humble blogroll is once more.

  • Age of Revolutions – Peer-reviewed group blog.
  • Airminded – Brett Holman has been engaging with airpower and British society, ca. 1908-1941, on this personal research blog since 2005.
  • Buzz Machine – Jeff Jarvis offers constructive criticism of major, but frequently lazy outlets.
  • Civil War Memory – Don’t let his current Substack domain fool you. Kevin Levin has been engaging the public with his blog posts since 2005 (archive).
  • Dan Cohen – History, libraries, digital tools, knowledge, and more.
  • Erin Kissane – Thoughtful, well researched reporting on social media, the social web, and so on. Her site includes a detailed series on Meta’s role in the Rohingya genocide.
  • Family Inequality – Sociologist Philip N. Cohen on all manner of topics.
  • History Carnival Archives – Some of the early history blogs that hosted a carnival still exist, and all of the blog carnivals were captured by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. This is a treasure trove of history blogging during its first decade, and a great example of blogging as connection and socially-constructed knowledge.
  • History of Knowledge – A blog curated by the GHI Washington, DC. I cofounded this site and collaborated on it for some five years.
  • In Moscow’s Shadows – Historian and security expert Mark Galeotti offers deep insights on Russia’s corrupt criminal regime.
  • Kai Arzheimer – Posts in German and English, primarily party politics with lots of material on Germany, the AfD, and the extreme right more generally.
  • Karin Wulf – Historian and librarian of Vast Early America with a strong interest in the nexus between reading and writing in historical context.
  • LSE Impact Blog – This blog focuses on scholary communication and its reach beyond academia. (One caveat: it’s been slow to catch up with the post-Twitter world.)
  • Migrant Knowledge – A group blog curated by the GHI Washington, DC, also with my initial involvement.
  • Nursing Clio – A long-running group history blog at the nexus of health, gender, everyday life, and more.
  • Rightlandia – Seth Coltar on the history of the far right in the United States.
  • The Stone and the Shell – Ted Underwood, currently a keen observer of LLMs, more generally using the digital to probe literary history.
  • Thinking about… – Historian Timothy Snyder has a lot to say about Ukraine, Russia, authoritarianism, and democracy.
  • W. Caleb McDaniel – Blogging since the days of history carnivals, Caleb covers U.S. history, pedagogy, study tips, technology, and more. He’s also got a microblog on the same site under the “updates” menu heading.

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Last update: January 19, 2025