80 Essential History Blogs

Cliopatria's History Blogroll is the central repository for history blogs of all kinds. It has now grown to over 1000 blogs, and whatever your topic, you are likely to find someone blogging about it there.

If you're wondering where to get started, today Ralph Luker posts a list of just eighty. "There is a group of history blogs that seem to me to be central to history blogging," he writes.

I don't presume to say that they are The Top 100 Liberal Arts Professor Blogs. Nor do I even suggest that they are better than other history blogs that are not on the list. I do mean to say that, without them, history education on the internet would be seriously impoverished. Below the fold are 80 history blogs that I recommend. You'll recognize some of them. Others, you may not yet have discovered:

• Acephalous
• AHA Today
• Airminded
• Altercation
• Ancient World Bloggers Group
• Archaeoastronomy
• Axis of Evel Knieval

• BibliOdyssey
• Blog Them Out of the Stone Age
• Blogenspiel
• bookn3rd
• The Bowery Boys
• Britannica Blog
• Built History

• Cabinet of Wonders
• Cardinal Wolsey's Today in History
• Chapati Mystery
• The China Beat
• Civil War Memory
• Civil Warriors
• A Corner of 10th Century Europe
• Curious Expeditions

• Dan Cohen
• Digital History Hacks
• A Don's Life
• Durham-in-Wonderland

• Early Modern Notes
• Early Modern Whale
• Easily Distracted
• The Edge of the American West
• edwired
• Eunomia
• Europe Endless

• Frog in a Well

• Ghost in the Machine
• Got Medieval

• Historiann
• A Historian's Craft
• Historiblogography
• History is Elementary
• History Unfolding
• Hugo Schwyzer

• In the Middle
• Informed Comment
• Investigations of a Dog

• Jottings from the Granite Studio

• Lawyers, Guns, and Money
• Legal History Blog
• The Little Professor

• Mercurius Politicus
• more than 95 theses

• New Kid on the Hallway
• The Nonist

• Obscene Desserts
• Old Is The New New
• OUP Blog

• PhDinHistory
• PhDiva
• Pink Tentacle
• Politics & Letters
• Positive Liberty
• Progressive Historians
• The Proletarian
• Public Historian

• Religion in American History
• Rogue Classicism
• Rustbelt Intellectual

• Siris
• Steamboats are ruining everything
• Strange Maps

• Talking Points Memo
• Tenured Radical
• Trench Fever
• Tropian

• U.S. Intellectual History

• Varieties of Unreligious Experience

• Walking the Berkshires
• Westminster Wisdom
• Whitman's Brooklyn
• wood s lot

• Zoom
• zunguzungu

Thanks to Ralph, and happy reading, everyone!