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| Title | Author | Subscribers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 |  | Chartbook | Adam Tooze, Morgan Alexander | |
| #2 |  | Culture Critic | The Culturist, Joe Lonsdale, Niall Ferguson, Evan Amato | |
| #3 |  | Ancient Origins UNLEASHED | Ancient Origins UNLEASHED, Dr Ioannis Syrigos, Ancient Origins Editor, Mirka Rossi | |
| #4 |  | Historic Mysteries | Ancient Origins UNLEASHED, Mirka Rossi, Historic Mysteries | |
| #5 |  | The Martyr Made Substack | Darryl Cooper | |
| #6 |  | Letters of Note | Shaun Usher | |
| #7 |  | Brown History | Brown History | |
| #8 |  | Footnotes by Jemar Tisby | Jemar Tisby, PhD | |
| #9 |  | My Life in the Past | Lucy Worsley, Dan Jones, Nathen Amin | |
| #10 |  | Gray Mirror | Curtis Yarvin, Werner K. Zagrebbi | |
| #11 |  | Niall Ferguson's Time Machine | Niall Ferguson, Azeem Azhar, Chris Miller, Nick Kumleben | |
| #12 |  | Civic Renaissance with Alexandra Hudson | Alexandra Hudson | |
| #13 |  | PREVAIL by Greg Olear | Greg Olear, Zarina Zabrisky, ClearingTheFog | |
| #14 |  | Historians At The Movies | Jason Herbert | |
| #15 |  | The Roots of Progress | Jason Crawford, Heike Larson | |
| #16 |  | The American Peasant | Christopher Schwarz, Megan Fitzpatrick, Kale Vogt, Kara Gebhart Uhl | |
| #17 |  | Noted | Jillian Hess, Sabrina Y. Smith | |
| #18 |  | Historical Snapshots | Historical Snapshots | |
| #19 |  | Clarity with Michael Oren | Michael Oren, Daniel Pomerantz, Aviva Klompas | |
| #20 |  | Londonist: Time Machine | Londonist, Matt Brown, Lydia Manch | |
| #21 |  | History, Etc | Dan Jones, Farrah @Substack, Helen Carr, Lucy Worsley | |
| #22 |  | History Can't Hide from Kahlil Greene | Kahlil Greene | |
| #23 |  | History of the Present | Timothy Garton Ash | |
| #24 |  | Waleed’s Substack | Waleed Shahid, Francesca Fiorentini | |
| #25 |  | Look Behind You! | Dan Carlin | |
| #26 |  | Marginalia with Beth Allison Barr | Beth Allison Barr | |
| #27 |  | Ælfgif-who? | Dr Florence H R Scott | |
| #28 |  | PastPresentFuture | Dan Gardner, Justin Ling | |
| #29 |  | Civil War Memory | Kevin M. Levin | |
| #30 |  | A History of Mankind | David Roman | |
| #31 |  | Orígenes - Historia y Arqueología | Orígenes | |
| #32 |  | Robertas Petrauskas | Robertas Petrauskas | |
| #33 |  | The Great Gender Divergence | Alice Evans | |
| #34 |  | Daniele’s Substack | Daniele Bolelli | |
| #35 |  | The Ancient Near East Today | Ancient Near East Today | |
| #36 |  | kamilkazani | kamilkazani | |
| #37 |  | Skipped History | Ben Tumin | |
| #38 |  | Cosmographia | M. E. Rothwell | |
| #39 |  | Non-Boring History | Annette Laing | |
| #40 |  | The Conundrum Cluster | Conundrum Cluster | |
| #41 |  | Тамара Эйдельман | Tamara Eidelman | |
| #42 |  | Julius Ruechel | Julius Ruechel | |
| #43 |  | INVICTUS | Evan Amato, James | |
| #44 |  | The Fiamengo File | Janice Fiamengo | |
| #45 |  | The New Books Network Newsletter | New Books Network, Caleb Zakarin, Leo Bader, Jessie Cohen | |
| #46 |  | ZEITGEIST | Katja Hoyer | |
| #47 |  | African History Extra | isaac Samuel | |
| #48 |  | Travels of Samwise | Sam Dalrymple, Shah Umair, Harleen Singh | |
| #49 |  | World War II Today | Martin Cherrett, William Cherrett | |
| #50 |  | Zeitsprung | Leo Dihlmann | |
| #51 |  | Miami History | Casey Piket | |
| #52 |  | The Tactical Notebook | Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson | |
| #53 |  | Let’s Not Date | Brooke Teegarden | |
| #54 |  | Proud to be an American, by Tara Ross | Tara Ross | |
| #55 |  | HOGELAND'S BAD HISTORY | William Hogeland | |
| #56 |  | The Memory Hole | TMH | |
| #57 |  | A Chronicle of Dragons & Cats | Nathen Amin | |
| #58 |  | Dead Language Society | Colin Gorrie | |
| #59 |  | American Times with Tim Barnicle | Tim Barnicle | |
| #60 |  | 9/11 Revisionist | 9/11 Revisionist | |
| #61 |  | cosi’s odyssey | cosi’s odyssey | |
| #62 |  | Medieval Musings | Holly A Brown, Vicky Randle (V. J. Randle) | |
| #63 |  | Behind the Gospels | John Nelson | |
| #64 |  | Roman Bystrianyk | Roman Bystrianyk | |
| #65 |  | Our Long Walk | Johan Fourie | |
| #66 |  | White Rabbits Newsletter | \ud835\udd82\ud835\udd8d\ud835\udd8e\ud835\udd99\ud835\udd8a \ud835\udd7d\ud835\udd86\ud835\udd87\ud835\udd87\ud835\udd8e\ud835\udd99 | |
| #67 |  | Michael Hoffman's Revelation of the Method | Michael Hoffman | |
| #68 |  | Kirby Sommers | Kirby Sommers | |
| #69 |  | Stone Club | Stone Club | |
| #70 |  | Altezza Reale by Marina Minelli | Marina Minelli | |
| #71 |  | Long Live the ABB: Conversation from the Crossroads | Long Live the ABB | |
| #72 |  | Beauty is truth | James Lucas | |
| #73 |  | Bimbo University: Extra Credit \ud83c\udf80 | Bimbo University \ud83c\udf80 | |
| #74 |  | Tiboru mesél | Tiboru | |
| #75 |  | Devaneios da Let | Letícia Tórgo | |
| #76 |  | THE BRIEF | Maya Plentz | |
| #77 |  | Nemets | Peter Nimitz | |
| #78 |  | Lists of Note | Shaun Usher | |
| #79 |  | History Club | Jason Steinhauer | |
| #80 |  | Mythology: Gods and Monsters | Mythology: Gods and Monsters | |
| #81 |  | The Abrahamic Critique and Digest | Hussein Aboubakr Mansour | |
| #82 |  | REAL Indigenous Report | Hymie Rubenstein | |
| #83 |  | ColonelRETJohn | ColonelRETJohn Mills | |
| #84 |  | Stirling Archaeology | Stirling Archaeology | |
| #85 |  | Doomsday Machines | Alex Wellerstein, Billy Middleton | |
| #86 |  | Weird Darkness | Darren Marlar | |
| #87 |  | Mapas Milhaud | Miguel García Álvarez | |
| #88 |  | Land of the Free | Sara Celi | |
| #89 |  | The Toronto Time Traveller | Adam Bunch | |
| #90 |  | The Military Reading Room - History, Strategy, and Insight | David Gran, Phil Gentile | |
| #91 |  | Ancient Beat | James Fleischmann | |
| #92 |  | Study Marry Kill | Alexis Coe | |
| #93 |  | Pope Head Post | Pope Head | |
| #94 |  | Spycraft 101 | Justin Black | |
| #95 |  | Pasts Imperfect | Sarah E. Bond, Colin McCaffrey, Tori Lee, Alex Magnolia, Stephanie Wong, Monica H. Green, Joel Christensen, Nandini Pandey, Del A. Maticic, Andrew Mark Henry, Aimee Hinds Scott, Lauren Kim, Javal Coleman, Jordan D. Rosenblum, Casey Dué, Amy Pistone, Tim Whitmarsh, Jordyn Imhoff, Kaitlin Karmen, Rita Lucarelli, Philip Thibodeau, Anne Chen, Melissa Harl Sellew, Roberta Mazza, Thomas M. Bolin, Yoandy Cabrera Ortega, Stephen 'Chapps' Chappell, Lye, Suzanne, Elizabeth Castelli, Anthony J. Baragona, Arum Park, Lee L. Brice, Robin Whelan, Shaily Shashikant Patel, Lisa Brody, Jen Baird, Adnan Almohamad, Anna Arays, Ariadne Marketou, Katherine Blouin, Joseph Howley, Evan McDuff, Irene Soto Marín, Alexandra Rodler-Rørbo, Ayelet Haimson Lushkov, Steve Friesen | |
| #96 |  | e-pistulae | Tate | |
| #97 |  | Histories | Andrew Chapman, Paul Lenz | |
| #98 |  | British History | Philippa Brewell | |
| #99 |  | ThoughtCrime: Jones From PartsUnknown Banned From Twitter | Torrance Stephens | |
| #100 |  | DUST AND STARS: Today in Jewish History | Steven Drucker, Suri Drucker | |
| #101 |  | Digging Up The Past | Petros Koutoupis | |
| #102 |  | Ancient/Now | Kara Cooney, Amber Myers Wells, Jordan Galczynski, Nadia Ben-Marzouk | |
| #103 |  | William F. Spivey's History Channel | William Spivey | |
| #104 |  | Aymenn’s Monstrous Publications | Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi | |
| #105 |  | A User's Guide to History | H. W. Brands | |
| #106 |  | Living Landmarks of Chicago | Theresa Goodrich | |
| #107 |  | Queer Archive Fever | Queer Archivist | |
| #108 |  | The Crossroads Gazette | Nicole Miras | |
| #109 |  | Eight by Seven | Timothy Burke | |
| #110 |  | The H Files by Helen Castor | Helen Castor | |
| #111 |  | The Reversion | Anthony of Westgate, Joe Allen | |
| #112 |  | Dispatches from Reality | Scipio Eruditus, Johnny Vedmore | |
| #113 |  | Asha’s Substack | Asha Logos | |
| #114 |  | Oliver Bateman Does the Work | Oliver Bateman Does the Work, Aubrey Sitterson | |
| #115 |  | Social Science Files | Michael G. Heller, MICHAEL G. HELLER | |
| #116 |  | The Wild West Newsletter | Wild West Josh | |
| #117 |  | Streets of Washington | John DeFerrari | |
| #118 |  | The Anti-Empire Project | The Anti Empire Project, Joe Emersberger | |
| #119 |  | PINK THREADS by Elisabeth Griffith | PINK THREADS | |
| #120 |  | Steve's Newsletter | Steve Bateman | |
| #121 |  | Getting Spooked | Tanner F. Boyle, Bradley W Plaisier, Reid, Emily | |
| #122 |  | The Bazaar of War | BCD | |
| #123 |  | Phoenician Hunter | Phoenician Hunter | |
| #124 |  | All Things History | HistFest, Isabel Wilson, Rebecca Rideal, Nathen Amin | |
| #125 |  | Burning Archive | Jeff Rich, Samantha Rose Hill | |
| #126 |  | Tales of Forgotten Scottish History | Bagtown Clans | |
| #127 |  | Dr. Krannawitter's Substack | Thomas L. Krannawitter, Ph.D. | |
| #128 |  | Dear Bread | Amy Halloran, Ellie Markovitch | |
| #129 |  | Knotty News | The Eurasian Knot | |
| #130 |  | Karl’s Substack | Karl | |
| #131 |  | Patriots In Progress Newsletter | Patriots In Progress | |
| #132 |  | French Reflections | David A. Bell | |
| #133 |  | Kreuzberged: Berlin Companion | BerlinCompanion: Kreuzberged | |
| #134 |  | È la Storia bellezza | Fabio Andriola | |
| #135 |  | Unseen St. Louis | Jackie Dana | |
| #136 |  | The War Room | Dr Robert Lyman MBE | |
| #137 |  | Hear Me Roar - Jus Meum Tuebor | Courageous Lion | |
| #138 |  | Forgotten Footprints | Prateek Dasgupta, Jon Hunner | |
| #139 |  | Kiwiwriter47’s Substack | Kiwiwriter47 | |
| #140 |  | CellyBlue - I Do Know This! | CellyBlue - I Do Know This! | |
| #141 |  | Canadian Branchline | Ian Wilson | |
| #142 |  | Poland At War Tours | Damien Stewart | |
| #143 |  | 15th Century Feminist | 15thCenturyFeminist, John Lovie, Jeremy Mohler, Alex Lewis | |
| #144 |  | Canadian History Ehx | Canadian History Ehx | |
| #145 |  | Vulgar History A La Carte | Ann Foster | |
| #146 |  | Qtimes’s Substack | Qtimes | |
| #147 |  | From Poverty to Progress | Michael Magoon | |
| #148 |  | Yo, Miss! | Sari Beth Rosenberg | |
| #149 |  | Ideas and Actions | Brad Miller | |
| #150 |  | The Cockade Column | Heather Sheen | |
| #151 |  | CTExplored/Inbox | Kathy Hermes/CTExplored, Magdalena Pawlowski, Elizabeth Harris | |
| #152 |  | Wade Burleson at Istoria | Wade Burleson | |
| #153 |  | Magical Egypt's Substack | Magical Egypt, Thomas Joseph Brown, Ingo Swann | |
| #154 |  | Han Parker | Han Parker | |
| #155 |  | Dyke Domesticity | Julia Golda Harris, Clover | |
| #156 |  | A Civil Rights Power Couple | Chandra Hardy | |
| #157 |  | Fundația’s Substack | Fundația Europeană Titulescu | |
| #158 |  | Spionage | Alexander Rose | |
| #159 |  | \ud835\udd6f\ud835\udd94\ud835\udd9c\ud835\udd93 \ud835\udd7f\ud835\udd8d\ud835\udd8a \ud835\udd7d\ud835\udd86\ud835\udd87\ud835\udd87\ud835\udd8e\ud835\udd99 \ud835\udd73\ud835\udd94\ud835\udd91\ud835\udd8a | \ud835\udd82\ud835\udd8d\ud835\udd8e\ud835\udd99\ud835\udd8a \ud835\udd7d\ud835\udd86\ud835\udd87\ud835\udd87\ud835\udd8e\ud835\udd99 | |
| #160 |  | Genealogy Matters | Robin Stewart | |
| #161 |  | Unruly Figures | Valorie Castellanos Clark | |
| #162 |  | Historia ecclesiastica: e-history with a Christian dye | Michael A.G. Azad Haykin | |
| #163 |  | The Neo-Ciceronian Times | Theophilus Chilton | |
| #164 |  | History Does You | Secretary of Defense Rock, Kiran Pfitzner, Kistiakowsky's Ghost | |
| #165 |  | Projectkin Community Forum | Barbara at Projectkin, Jane Hutcheon, Barbara Tien, Kathy Stone, Emma - Journeys into Genealogy, Lori Olson White, Mission: Genealogy, DearMYRTLE, Janet Barrie | |
| #166 |  | Jeff Propulsion | Jeff Pearce | |
| #167 |  | The Herbalist's Diary | Sarah Donoghue, Lisa Brunette | |
| #168 |  | Banned Histories of Race in America | Samuel James | |
| #169 |  | Kamiya Unlimited | Gary Kamiya | |
| #170 |  | The Kimmiverse | Kimberly Renee, El-no Musty | |
| #171 |  | The Broken Compass | Mathew Lyons | |
| #172 |  | Confessions of a Living Legend | Prince Stash | |
| #173 |  | Revista de Historia | Revista de Historia | |
| #174 |  | Intersection: Everything That Moves | Micheline Maynard | |
| #175 |  | Carolina Digital Daily | Robert Salvo, Peter Williams | |
| #176 |  | Sweary History with James Fell | James Fell | |
| #177 |  | Beyond the Music | Matt Austerklein, Sophia Lambton | |
| #178 |  | Letters to the Valley County Electorate | Tomi Grote | |
| #179 |  | After empire: Reconfiguring Eastern Europe | Franziska Davies | |
| #180 |  | Society of History Writers | Holly A Brown, Rachael Rowe, McKenzie Franklin, Amy Freeborn, Margot McMahon, Jeanine Kitchel, Mariella Hunt ☕️, Matt Brown, Sue Mann, Ellie Ireland, Shauna McIntyre | |
| #181 |  | The Observer | The Observer | |
| #182 |  | School of War Podcast | School of War | |
| #183 |  | Fire For Effect | B. A. Friedman | |
| #184 |  | Res Obscura | Benjamin Breen | |
| #185 |  | Aspects’s Substack | Aspects of History | |
| #186 |  | History of Women | Linda Caroll | |
| #187 |  | Crasto Newsletter | Micael Crasto | |
| #188 |  | SkiNewEngland.net | SkiNewEngland.net | |
| #189 |  | The Library of Alexandria Ultima | Alexander's Cartographer | |
| #190 |  | It Can Always Get Worse | Kyle Orton | |
| #191 |  | shieldmaidenpdx | shieldmaidenpdx | |
| #192 |  | The Manchester History Club | Dean Kirby | |
| #193 |  | Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast | Bill Buppert | |
| #194 |  | Tom Griffin on intelligence history | Tom Griffin | |
| #195 |  | The Underground Map | ScottH | |
| #196 |  | How-to History | How-to History, Joe Saunders, Anna Cusack, Jay Hancock, Jon Rosebank, Rachel Glaves, Rebecca Gadd, Alasdair McNeill, Alison Norton, Thomas Wood, Simon Fowler | |
| #197 |  | Hidden Histories | Jeffrey S. Kaye | |
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| #199 |  | Musings & Amusings of a B-List Writer | Robert S. McElvaine | |
| #200 |  | Jew Oughta Know | Jason @ Jew Oughta Know | |
| #201 |  | The Occidental Tourist | Amy Hunt | |
| #202 |  | All Things History | Sal | |
| #203 |  | Unevenly Combined Thoughts | Angus Bylsma | |
| #204 |  | Wild Words | Morgan Sjogren | |
| #205 |  | Looking Through the Past | George Dillard | |
| #206 |  | Making History Come Alive | Richard Bluttal | |
| #207 |  | All Old Strange Things | Francis Young | |
| #208 |  | Who made our minds? | Paul Ham | |
| #209 |  | Hidde Bouwmeester Nieuwsbrief | Hidde Bouwmeester | |
| #210 |  | 不如读书 | wuyagege | |
| #211 |  | Anton’s Substack | Anton Chaitkin, Magdalena Therrien | |
| #212 |  | Beyond the Waste Land | Kevin Batcho | |
| #213 |  | What's Gone Right | Chris Myers Asch | |
| #214 |  | Thank You, Truckers! | Donna Laframboise | |
| #215 |  | South Carolina History Newsletter | Kate Fowler | |
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| #217 |  | Alaska Stories | Michael R Dougherty | |
| #218 |  | Chronicle Makers | Denyse Allen | |
| #219 |  | Cerridwen's Cauldron | Dawn Nelson | |
| #220 |  | Made by History | Matt Lewis | |
| #221 |  | Harry Freedman's Jewish Histories | Harry Freedman | |
| #222 |  | AllThatHistory Weekly | AllThatHistory | |
| #223 |  | Coloradotopia | Aaron | |
| #224 |  | Cultural Christians in the Early Church | Nadya Williams | |
| #225 |  | C.J. Adrien | C.J. Adrien | |
| #226 |  | Morale de l’Histoire | Alexandre Zermati - \ud83d\udce9 Histoire | |
| #227 |  | Jon’s Substack | Jon Biddle | |
| #228 |  | Des nouvelles du Père Duchesne | Père Duchesne | |
| #229 |  | Psychedelic Press | Psychedelic Press, Natalie Storey, Andy Roberts, Robert Dickins, Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, Elliot Tremlett, Nikki Wyrd | |
| #230 |  | Municipal Dreams | Municipal Dreams | |
| #231 |  | Skillet Diaries | Migration Story | |
| #232 |  | Tales From the Underworld — Authentic True Crime | Tales From the Underworld, Timothy Reynolds, Kates Lara, Rachael Elizabeth, Mike Dickson, Kirsten Ford, Donna Patton, Sha Cabral | |
| #233 |  | SHAE THE HISTORIAN | Shae O. | |
| #234 |  | Liberal Illusions | Aristides Hatzis | |
| #235 |  | Thomas Kidd’s Substack | Thomas S. Kidd, Thomas Kidd | |
| #236 |  | In History by Helen Carr | Helen Carr | |
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| #238 |  | Geneafinder | Geneafinder | |
| #239 |  | Innovation History | Jason Voiovich | |
| #240 |  | The Street Seen | Mark Gorman | |
| #241 |  | Ava’s Substack | Ava Wolfe | |
| #242 |  | Hidden Cumbrian Histories | Paul Eastham | |
| #243 |  | weird medieval guys | weird medieval guys, Aran James | |
| #244 |  | Medieval Realms | Medieval Realms | |
| #245 |  | Before We Were White | Brian Halpin | |
| #246 |  | Wolf Hall Weekend | Wolf Hall Weekend | |
| #247 |  | Riding The Tiger | Chad Crowley | |
| #248 |  | Photo of the Day | Brenda Elthon | |
| #249 |  | The Swan Hotel: Then and Now’s Substack | The Swan Hotel: Then and Now | |
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