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| Title | Author | Subscribers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 |  | The Martyr Made Substack | Darryl Cooper | |
| #2 |  | Chartbook | Adam Tooze, Morgan Alexander | |
| #3 |  | Gray Mirror | Curtis Yarvin, Werner K. Zagrebbi | |
| #4 |  | The American Peasant | Christopher Schwarz, Megan Fitzpatrick, Kale Vogt, Kara Gebhart Uhl | |
| #5 |  | Culture Critic | The Culturist, Joe Lonsdale, Niall Ferguson, Evan Amato | |
| #6 |  | Footnotes by Jemar Tisby | Jemar Tisby, PhD | |
| #7 |  | Niall Ferguson's Time Machine | Niall Ferguson, Azeem Azhar, Chris Miller, Nick Kumleben | |
| #8 |  | Robertas Petrauskas | Robertas Petrauskas | |
| #9 |  | My Life in the Past | Lucy Worsley, Dan Jones, Nathen Amin | |
| #10 |  | Brown History | Brown History | |
| #11 |  | The Conundrum Cluster | Conundrum Cluster | |
| #12 |  | Clarity with Michael Oren | Michael Oren, Daniel Pomerantz, Aviva Klompas | |
| #13 |  | History, Etc | Dan Jones, Farrah @Substack, Helen Carr, Lucy Worsley | |
| #14 |  | Sweary History with James Fell | James Fell | |
| #15 |  | kamilkazani | kamilkazani | |
| #16 |  | Letters of Note | Shaun Usher | |
| #17 |  | Noted | Jillian Hess, Sabrina Y. Smith | |
| #18 |  | PREVAIL by Greg Olear | Greg Olear, Zarina Zabrisky, ClearingTheFog | |
| #19 |  | Ancient Origins UNLEASHED | Ancient Origins UNLEASHED, Dr Ioannis Syrigos, Ancient Origins Editor, Mirka Rossi | |
| #20 |  | Michael Hoffman's Revelation of the Method | Michael Hoffman | |
| #21 |  | Kirby Sommers | Kirby Sommers | |
| #22 |  | Londonist: Time Machine | Londonist, Matt Brown, Lydia Manch | |
| #23 |  | The Great Gender Divergence | Alice Evans | |
| #24 |  | History Can't Hide from Kahlil Greene | Kahlil Greene | |
| #25 |  | ZEITGEIST | Katja Hoyer | |
| #26 |  | Aymenn’s Monstrous Publications | Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi | |
| #27 |  | Let’s Not Date | Brooke Teegarden | |
| #28 |  | The Abrahamic Critique and Digest | Hussein Aboubakr Mansour | |
| #29 |  | A History of Mankind | David Roman | |
| #30 |  | Civil War Memory | Kevin M. Levin | |
| #31 |  | REAL Indigenous Report | Hymie Rubenstein | |
| #32 |  | The Roots of Progress | Jason Crawford, Heike Larson | |
| #33 |  | History of the Present | Timothy Garton Ash | |
| #34 |  | World War II Today | Martin Cherrett, William Cherrett | |
| #35 |  | PastPresentFuture | Dan Gardner, Justin Ling | |
| #36 |  | Pope Head Post | Pope Head | |
| #37 |  | 17.21 WOMEN | 17.21 WOMEN | |
| #38 |  | Retro | Seth Abramson | |
| #39 |  | The Reversion | Anthony of Westgate, Joe Allen | |
| #40 |  | Non-Boring History | Annette Laing | |
| #41 |  | Skipped History | Ben Tumin | |
| #42 |  | Wade Burleson at Istoria | Wade Burleson | |
| #43 |  | Julius Ruechel | Julius Ruechel | |
| #44 |  | Ælfgif-who? | Dr Florence H R Scott | |
| #45 |  | Cosmographia | M. E. Rothwell | |
| #46 |  | Banned Histories of Race in America | Samuel James | |
| #47 |  | Daniele’s Substack | Daniele Bolelli | |
| #48 |  | Historical Snapshots | Historical Snapshots, Oren Kessler | |
| #49 |  | Great Power | Molly McKew, John Sipher | |
| #50 |  | The Memory Hole | TMH | |
| #51 |  | Miami History | Casey Piket | |
| #52 |  | Michael’s Substack | Michael Gaddy | |
| #53 |  | The Fiamengo File | Janice Fiamengo | |
| #54 |  | Marginalia with Beth Allison Barr | Beth Allison Barr | |
| #55 |  | HOGELAND'S BAD HISTORY | William Hogeland | |
| #56 |  | Origins of Our Time | Tim Barker, Andrew | |
| #57 |  | Travels of Samwise | Sam Dalrymple, Shah Umair, Harleen Singh | |
| #58 |  | PINK THREADS by Elisabeth Griffith | PINK THREADS | |
| #59 |  | The Tactical Notebook | Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson | |
| #60 |  | Carolina Digital Daily | Robert Salvo, Peter Williams | |
| #61 |  | Historic Mysteries | Ancient Origins UNLEASHED, Mirka Rossi, Historic Mysteries | |
| #62 |  | Revista de Historia | Revista de Historia | |
| #63 |  | Burning Archive | Jeff Rich, Samantha Rose Hill | |
| #64 |  | Kamiya Unlimited | Gary Kamiya | |
| #65 |  | Phoenician Hunter | Phoenician Hunter | |
| #66 |  | Civic Renaissance with Alexandra Hudson | Alexandra Hudson | |
| #67 |  | Dr. Krannawitter's Substack | Thomas L. Krannawitter, Ph.D. | |
| #68 |  | Coulombe's Company | Charles A. Coulombe | |
| #69 |  | The Toronto Time Traveller | Adam Bunch | |
| #70 |  | Dirtbags Through the Ages | Allison Epstein | |
| #71 |  | Stirling Archaeology | Stirling Archaeology | |
| #72 |  | Study Marry Kill | Alexis Coe | |
| #73 |  | Historia ecclesiastica: e-history with a Christian dye | Michael A.G. Azad Haykin | |
| #74 |  | INVICTUS | Evan Amato, James | |
| #75 |  | American Times with Tim Barnicle | Tim Barnicle | |
| #76 |  | Jeff Propulsion | Jeff Pearce | |
| #77 |  | ColonelRETJohn | ColonelRETJohn Mills | |
| #78 |  | Eight by Seven | Timothy Burke | |
| #79 |  | Our Long Walk | Johan Fourie | |
| #80 |  | Trespasses of the Holy | Greg Jarrell | |
| #81 |  | Doomsday Machines | Alex Wellerstein, Billy Middleton | |
| #82 |  | Anton’s Substack | Anton Chaitkin, Magdalena Therrien | |
| #83 |  | Escriba Cafe | Christian Gurtner | |
| #84 |  | Cory Hughes Bloody History: WWII | Cory Hughes | |
| #85 |  | The H Files by Helen Castor | Helen Castor | |
| #86 |  | Getting Spooked | Tanner F. Boyle, Bradley W Plaisier, Reid, Emily | |
| #87 |  | Beyond the Music | Matt Austerklein, Sophia Lambton | |
| #88 |  | History Homos | History Homos, Frank Wright, Johnny Vedmore, Cory Hughes, William F England, Monica Perez, CANTGETFOOLEDAGAIN! | |
| #89 |  | William F. Spivey's History Channel | William Spivey | |
| #90 |  | Behind the Gospels | John Nelson | |
| #91 |  | Waleed’s Substack | Waleed Shahid, Francesca Fiorentini | |
| #92 |  | History Club | Jason Steinhauer | |
| #93 |  | Asha’s Substack | Asha Logos | |
| #94 |  | Ancient Beat | James Fleischmann | |
| #95 |  | Dearest | Monica McLaughlin | |
| #96 |  | Karl’s Substack | Karl | |
| #97 |  | Dylan Saccoccio's Canon | Dylan Saccoccio, Chance Garton, Crrow777 | |
| #98 |  | Copious Flowers | Jesse Hake | |
| #99 |  | Long Live the ABB: Conversation from the Crossroads | Long Live the ABB | |
| #100 |  | Dispatches from Reality | Scipio Eruditus, Johnny Vedmore | |
| #101 |  | Rightlandia | Seth Cotlar | |
| #102 |  | What's Gone Right | Chris Myers Asch | |
| #103 |  | Canadian Branchline | Ian Wilson | |
| #104 |  | Historians At The Movies | Jason Herbert | |
| #105 |  | Harry Freedman's Jewish Histories | Harry Freedman | |
| #106 |  | The Trenchant Edges Newsletter | Stephen from Trenchant Edges | |
| #107 |  | Run It Back | Victor Luckerson | |
| #108 |  | Unseen St. Louis | Jackie Dana | |
| #109 |  | (Un)Hidden: Disability Histories and Our World | Alex Green | |
| #110 |  | Nemets | Peter Nimitz | |
| #111 |  | KC Yesterday Scavenger Hunt | KC Yesterday | |
| #112 |  | Ancient/Now | Kara Cooney, Amber Myers Wells, Jordan Galczynski, Nadia Ben-Marzouk | |
| #113 |  | Ideas and Actions | Brad Miller | |
| #114 |  | The Manchester History Club | Dean Kirby | |
| #115 |  | Psychedelic Press | Psychedelic Press, Natalie Storey, Andy Roberts, Robert Dickins, Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, Elliot Tremlett, Nikki Wyrd | |
| #116 |  | Colleen Mondor: Probable Cause | Colleen Mondor | |
| #117 |  | Dave’s Car ID Service | Dave Burge | |
| #118 |  | Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between | Kathryn Smith | |
| #119 |  | Confessions of a Living Legend | Prince Stash | |
| #120 |  | Tales of Forgotten Scottish History | Bagtown Clans | |
| #121 |  | CTExplored/Inbox | Kathy Hermes/CTExplored, Magdalena Pawlowski, Elizabeth Harris | |
| #122 |  | Oliver’s Substack | William Telford | |
| #123 |  | weird medieval guys | weird medieval guys, Aran James | |
| #124 |  | Musings & Amusings of a B-List Writer | Robert S. McElvaine | |
| #125 |  | Deep Los Angeles History Videos | Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles, Richard Schave, Larry Paul | |
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| #127 |  | Rossi Reports | Melissa Rossi | |
| #128 |  | Aspects’s Substack | Aspects of History | |
| #129 |  | Querido Boricua | Steven Casanova | |
| #130 |  | \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 | |
| #131 |  | All Old Strange Things | Francis Young | |
| #132 |  | Roman Bystrianyk | Roman Bystrianyk | |
| #133 |  | The Bottomfeeders Banquet | Dusty Le Roux | |
| #134 |  | It Can Always Get Worse | Kyle Orton | |
| #135 |  | In History by Helen Carr | Helen Carr | |
| #136 |  | Beauty is truth | James Lucas | |
| #137 |  | After empire: Reconfiguring Eastern Europe | Franziska Davies | |
| #138 |  | Matters Twomey | Dawn Eden Goldstein | |
| #139 |  | Some Words about Italian Swordplay | David B | |
| #140 |  | The Crossroads Gazette | Nicole Miras | |
| #141 |  | Patriots In Progress Newsletter | Patriots In Progress | |
| #142 |  | Dyke Domesticity | Julia Golda Harris, Clover | |
| #143 |  | The Bazaar of War | BCD | |
| #144 |  | Res Obscura | Benjamin Breen | |
| #145 |  | Oliver Bateman Does the Work | Oliver Bateman Does the Work, Aubrey Sitterson | |
| #146 |  | DUST AND STARS: Today in Jewish History | Steven Drucker, Suri Drucker | |
| #147 |  | Talking to America | Jack Kelly | |
| #148 |  | Johan Romin | Johan Romin | |
| #149 |  | This Day In History | This Day In History | |
| #150 |  | Chronicle Makers | Denyse Allen | |
| #151 |  | Horus | Horus | |
| #152 |  | The Colour of Time with Marina Amaral | Marina Amaral | |
| #153 |  | F*cking Capitalism | Hannah Forsyth | |
| #154 |  | The Ariadne Archive | Freya Rohn | |
| #155 |  | Between Two Rivers | Jeff Morrison | |
| #156 |  | The War Room | Dr Robert Lyman MBE | |
| #157 |  | Dianne Durante Writer's Substack | Dianne L. Durante | |
| #158 |  | The New Books Network Newsletter | New Books Network, Caleb Zakarin, Leo Bader, Jessie Cohen | |
| #159 |  | David Irving | Irving Books | David Irving | |
| #160 |  | Before We Were White | Brian Halpin | |
| #161 |  | Creation History | Kenneth Griffith | |
| #162 |  | The Underground Map | ScottH | |
| #163 |  | Yesterday Genealogy Newsletter! | Jeannette Austin | |
| #164 |  | Medieval Musings | Holly A Brown, Vicky Randle (V. J. Randle) | |
| #165 |  | Magical Egypt's Substack | Magical Egypt, Thomas Joseph Brown, Ingo Swann | |
| #166 |  | Thank You, Truckers! | Donna Laframboise | |
| #167 |  | Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast | Bill Buppert | |
| #168 |  | The Academic Bubble | Dion Georgiou | |
| #169 |  | British History | Philippa Brewell | |
| #170 |  | Tom Griffin on intelligence history | Tom Griffin | |
| #171 |  | Only United in Name | Richard Kreitner | |
| #172 |  | Wild Words | Morgan Sjogren | |
| #173 |  | ThoughtCrime: Jones From PartsUnknown Banned From Twitter | Torrance Stephens | |
| #174 |  | The Exciting Nightmare: a Series of Essays on Modern Times | Baron Wormser | |
| #175 |  | Florilegium | George Grant | |
| #176 |  | Permanent Record | Doug Pringle | |
| #177 |  | Walt's World | Guy Walters | |
| #178 |  | Modernist Estates | Modernist Estates—Stefi Orazi | |
| #179 |  | Forgotten Footprints | Prateek Dasgupta, Jon Hunner | |
| #180 |  | CellyBlue - I Do Know This! | CellyBlue - I Do Know This! | |
| #181 |  | South Carolina History Newsletter | Kate Fowler | |
| #182 |  | Islandia | Islandia, Maria Llorens, David Rolland, Ashira Morris, Jason Katz, Eric King, Alex Gurtis, Rory Sharp, E. Seneca, Jasmine Respess, Joey Hedger | |
| #183 |  | Along The Seam | Rachael Cerrotti, Lois Lowry, Micaela Blei | |
| #184 |  | Hidden Herstories | Maya Rodale | |
| #185 |  | Hidden In Open Sight with Calvin Payne | Calvin Payne | |
| #186 |  | Made by History | Matt Lewis | |
| #187 |  | Approaching Jerusalem | Chandler Collins | |
| #188 |  | Zulu Musings | Ian Knight | |
| #189 |  | Kreuzberged: Berlin Companion | BerlinCompanion: Kreuzberged | |
| #190 |  | MAGA = NAZI | Oliver Markus Malloy, Bad Choices, Fascism.link, Kamala rocks!, Political Humor | |
| #191 |  | Maintaining the Realm | Aaron Pattee | |
| #192 |  | Coeling Chronicler | Aurochs | |
| #193 |  | Slender Threads / Global Citizens / Public History | Jim Buie | |
| #194 |  | 9/11 Revisionist | 9/11 Revisionist | |
| #195 |  | The BITTEN Files | Kris Newby | |
| #196 |  | New York Narratives | Asad Dandia | |
| #197 |  | Who made our minds? | Paul Ham | |
| #198 |  | Yo, Miss! | Sari Beth Rosenberg | |
| #199 |  | Photo of the Day | Brenda Elthon | |
| #200 |  | 15th Century Feminist | 15thCenturyFeminist, John Lovie, Jeremy Mohler, Alex Lewis | |
| #201 |  | The Occidental Tourist | Amy Hunt | |
| #202 |  | Shire Herald | Shire Herald | |
| #203 |  | Canadian History Ehx | Canadian History Ehx | |
| #204 |  | From Poverty to Progress | Michael Magoon | |
| #205 |  | Myt och mystik | Jonas Nilsson, Magnus Söderman | |
| #206 |  | Eagle Society | Iron Light, Michael P. Davidson | |
| #207 |  | The Herbalist's Diary | Sarah Donoghue, Lisa Brunette | |
| #208 |  | Bird History | Robert Francis | |
| #209 |  | People's History in Texas Substack | People's History in Texas | |
| #210 |  | The Art of Arms | Joshua Wiest, Stephen Fratus | |
| #211 |  | UnMonumental | Matt Chun, James Tylor | |
| #212 |  | Unruly Figures | Valorie Castellanos Clark | |
| #213 |  | The Operational Art of War | Operational Art of War | |
| #214 |  | All Crooks at Tulsa: An Investigation | Russell Cobb | |
| #215 |  | Ava’s Substack | Ava Wolfe | |
| #216 |  | Dedicated to the Proposition that All Men are Created Equal | Steven Dundas | |
| #217 |  | THE BRIEF | Maya Plentz | |
| #218 |  | Polemology Positions | Matt Osborne | |
| #219 |  | Kiwiwriter47’s Substack | Kiwiwriter47 | |
| #220 |  | Peking Hotel | 何流｜Liu He | |
| #221 |  | The Red Ensign | The Black Horse, Bartholomew Reed, SkepticalWaves | |
| #222 |  | Orígenes - Historia y Arqueología | Orígenes | |
| #223 |  | Vulgar History A La Carte | Ann Foster | |
| #224 |  | Battlefield Legacies | Antoni Pisani, Arve R. Pisani - Publishing | |
| #225 |  | The History Impossible Newsletter | Alexander von Sternberg | |
| #226 |  | Hidden Cumbrian Histories | Paul Eastham | |
| #227 |  | Of American Origin | John Lomax III | |
| #228 |  | When Once Destroyed | Sid Shroyer | |
| #229 |  | The Digital Scrolls | Eating To Ascend | |
| #230 |  | Red Scare | Nick Estes | |
| #231 |  | WestShore Memories | Sue Harper | |
| #232 |  | The 90s: From Devine's Debacle to the Dawn of the Sask Party | Tammy Robert | |
| #233 |  | Albert Thompson's History Wars | Albert Russell Thompson | |
| #234 |  | Looking Through the Past | George Dillard | |
| #235 |  | The Kimmiverse | Kimberly Renee, El-no Musty | |
| #236 |  | Bimbo University: Extra Credit \ud83c\udf80 | Bimbo University \ud83c\udf80 | |
| #237 |  | Intersection: Everything That Moves | Micheline Maynard | |
| #238 |  | 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 | |
| #239 |  | Hidden Histories | Jeffrey S. Kaye | |
| #240 |  | Beyond the Waste Land | Kevin Batcho | |
| #241 |  | Game & Word | Jay Rooney | |
| #242 |  | Nothing New Under the Sun | Steward Beckham | |
| #243 |  | A Civil Rights Power Couple | Chandra Hardy | |
| #244 |  | Lists of Note | Shaun Usher | |
| #245 |  | Y'allogy | Derrick Jeter | |
| #246 |  | History of a Calamity | Michael Goldfarb | |
| #247 |  | Wolf Hall Weekend | Wolf Hall Weekend | |
| #248 |  | Biblical Nomad | Marc Turnage | |
| #249 |  | Twilight of Greed | Twilight of Greed | |
| #250 |  | The Friday Murder Club | Sophie Michell |
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