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Soyica Diggs Colbert Writes the History of Icons Through Their Friendships
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Soyica Diggs Colbert Writes the History of Icons Through Their Friendships

Episode 119 of the Drafting the Past podcast with the author of Freedom's Gate

By Kate Carpenter
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Mining the Past for New Material
Book Reviews

Mining the Past for New Material

A new book from a prolific popular historian takes readers to the gold camps of California, but not much farther

By Megan Kate Nelson
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Q & A with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain
Craft Essays

Q & A with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain

“What I started to realize is that, if I'm granted the space to actually write the things that I want to write, then I need to start thinking of myself as a writer, as someone who prioritizes writing over other things, someone who feels like I can take risks in my writing.”

By Kate Carpenter
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Q & A with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain

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Soyica Diggs Colbert Writes the History of Icons Through Their Friendships

Soyica Diggs Colbert Writes the History of Icons Through Their Friendships

By Kate Carpenter

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Soyica Diggs Colbert Writes the History of Icons Through Their Friendships

Soyica Diggs Colbert Writes the History of Icons Through Their Friendships

Episode 119 of the Drafting the Past podcast with the author of Freedom's Gate

By Kate Carpenter
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Getting Through Getting Stuck

Getting Through Getting Stuck

Struggling to write that history project? One of these ideas might help

By Megan Kate Nelson
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Mining the Past for New Material

Mining the Past for New Material

A new book from a prolific popular historian takes readers to the gold camps of California, but not much farther

By Megan Kate Nelson
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Shane White Is An Avowed Completist

Shane White Is An Avowed Completist

Episode 118 of the Drafting the Past podcast

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Q & A with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain

Q & A with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain

“What I started to realize is that, if I'm granted the space to actually write the things that I want to write, then I need to start thinking of myself as a writer, as someone who prioritizes writing over other things, someone who feels like I can take risks in my writing.”

By Kate Carpenter
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Living, Laughing, Buying, and Voting

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Two new books take on the history of American evangelical women’s cultural and political power

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Waking Up From a Carolingian Dream

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A new history of Charlemagne’s empire dethrones the usual narrative of its rise and fall

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Katherine Grandjean Lands Every Word Like a Tiny Punch

Katherine Grandjean Lands Every Word Like a Tiny Punch

Episode 117 of the Drafting the Past podcast

By Kate Carpenter
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Wait, there's a book festival just for history?

Wait, there's a book festival just for history?

Kate reports from the tenth annual History Book Festival

By Kate Carpenter
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Thomas Andrews Revels in Revision

Thomas Andrews Revels in Revision

In episode 116 of the Drafting the Past podcast, Kate talks with Bancroft Award-winning historian Thomas Andrews about his new book, The Great Horse Flu

By Kate Carpenter
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