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

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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Eric Jay Dolin Never Wants to Be Bored
Podcast Episodes

Eric Jay Dolin Never Wants to Be Bored

In Episode 115 of the Drafting the Past podcast, Kate talks with the bestselling author about making a career as a popular historian.

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
—
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
—
Eric Jay Dolin Never Wants to Be Bored

Eric Jay Dolin Never Wants to Be Bored

In Episode 115 of the Drafting the Past podcast, Kate talks with the bestselling author about making a career as a popular historian.

By Kate Carpenter
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Catherine Grace Katz Can Just Feel It

Catherine Grace Katz Can Just Feel It

In episode 114 of the Drafting the Past podcast, the author of Shadow Before the Flame talks to Kate about her research and writing process.

By Kate Carpenter
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Tai Edwards and Charlee Huffman Let the Land Tell the Story

Tai Edwards and Charlee Huffman Let the Land Tell the Story

In episode 113 of the Drafting the Past podcast, Kate Carpenter interviews the authors and editors of a collective history.

By Kate Carpenter
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Jared Davidson Treats History as Passion and Practice

Jared Davidson Treats History as Passion and Practice

In episode 112 of the Drafting the Past podcast, Kate Carpenter interviews archivist and independent New Zealand historian Jared Davidson.

By Kate Carpenter
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Lauren Working Communes with the Objects

Lauren Working Communes with the Objects

In episode 111 of the Drafting the Past podcast, Kate Carpenter interviews Dr. Lauren Working about how she used objects to tell a new history of England and the Americas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

By Kate Carpenter
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