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Catherine Grace Katz Can Just Feel It
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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.

Tai Edwards and Charlee Huffman Let the Land Tell the Story
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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

Richard Ivan Jobs and Steven Van Wolputte Figure It Out As They Go

Richard Ivan Jobs and Steven Van Wolputte Figure It Out As They Go

Episode 110 of the Drafting the Past podcast

Megan Marshall Believes We Need Exemplary Lives

Megan Marshall Believes We Need Exemplary Lives

In Episode 109 of the Drafting the Past podcast, Kate Carpenter interviews award-winning biographer Megan Marshall

Amy Stanley Would Rather Be Writing

Amy Stanley Would Rather Be Writing

Episode 108 of the Drafting the Past podcast

Chris Hodson and Brett Rushforth Upend History in 1.2 Voices

Chris Hodson and Brett Rushforth Upend History in 1.2 Voices

Episode 107 of the Drafting the Past podcast

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