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Mining the Past for New Material
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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

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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.”

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Getting Through Getting Stuck

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

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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

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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.”

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Living, Laughing, Buying, and Voting

Living, Laughing, Buying, and Voting

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

Waking Up From a Carolingian Dream

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

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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

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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

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