What History Book Did You Love This Year?
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It's Your Turn!
Some great episodes have been released lately, in case you've missed them, with Prithi Kanakamedala, Robin Bernstein, James Chappel, and Seth Rockman. It's a great time to catch up while you're wrapping up the semester, baking cookies, and taking walks in unseasonably warm temperatures.
The real reason I'm writing to you today, though, is because the last episode of the year is coming up, and I need your help! Like last year, I'm putting together an episode of the best books of history YOU read this year. To contribute yours, go here and leave me a message with your name, the history book you loved most this year, and a short explanation of why. It doesn't have to have been published this year! Do all of our readings lists a favor and join the fun. The deadline is this Thursday, December 12.
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Just for Fun: History Craft Related Links
- Music for historians to love: I've been a fan of folk singer-songwriter Dawn Landes for a long time. As a historian, her new project, The Liberated Women's Songbook, is especially delicious to me. Here's the description: "The album reimagines music from the women’s liberation movement, with songs featured in The Liberated Woman’s Songbook, originally published in 1971. Landes, along with producer Josh Kaufman (Bonny Light Horseman, Bob Weir, Cassandra Jenkins) highlights 11 musical stories from the canon of women’s activism, from 1830 to 1970."
- It will shock none of you to know that I read whatever writing craft advice I can find, including LitHub's The Craft of Writing newsletter. I especially adored a recent issue from Rebecca Nagle (you might know Nagle from the amazing This Land podcast). In it, Nagle describes how she thinks of the process of turning research into narrative as akin to visual art, like collage.