Promoting a Book, (Not) Giving Readers What They Want
In case you missed them, there are two new Drafting the Past episodes for you to catch up on over spring break. First up, Rebecca Brenner Graham joined me to...
Marlene Daut Returns to Storytelling
While I was reading Marlene Daut's new book, The First and Last King of Haiti, in preparation for this week's podcast, the news came out that she was a co-...
Advice from the Archive: "Everything Ain't for Everybody"
Introducing Advice from the Archives, featuring Kidada Williams from Episode 25.
James Tejani Writes Out Loud
Welcome to Season 4 of Drafting the Past! The first interview of 2025 is here, and so is my refreshed commitment to this newsletter. Who knows what's...
What History Book Did You Love This Year?
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...
"How do I take this history and apply it?": Andrew Kahrl
The newest episode of Drafting the Past features Andrew Kahrl, whose new book The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America...
Bonus Audio: "To better reflect the collective possibilities for our future"
Bonus audio from Episode 52: Helen Betya Rubinstein In case you missed it, last week’s Drafting the Past episode featured an episode with writing coach Helen...
A little news (and an excellent episode)
A little programming news, in case you didn't catch it at the end of this week's episode: I'm taking a quick pause from new episodes of Drafting the Past in...
Advice on pitching Drafting the Past
This is sometimes what my inbox feels like. Perhaps naively, when I first launched the Drafting the Past podcast, it didn't occur to me that people might...
There's nothing to it but to do it
How is this garlic related to writing? You'll have to keep reading. A funny thing has happened to me recently when I've taken writing classes, or sat in on...
A deceptively simple writing craft exercise
Yes, I'm encouraging you to copy another historian's work. trust me.
What I Can't Wait to Read
The history books I'm most looking forward to in the first half of 2024.