Megan Kate Nelson

Megan Kate Nelson

Megan Kate Nelson is a founding editor of Drafting the Past, and the author of five books. You can find her at www.megankatenelson.com, on Instagram at @megankatenelson, and on Bluesky at @mkn.bksy.social.

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What It's Like to Be On A Book Prize Committee

What It's Like to Be On A Book Prize Committee

Megan Kate Nelson pulls back the curtain in our debut "first person" column

10 New Books We Want to Read This November

10 New Books We Want to Read This November

Snails, telephones, musical theater, and other subjects that caught our attention

Getting Through Getting Stuck

Getting Through Getting Stuck

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

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

12 New Books We Want to Read This October

12 New Books We Want to Read This October

A few of the new histories that caught our eye this month...

12 History Book Covers We Love

12 History Book Covers We Love

The covers of history books don't always stand out for their design, but these do.

Books We're Looking Forward to in September

Books We're Looking Forward to in September

Ten history books coming out this month that caught our eye

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