Dolly Jørgensen Always Has Another Project Up Her Sleeve
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Anna O. Law Reads Her Way Into History
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Gautham Rao Completes Each Vacation with an Archive Trip
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Emily Dufton Loves Paper (But Watch Out For Floods)
Episode 97 of the Drafting the Past podcast
Emily Lieb Writes (and Rewrites) Through It
Episode 91 of the Drafting the Past podcast
Episode 88: Sonya Bonczek Gives Us the Scoop on Book Publicity
Download 37161f08-1bc6-4dfc-9287-5296e1e95874.mp3 In most episodes, I interview an author of nonfiction history about their research and writing process, but in today’s episode we get to do something a little different. We’re taking a closer look at how authors and presses get the word
Episode 84: Shaun Richman Wants to Know Who the Rats Were
Download 818d12e0-c1af-4076-a2da-4d48ed4433cd.mp3 In this episode, host Kate Carpenter interviews labor historian Dr. Shaun Richman. Shaun is a program director at SUNY Empire State College, and he recently completed his PhD in American Studies. But before that, he spent more than a decade as a union
Episode 83: Renata Keller Makes Space for Herself Through Writing
Download 465d0048-4113-4b94-9f1e-577dd7b7b3b4.mp3 In this episode of Drafting the Past, you’ll hear from a historian who had to figure out how to wrangle narratives from twenty different countries to tell a new history of the Cuban Missile Crisis. But keeping track of all those threads
Episode 82: Jeff Roche Knows Exactly Who His Reader Is
Download b6858689-c33f-4a1e-be30-c77093cc3506.mp3 This is the first episode of 2026, which means that we are at the beginning of the fifth season of this show. That’s a lot of great conversations about writing history, and I want to thank you for being here for them.
Episode 80: Amy Erdman Farrell Leaps Into Something New
Download 618707f6-6e28-42e0-abdd-1e910b1b5e4d.mp3 I have a soft spot for historians who follow their curiosity through a range of subjects that might, at first glance, seem unrelated. So I was especially delighted to get to interview this episode’s guest, Dr. Amy Erdman Farrell. Amy is a