Download a0e3288f-945d-4ce8-a762-7c900b88a020.mp3 Welcome back to Drafting the Past, a podcast about the craft of writing history. For this one, I’m joined by historian of science Dr. Alex Wellerstein. I’ve been a fan of Alex since at least his first book, Restricted Data: The
Download 49c18c58-23d6-4e5d-a3e0-ee683e2973f0.mp3 Welcome back to Drafting the Past. I’m thrilled to be joined in this episode by historian Dr. Edward Watts. Ed is a professor of history at the University of California San Diego. He is the author of seven books, including Mortal Republic:
Download 38ab2106-0b90-4e71-bc6b-6bbdfac96ddb.mp3 This episode’s guest and I share a last name (no relation, though), but that’s not the only thing we have in common. We both grew up in the Pacific Northwest, where our history education left out most of the violence by
Listen to an interview with Jessica Lepler about her book Canal Dreamers, her writing process, the founding of a second book writers workshop at SHEAR, and more.
Download 639f14f4-e4d0-475d-8211-b383e510bafe.mp3 Dr. Andrew Hartman is a professor of history at Illinois State University. Before that, as you’ll learn in this episode, he was a high school social studies teacher, and he specializes in teaching future social studies teachers. He is the author of
Download 67ce98d0-3bba-4262-aca3-ebd4af32e755.mp3 In this episode, I’m thrilled to be joined by historian Dr. Ruby Lal. When I first started thinking about this interview more than a year ago, I read Ruby’s book Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan. I was swept away
Download a5795ec3-3853-4515-9290-818ff4fc17fb.mp3 In this episode, I’m joined by historian and writer Dr. Surekha Davies. Surekha is a former history professor who now writes full-time, and she can also be found speaking about history and consulting on monsters. In fact, monsters have played a
Download c0aa7059-410f-43e4-9e5f-99633e352cae.mp3 In this episode, Kate Carpenter interviews historian Dr. Seth Rockman. Seth is a historian at Brown University. His first book was called Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore, and he is also the co-editor of the volume Slavery’
In this episode Kate welcomes historian Prithi Kanakamedala. Prithi is a professor of history at Bronx Community College CUNY, and is also a faculty member at CUNY Graduate Center. She is an active public historian, who has worked with a wide range of cultural organizations. One of the projects she
Download 4df09739-385b-4e6e-8eaf-22d07b2954e9.mp3 In this episode, I was delighted to be joined by Dr. Andrew Kahrl. Andrew is a professor of history and African American Studies at the University of Virginia. His third book was published by the University of Chicago Press earlier this year, titled