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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
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
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.
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
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
In this episode, Kate is joined by Karin Wulf, the director and librarian of the John Carter Brown Library, to discuss her new book, Lineage, and her research and writing process.
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