Drafting the Past
By Kate Carpenter
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Episodes: 110
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Jun 11, 2025
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Drafting the Past is a podcast devoted to the craft of writing history. Each episode features an interview with a historian about the joys and challenges of their work as a writer.
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Episode 107: Chris Hodson and Brett Rushforth Upend History in 1.2 Voices
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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Episode 106: Dolly Jørgensen Always Has Another Project Up Her Sleeve
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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Episode 105: Charles O'Malley and Scott Stern Collaborate On A Book and A Life
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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Episode 104: Anna O. Law Reads Her Way Into History
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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Episode 103: Charlotte Brooks Is Always Thinking About Research
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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Episode 102: Gautham Rao Completes Each Vacation with an Archive Trip
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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Episode 101: Tara Mulder Describes the Conditions of Labor
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May 26, 2026 |
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Episode 100: Jessica Riskin Lets the Story Carry the Argument
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May 19, 2026 |
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Episode 99: Craig Fehrman Wanted to Write an Epic Page-Turner
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May 12, 2026 |
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Episode 98: David Perry Writes the Book on Public Scholarship
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May 05, 2026 |
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Episode 97: Emily Dufton Loves Paper (But Watch Out For Floods)
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Episode 96: Daniel Neep and the Power of Immersion
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Episode 95: John Garrison Marks Starts Writing Before He's Awake
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Episode 94: Megan Kate Nelson Returns!
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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Episode 93: Matthew Avery Sutton Religiously Opposes the Block Quote
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Episode 92: Rhae Lynn Barnes and the Writing Advice She Didn't Take
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Episode 91: Emily Lieb Writes (and Rewrites) Through It
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Episode 90: Matthew Delmont Works on Pacing and Character
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Episode 89: Richard Bell Boils and Distills
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Episode 88: Sonya Bonczek Gives Us the Scoop on Book Publicity
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Episode 87: Andrew Edwards Wants to Make You Feel Something About Money
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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From the Archive: Isabela Morales Protects the Writer's Spirit
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Episode 86: Heather Ann Thompson Evokes the Moment
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Episode 85: Fahad Bishara Tells the Story of a World in Motion
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Episode 84: Shaun Richman Wants to Know Who the Rats Were
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Episode 83: Renata Keller Makes Space for Herself Through Writing
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Episode 82: Jeff Roche Knows Exactly Who His Reader Is
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Episode 81: The Best History Books You Read This Year
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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Episode 80: Amy Erdman Farrell Leaps Into Something New
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Episode 79: Alex Wellerstein Reminds Us That Writing Is a Skill to Hone
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Episode 78: Edward Watts Looks to the Ancient Past for Writing Advice
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Episode 77: Marc James Carpenter Calls A Lie A Lie
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Episode 76: Karin Wulf Keeps Her Brain Humming Along
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Episode 75: Jessica Lepler Knows That Criticism Is Praise
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Episode 74: Mary Frances Phillips Works From a Place of Play
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Episode 73: Tyler Anbinder Revises Every Day That He Writes
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Episode 72: Joanne Paul Isn't Afraid to Call Herself an Artist
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Episode 71: Raphael Cormack Makes Meaning from Unreliable Sources
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Episode 70: Tracy Slater Finds Her Footing in Narrative History
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Episode 69: Andrew Hartman Takes the Time to Get It Right
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Episode 68: Ruby Lal Paints a Lush World
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Episode 67: Stephanie Gorton Puts Authentic Interactions on the Page
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Episode 66: Padraic Scanlan Makes the Medicine Go Down
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May 30, 2025 |
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Episode 65: Omar Valerio-Jiménez Puts in the Hours
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May 09, 2025 |
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Episode 64: Emily Herring Listens For the Rhythm
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Episode 63: Surekha Davies Has No Lack of Deadlines
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Episode 62: Lyndal Roper Takes a Journey by Page and Pedal
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Episode 61: Judith Giesberg Resists Giving Readers What They Want
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Episode 60: Rebecca Brenner Graham Gives Us the Publicity Behind-the-Scenes
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Episode 59: Marlene Daut Returns to Storytelling
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Episode 58: James Tejani Aims for Smart, Elegant Simplicity
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Episode 57: Seth Rockman Vows This Time Will Be Different
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Episode 56: James Chappel Tames the Waterfall of Detail
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Episode 55: Robin Bernstein and the Disco Ball of Integrity
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Episode 54: Prithi Kanakamedala Invites Us Into the Past
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Episode 53: Andrew Kahrl Embraces Relevance
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Episode 52: Helen Betya Rubinstein Coaches Historian-Writers
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Episode 51: Lindsay Chervinsky Loves That Writing Is Work
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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Episode 50: Clara Bingham Lets Her Sources Speak For Themselves
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Episode 49: Robert Alpert, Merle Eisenberg, and Lee Mordechai Survive Writing a Book Together
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Episode 48: Neil J. Young Gives Us Characters
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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BONUS: Historians at the Movies Episode 88: Twisters/The History of Storm Chasing with Kate Carpenter (Feed Drop)
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Episode 47: Kathleen Sheppard Learns to Use the Novelist's Tools
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Episode 46: Tore Olsson Writes for the Gamers (and All of Us)
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Episode 45: Jason Heppler Wants Tools That Fit His Questions
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Episode 44: Kellie Carter Jackson Puts Black People at the Center
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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Episode 43: Margaret O'Mara Starts with the People
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Episode 42: Kimberly Harper Didn't Know She Could Be a Writer
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Episode 41: Nathan Perl-Rosenthal Doesn't Want to Let Go
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Episode 40: Grace Elizabeth Hale is Undisciplined
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Episode 39: Benjamin Park Stays Rooted
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Episode 38: The Best History Books You Read This Year
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Episode 37: Martha Hodes Delves Into Her Own Past
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Episode 36: Catherine McNeur Writes With Delight
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Episode 35: Tanisha C. Ford Builds the Story's Layers
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Episode 34: Bruce Dorsey Puts True Crime on Stage
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Episode 33: Sarah McNamara Takes Us to Ybor City
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Episode 32: Samantha Muka Finds Joy in the Work
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Episode 31: Katrina Phillips Starts With the Fragments
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Episode 30: Lauren Lassabe Shepherd Shamelessly Reaches Out
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Episode 29: Anna Zeide Gets Comfortable
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Episode 28: Melissa Sevigny Skates Down the River
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Episode 27: Carly Goodman Tells Us What Happened
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Episode 26: Aaron Sachs Knows Historians Are Writers!
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Episode 25: Kidada Williams Preaches the Gospel of Audience
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Louis Moore Knows His Stuff
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Episode 23: Andrew Wehrman Writes the Next Topic Sentence
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Episode 22: Lyndsie Bourgon Sculpts the Story
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Episode 21: Andrew Simon Listens to History
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Episode 20: Natalia Mehlman Petrzela Takes Culture (Not Too) Seriously
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Episode 19: Deborah Harkness Does Her Best Historical Work
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Episode 18: Adam Sowards Follows His Curiosity
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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Episode 17: Marcia Chatelain Writes Anywhere She Can
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Episode 16: Abby Mullen Finds Focus
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Episode 15: Einav Rabinovitch-Fox Builds Language Muscles
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Episode 14: Dan Bouk Finds Wonder in the Boring
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Episode 13: Isabela Morales Protects the Writer's Spirit
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Episode 12: Victoria Wolcott Marinates in the Sources
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Episode 11: Erin L. Thompson Finds the Strange
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Episode 10: David M. Perry Writes Out Loud
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Episode 9: Nishant Batsha, Lapsed Historian, Debut Novelist
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Episode 8: Elizabeth Hennessy Bridges Geography and History
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Episode 7: Ben Railton Builds Consistency and Community Online
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May 11, 2022 |
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Episode 6: Carole Emberton Finds the Emotional Heart
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Episode 5: Mia Bay Embraces Imperfection
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Episode 4: Zachary Schrag Asks Who Does What to Whom
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Episode 3: Bathsheba Demuth Evokes a Place
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Episode 2: Davarian Baldwin Blends Ideas and Narrative
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Episode 1: Megan Kate Nelson Experiments with Structure
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Episode 0: Introducing Drafting the Past
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Jan 19, 2022 |