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Drafting the Past

Drafting the Past is a podcast dedicated to the craft of writing history, hosted by Kate Carpenter. Shop books by our guests, their recommendations, and some of our favorite craft books and support the podcast and independent bookstores!

The Craft of Research, Fifth Edition Thinking Like Your Editor: How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction and Get It Published Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer's Guide to Finishing, Publishing, Promoting, and Surviving Your First Book
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Craft Books

Scraping by: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore
Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development
Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery
Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age
Catholic Modern: The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church
Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights
Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities That Shaped a Borough
The Land Was Ours: How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South
Free the Beaches: The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America's Most Exclusive Shoreline
The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America
Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture
Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic
The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
Class Action: The Landmark Case that Changed Sexual Harassment Law
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence
The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (Revised)
River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt
Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1760-1860
Accounting for Capitalism: The World the Clerk Made
Kairos
Go, Went, Gone
William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (Vintage Books)
Did It Happen Here?: Perspectives on Fascism and America
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South (Revised)
My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering
Mourning Lincoln
The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century
Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science
Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City
Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement
Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul
Murder in a Mill Town: Sex, Faith, and the Crime That Captivated a Nation
Reforming Men and Women: Gender in the Antebellum City
Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South
Oceans Under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea
Indigenous Peoples: Women Who Made a Difference (Super Sheroes of History)
The Disastrous Wrangel Island Expedition
Indigenous Peoples' Day
Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past
The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America
School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness
The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy
Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life
Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës
Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris
Deviant Maternity: Illegitimacy in Wales, C. 1680-1800
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
Nobility Lost: French and Canadian Martial Cultures, Indians, and the End of New France
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture
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Season 1 Guests

Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (Revised)
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Mentioned on Season 1

Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human
Humans: A Monstrous History
The Holy Household: Women and Morals in Reformation Augsburg (Revised)
The Witch in the Western Imagination
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany
Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther's World and Legacy
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War
Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families
Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkinss Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany
Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution
A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America
The Craft of Research, Fifth Edition
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150-1750 (Revised)
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Wordcraft: The Complete Guide to Clear, Powerful Writing
Storycraft, Second Edition: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction
By Night Under the Stone Bridge
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Hannah Arendt
Thick: And Other Essays
Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer's Guide to Finishing, Publishing, Promoting, and Surviving Your First Book
Thinking Like Your Editor: How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction and Get It Published
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