Drafting the Past

kate@draftingthepast.com

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Booking Overview

Drafting the Past is a history-writing craft podcast that pairs an experienced interviewer with published historians to discuss research, narrative choices, and the real-world challenges of writing history. It’s a strong booking opportunity for authors and academic historians who can speak to process and public-facing scholarship.

Metrics

Episodes: 107

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

Instagram: 794 followers

Contact Information

kate@draftingthepast.com

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Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Published historians/academics with relevant expertise and recent or notable books; ability to discuss research and writing process (including archival methods) for a general audience.
Required Achievements:  
Published monographs or trade-focused history books, Academic faculty appointments, Visible scholarship such as op-eds, contributions to major public/legal conversations, or established research reputations

Recent Guest Discussions

Charlotte Brooks - Writing And Research Process For A History Book; Working With Descendants; Making Historical Characters Compelling; Challenges Of Publishing For A Trade Audience.

Gautham Rao - Using And Organizing Evidence From Multiple Locations; Writing And Rewriting For Clarity; How A Colleague’s Remark Shifted His Publishing Path.

Tara Mulder - Challenges Of Writing While Teaching And Seeking Tenure-track Work; Shaping A Historical Narrative From Archival Scraps; The Role Of Personal Background In Reading The Archive.

Recent Topics

History, Archival Research, Writing Craft, Historiography, Public Scholarship

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Drafting the Past
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Episode 104: Anna O. Law Reads Her Way Into History

June 16, 2026

In this episode, Kate Carpenter interviews Dr. Anna O. Law, a political science who retrained herself in historical methods to write her new book, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship. Anna is a professor of political science and Herbert Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights at CUNY Brooklyn College. In her new books, she takes a close look at which parts and levels of government in the United States have controlled people's ability to move around and across borders throughout the ...

Episode 103: Charlotte Brooks Is Always Thinking About Research

June 09, 2026

It's not every day that I find myself so invested in the characters of a history book that I stay up way past my bed time to find out what happens next, but that's exactly what happened when I read the new book by today's guest, Dr. Charlotte Brooks. Charlotte is a professor of history at Baruch College, which is part of the City University of New York, or CUNY, system. She is a scholar of race, immigration, and urban history, and is especially known for her work on Chinese American history....

Episode 102: Gautham Rao Completes Each Vacation with an Archive Trip

June 02, 2026

In this episode, Kate Carpenter is joined by a scholar who can never pass up a good archive, Dr. Gautham Rao. Gautham is a historian of American law and politics and is an associate professor of history at American University in Washington. He's the author of two books: National Duties: Custom Houses and the Making of the American State, and his new book, White Power: Policing American Slavery. White Power is a history of the laws that enslavers used to police enslaved people from 1619 until ...

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