Meeting @katecarp.bsky.social in real life was definitely a highlight of #OAH26! And this seems like the perfect chance to shoutout Kate’s excellent and informative #FeedingTheElephant piece, “How To Be A Great Podcast Guest.” networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
Thank you, Dawn! It was so delightful to meet you finally!
In short, if you are a billionaire looking to provide a small podcaster with a salary, hit me up.
Correction: It is now a very impressive 15-foot-deep hole, in which they found an incredibly disintegrated pipe ("I've only ever seen one other concrete sewer line," the man says cheerfully) and will now have to wait until tomorrow to dig another gigantic hole in search of other pipe.
The men who have now dug an 8-foot hole in my backyard seem alarmingly unfamiliar with everything I discussed with the guy who determined that they needed to dig said hole.
Home ownership is so fun.
I have quite literally been trying to work up the courage to invite her on the show. Podcasting is weird and amazing sometimes.
OMG a dream podcast guest reached out to me out of the blue to very humbly ask to be on the podcast and she has dramatically improved my morning.
Woke up with a migraine, scrambled to get ready, 8-8:30 arrival window for sewer line repair guys has come and gone, Monday already off to a roaring start.
last hour of amtrak powered by @mkn.bsky.social @katecarp.bsky.social @draftingthepast.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
BUT very glad to have met some wonderful people in person finally, including @civicspod.bsky.social @jlepler.bsky.social @dawnd.bsky.social @monicalmercado.bsky.social @ceaubin.com @carlygoodman.bsky.social and others that my tired brain has momentarily spaced on!
Once again, leaving an academic conference with complicated feelings, all of which I can't quite figure out how to express.
Hand holding a uncorrected page proof copy of the book Night Hawk: A Nineteenth Century Superhero and the Dawn Of American Culture, by Matthew Warner Osborn.
Look what I stole at #oah26 @nighthawkog.bsky.social 👀
You should go to this OAH panel. The 2nd book is harder than the 1st.
My 2nd book took 16 years. It's not you, it's structural, I convened a panel to explain why. www.annaolaw.com/blog/why-the...
I can neither confirm nor deny
Hey now, you're stealing my talking points! 😂
Good morning #oah26! Come see our panel, Writing Your Second Book NOW, today at 3:30 in Salon B, and find out what I, a person who has written neither a first nor a second book, have to say on the subject!
Were going to get this dang dissertation done by fall. Whatever it takes.*
*Now accepting suggestions for adding more hours to my days.
Just a periodic reminder: I’ve been writing, speaking, and thinking about the U.S. 250th for the past nine years, both tracking national developments and helping provide resources for state/local ones. Always happy to talk 250 anytime (like when the WH announces/advances some grand plan, perhaps).
The internet has now disappointed me with recommendations for two different things to eat at the Reading Terminal Market that were not as good as advertised, so I will no longer be trusting Philly's reddit denizens.
Should I invite an agent on @draftingthepast.bsky.social?
Just in case you don’t believe me. This is a thing I’m always upset about when it comes to public scholarship, which is a topic I care so deeply about. www.patreon.com/posts/900009...
But you should also follow whatever specific instructions are on the agency's site.
My understanding is that you can definitely query multiple agents at once, and ideally you would have a book proposal ready to show them, which should include a sample chapter
Planning on attending a full day of panels on writing history at #oah26 tomorrow (including the one I'm on!), which is extremely on brand for me. Maybe we need a whole conference just on writing history??
I'm sorry not to get to see you speak there!
Too often when academic historians want to write for the public, they think it's a matter of adding color: description, vignettes. Description is great, as is a telling anecdote. But good writing gives the reader expectations, then—one way or another—fulfills them. We're going someplace.
12/16
An Instagram post from the NEH with a graphic that advertises a grant deadline for Curriculum Development: Western Civilization.
Yikes.
Sorry to say that the pipes require last rites more than blessings at this point
Headed to #oah26 today, trying not to think about pipes all weekend.
