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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you!

Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 2h

Such a cool project!

Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 3h

Repeating this plea for the evening crowd. Don't let me embarrass myself again this year.

Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 12h

I'm determined to be a useful member of the Digital Scholarship committee for the WHA this year, so I need help: what cool new-ish digital humanities projects related to Western US history do you know about?

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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 4h

That explains a lot

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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 4h

Reading a book about the Roman empire and I would like men to explain their ongoing fascination.

(It's a good book! This is not a knock on the book!)

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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 4h

That's really awesome

Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 4h

Cool!

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Slate @slate.com · 7h

OUT NOW: When We All Get to Heaven, the story of one of the first gay-positive churches during the AIDS epidemic.

It is a story of bridging differences, finding hope, and building community in a time of darkness, uncertainty, and fear.

Listen now: slate.com/podcasts/whe...

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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 12h

I'm determined to be a useful member of the Digital Scholarship committee for the WHA this year, so I need help: what cool new-ish digital humanities projects related to Western US history do you know about?

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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 13h

Hoo boy

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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 13h

Oh good, I was hoping

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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 14h

Excellent! I packed my hiking shoes just in case I find myself on a trail instead of in a conference room!

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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 15h

Off to ABQ for #wha2025 today! Want to get coffee? Hit me up!

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Brendan O'Meara @brendanomeara.bsky.social · 1d

Issue 1 of Pitch Club, the one that started it all, the phenomenon sweeping across the nation! Proof that the internet can, in fact, break.

Nick Davidson's Atavist Pitch for "The Balloon That Fell From the Sky"

In the first Pitch Club, Nick Davidson breaks down his pitch for The Atavist Magazine.

welcometopitchclub.substack.com

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 1d

My best advice to aspiring authors of scholarly books is to read other scholarly books recently published by your target press. This may seem obvious and yet is not!

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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 1d

I now have about three days worth of work that I've resolved to "get done on the plane" to WHA in ABQ this week. Wish me luck.

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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 1d

I'm pretty sure I broke some basic "best practice" of podcasting by spending 5 minutes gushing about someone else's show (hey @brendanomeara.bsky.social), but it's my show, I do what I want.

And @tracyslater.bsky.social was so great! Listen now.

Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 1d

So fun to chat w/ @tracyslater.bsky.social about TOGETHER IN MANZANAR! Learn how she found her way to narrative history & how she stays with her characters as she tells their story. She also made me blush talking abt how podcasts are part of her writing community draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

Podcast graphic image. On the left is a photograph of a smiling blond woman, and on the right teal text reads "Drafting the Past Episode 70: Tracy Slater."

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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 2d

Sharing some advice for pitching Drafting the Past again here, mostly so I can pin it to the top of the feed: buttondown.com/draftingthep...

Advice on pitching Drafting the Past

This is sometimes what my inbox feels like. Perhaps naively, when I first launched the Drafting the Past podcast, it didn't occur to me that people might...

buttondown.com

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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 2d

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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 2d

Huh! I would think that would already be on a pediatrician's radar! Ours always reminds us how important reading to kids is.

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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 2d

Wait, you had to explain this to your pediatrician?

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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 4d

I am way too overextended to start a narrative history podcast out of spite.

But still.

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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 4d

I mean these are amazing numbers! I think there was also a technical shift in there about how downloads were tracked that reduced everyone's numbers from then on.

Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 5d

Got to hear Percival Everett tonight, and man, do I really love books and writing and talking about them.

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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 5d

Oh intriguing! I thought that's what we used whatsapp for