Other Groups on History and Writing

Writing History, Yale’s Group. The folks at Writing History also have a wiki devoted to the promotion of good, creative history.

Past Tense Seminar, sponsored by the USC-Huntington
Early Modern Studies Institute (which extends well beyond the early
modern period).

The Making History Podcast is a great site with all sorts of musings on writing and technology, as well as interviews with prominent historians. In particular, Patricia Nelson Limerick gives a reading of her essay, “Dancing with Professors” in which she meditates upon the dense prose that fills many a historian’s work. Here is part one.

BackStory, a radio program put out by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, brings historical background to a wide range of today’s issues. Not really about the intersection of writing and history, but an exciting program nonetheless.