This week we go to the archives with historian Angela Diaz! After discussing her favorite tools and time organization, Angela discusses some great tips for approaching archive visits and materials. Check out more about Angela’s work here!
Category Archives: Tools
Liner Notes Vol. 1, Track 4 – Joe Adelman
This week’s track is with Joseph Adelman, a historian at Framingham State University and author of Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763–1789. We discuss our favorite pens (with a strong showing from the No. 2 pencil, this week), organizing space and time with kids at home during the pandemic, andContinue reading “Liner Notes Vol. 1, Track 4 – Joe Adelman”
Liner Notes Vol. 1, Track 3 – Eladio Bobadilla
This episode gets deep! Not only do we discuss the importance of having a range of pens, and in particular the magic of the Pilot Friction Erasable pens, (they even come in MARKERS), we also get into how pens reflect the development of our voices as writers. There is so much to think about afterContinue reading “Liner Notes Vol. 1, Track 3 – Eladio Bobadilla”
Liner Notes Vol. 1, Track 2 – Hilary Green
This week, we talk with historian Hilary Green, whose social media posts about writing, research, reading, and process are so inspiring. In addition to her many publications, she has also has captured research about race, slavery, and memory at the University of Alabama in the Hallowed Grounds project. Her book, Educational Reconstruction: African American SchoolsContinue reading “Liner Notes Vol. 1, Track 2 – Hilary Green”
Liner Notes Vol. 1: Track 1 – Megan Kate Nelson
In this first episode of Liner Notes, we talk with author and historian Megan Kate Nelson. We discuss the merits of the blue BIC Cristal pen and florescent yellow Sharpie highlighter, writing during a pandemic, and the personalized process of finding one’s writing structures and routines. In the show, we make reference to John Hughes’Continue reading “Liner Notes Vol. 1: Track 1 – Megan Kate Nelson”
The History Mixtapes: Introducing Liner Notes!
Announcing that my video podcast (with an audio version) will launch Friday, February 19, 2021! I’ve taken a structured approach to the podcast around three central questions. What’s in your pen case? With this question, I’m asking guests to highlight three of their go-to writing, editing, teaching, or organization tools. Everyone has those things thatContinue reading “The History Mixtapes: Introducing Liner Notes!”
My Sticky-Note Outlining Process
I’ve been posting on Twitter randomly recently about my process while outlining a couple of new chapters. I’ll elaborate and make it clearer what is happening. I wrote a whole thread about this, then accidentally deleted it. A blog post is better, anyways. As I’m researching, writing, I often make notes on stickies about ideasContinue reading “My Sticky-Note Outlining Process”
A Podcast Plan
Do you ever look at your colleagues, peers, and friends and wonder: how exactly do they keep it all organized? When there are so many bits of information, meetings, inspirations, items to research, ideas to capture — how do we remember it all? For me, it’s my friend Caroline. She’s an inspiration in many regardsContinue reading “A Podcast Plan”
Visting Gropius House
While I was composing Resources for Pens and Paper Part I: Brick and Mortar (Boston), I remarked upon how visiting Bob Slate Stationer has a timeless quality, reminiscent of Walter Gropius’s desk. It made me nostalgic for visits to Gropius House, one of the properties of Historic New England. Gropius came to the United StatesContinue reading “Visting Gropius House”
Resources for Pens and Paper Part I: Brick and Mortar (Boston)
Part I of a series on the sources I use for pens, paper, and various tools of the scholar’s trade. This post focuses on brick-and-mortar stores that I frequent most often (when I am able).