Tending the Hearth
Katie GlyerTending the Hearth is a public notebook on early America, historical research, and the making of deeply researched historical fiction.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 46 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 8 days ago |
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A Few Days in May: Reading Martha Ballard Closely
What six diary entries from 1804 can tell us
Hello and welcome to The Keeping Room! This is where we go deeper with history and the practice of studying history, where I share the deeper layers of my research and writing life.
The Old Fires of May
On Beltane, folk custom, and the human longing to belong to the turning year
Some of you know I studied medieval history in college at BU. I was especially fascinated by the early medieval spread of Christianity—not only as religious histo...
A Conversation with Abigail Adams
Join me in this delightful conversation with Sarah Walsh (aka Abigail Adams) as we explore Abigail’s life through the textures that survive best: letters, daily labor, partnership, and the material world.
We talk about how Abigail’s corres...
What is Material Culture?
In this video, I’m talking about one of the ideas that sits at the heart of so much of my work in early American history: the study of the everyday things people made, used, wore, handled, and lived among.
Material culture helps us look be...
On Research, Motherhood, and Historical Fiction
“How’s your book going?” my sister-in-law innocently asked the other day.
“Slow,” I responded. Not just a little bit despondently.
I had written a very rough draft of my inciting incident the day before but then got stuck. “What comes nex...
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