Description: Describes Jack El-Hai’s free monthly brief Damn History, which covers what’s new, intriguing, and useful for readers and writers of popular history.
Damn History is my free monthly brief covering what’s new, intriguing, and useful for readers and writers of popular history. By popular history, I mean history written to attract general readers, although popular history can be a worthwhile genre for professional historians.
I began compiling and sending out Damn History because I couldn’t find a newsletter that met my own interest in popular history – one that combined links to compelling reads with resources for nonfiction writers.
Damn History is also a valuable resource for film, TV, streaming media, and podcast producers looking for material to option and develop.