Dear Paid Subscribers

10 ways to get the most out of Substack

Thank you so much for your support! To get the most out of your paid subscription to Substack, here are 10 suggestions. Both my services and Substack’s services have expanded so that you might find more satisfaction and depth in your online interactions.

1. Substack is helping create a new publishing industry, with more than 3 million paid subscriptions and 20 million active users. Those who dream of building a following and earning money from their creative ventures now have a better chance to do so. You can join the fray at Substack.com and start to build a following. We can cross-promote each other.

2. Substack is now a social media network, much more engaging and intellectually stimulating IMHO than Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok. When you post a comment to my Substack or any other, Substack automatically creates a home page for you, with the ability to create your own Substack of short comments, essays, likes, build a network of followers, and discover people to follow based on shared interests. Your homepage is generally substack.com/@yourname.

3. My Substack homepage is substack.com/@jimbuie where I post either short-form comments nearly every day or longer-form essays frequently. You can check in regularly and we can communicate. I post many things that I don’t send out by email as I don’t want to flood email boxes yet seek to cover the landscape of global and American history with educational material and mini-courses.

4. A full list of my mini-courses can be found here on Substack. or in a more graphical form on WordPress here. I produce about one mini-course per month. If there’s interest, I can, upon request, send out PDFs of these thematic posts and mini-course materials to be perused in an e-reader.

5. On my YouTube channel, I share video playlists of historical interest, music, travel, mental health, my public presentations, humor, and many other categories you might be interested in. Click. If you have a YouTube channel, please share it with me.

6. I’ve started a podcast of interviews, reflections, and meditations that you can listen to on the go, in the car, while exercising, or walking. Click.

7. There are several new sections on my Substack: for Global Citizens; Seniors; on the 2024 election; Memoirs; Videos; a section on race and racism; a section on Alternative History; Spirituality, Religion, Mental Health and the Arts; and Public History “beyond the walls of the traditional classroom”; and A Sense of Place. In the Internet age, it’s easy to forget how much physical surroundings and local cultures shape us. We are inevitably creatures and creators of our environments.