Historically Thinking
We believe that when people think historically, they are engaging in a disciplined way of thinking about the world and its past. We believe it gives thinkers a knack for recognizing nonsense; and that it cultivates not only intellectual curiosity and rigor, but also intellectual humility. Join Al Zambone, author of Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life, as he talks with historians and other professionals who cultivate the craft of historical thinking.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 62 minutes
- Episodes
- 312
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Episode 382: Women and the Reformations
A forensic reconstruction of Saint Rose of Lima
From the early 16th century, and for over two hundred years after that, a series of convulsions within the Christian church of Western Europe led to i…
01:31:28 |
Fri 08 Nov 2024
Episode 381: Philosophy to the People
His lectures at the College de France were so popular that people arrived at the lecture hall at least an hour in advance. When he finally spoke, it was standing room only, with men literally climbin…
01:20:40 |
Mon 04 Nov 2024
Episode 380: Madrid
For nearly five centuries Madrid has been the capital of Spain, and the focus of frequent contempt by foreign visitors, as well as the scorn and hatred of Spaniards. Prime Minister Manuel Azaña Díaz,…
01:16:24 |
Mon 28 Oct 2024
Episode 379: Philadelphia
It is no longer the largest city in America, or the second largest, or even the fifth largest, but there are still those of us who love it. While modern American cities are all racially, ethnically, …
01:05:04 |
Mon 14 Oct 2024
Episode 378: Old New World
For a few hundred years, the New World of the Americas was thought to be genuinely new. But in the course of the nineteenth century, Americans became increasingly uncertain about the ground beneath t…
01:11:34 |
Mon 07 Oct 2024
Episode 377: BIG HISTORY (From the Archives)
This podcast originally dropped on December 17, 2015.
If we had the reverb and the talent, we'd introduce this week's podcast like one of those guys touting a monster truck event on "SUNDAY, SUNDAY…
Mon 30 Sep 2024
Episode 376: Venerable Bede
Generations of college students have probably imagined that his first name was Venerable, and his family name Bede. But Bede–that’s B-E-D-E–was his only name. He was a native of Northumbria, in the n…
00:59:13 |
Tue 24 Sep 2024
Episode 375: Bible History
It is the most influential book in the history of the world, a book that in many ways set the standard for what books would become, but it is also the book at the heart of a world spanning religion. …
Mon 16 Sep 2024
Episode 374: Serpent in Eden
In his long short story or very short novella entitled “The Man Without a Country,” Edward Everett Hale describes his protagonist Philip Nolan as a young man from the Mississippi Valley who “had grow…
01:12:37 |
Wed 04 Sep 2024
Episode 373: Spycrafte
In Early Modern Europe, spying was not really a profession but it certainly was a verb. At times it would seem, from the dark suspicious years at the end of Henry VII’s life, to Cromwell’s protectora…
01:06:23 |
Fri 30 Aug 2024
Episode 372: Glorious Lessons
Colonel John Trumbull, Artist
John Trumbull must be one of the only artists in the history of American art to insist upon being addressed by his military rank; he was Colonel Trumbull until he died…
01:03:05 |
Mon 26 Aug 2024
Episode 370: Enemies of All
Maritime plundering, or piracy, has happened in nearly all regions of the world, in most ages of human history. Yet the image that we have of "a pirate" in our collective imagination comes from one p…
01:19:34 |
Mon 19 Aug 2024
Episode 371: Forming National Character
How can a new nation establish itself amidst the networks and intrigues of a very old part of the world, while at the same time trying to be different from everyone else? Are these inherently contrad…
01:13:39 |
Mon 12 Aug 2024
Episode 369: Horse
More than any other creature, it has proven itself over millennia to be man’s best and most useful friend. At first it was just another prey animal, but eventually it became such a close companion a…
Mon 29 Jul 2024
Episode 368: Mosquito
It is without question the most lethal predator in the history of the planet. It has killed more humans than any other single cause of death—something around 52 billion over the course of 200,000 ye…
01:03:32 |
Mon 22 Jul 2024
Episode 367: Bloody Tuesday
Just before 10 AM on Tuesday, June 9th, 1964, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, hundreds of people were gathered in First African Baptist, prepared to march to the new Tuscaloosa County Courthouse where they p…
01:08:51 |
Mon 15 Jul 2024
Episode 366: Longing for Connection
Does knowing a lot of facts about the historical past – say, of early America – make us feel closer to it? Or is something else required? How can we–as my guest puts it, “appreciate a bit better what…
01:04:33 |
Mon 08 Jul 2024
Episode 365: Chesapeake Bay Sea Monster
In 1978, along the shoreline of the Potomac River in Westmoreland County, Virginia, people began to see…something…out in the water. Whatever it was, it seemed snakelike. But then all such sightings e…
01:11:52 |
Mon 01 Jul 2024
Episode 363: Flying Saucers
On June 24th, 1947, a private pilot and fire suppression equipment manufacturer named Kenneth Arnold was flying south of Mount Rainier, bound for Yakima, Washington. At about 3 PM he saw a flash of l…
00:54:28 |
Mon 17 Jun 2024
Episode 362: Out of One, Many
Sometime around two and half millennia ago, a cluster of cities and states around the northeastern Mediterranean began to do amazing things. For some reason they began to spread out, establishing tow…
01:04:33 |
Mon 03 Jun 2024
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