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 361: Book Makers
Books have been made for over 530 years. That is, they have been created from raw materials– sometimes lovingly, sometimes not–printed, bound, and sold, only then to be read. When we think only of wh…
00:57:30 |
Mon 27 May 2024
Intellectual Humility and Historical Thinking: Joseph Manning
This is another of our series of conversations on intellectual humility and historical thinking.
With me today is Joseph Manning. He is the William K. and Marilyn Milton Simpson Professor of Classi…
00:24:38 |
Mon 20 May 2024
Episode 360: City of Light, City of Darkness
The Paris of the Belle Époque was a city divided by new and old conflicts–the tensions of modernity, and the schisms which had divided France since 1789. Modernity, which the city both exemplified an…
01:13:26 |
Mon 13 May 2024
Episode 359: Damascus Events
At 2 PM on July 9, 1860, a mob attacked the Christian quarter of Damascus. For over a week, shops, churches, houses, and monasteries were attacked, looted, and burned. Men were killed, women raped an…
01:10:22 |
Mon 06 May 2024
Episode 358: Narrative
As you might have noticed, the world is awash in narratives. You hear people talk about “establishing the narrative”, or noting that “in the last 24 hours the narrative has changed.” We don’t talk ab…
01:11:30 |
Mon 29 Apr 2024
Episode 357: Empire of Climate
"..Since ancient times, the idea that the climate exerts a determining influence on minds and bodies, health and well-being, customs and character, war and wealth has attracted a long line of committ…
01:01:07 |
Mon 22 Apr 2024
Episode 356: First Dark Ages?
In 1177 BC a series of very unfortunate events culminated in the collapse of numerous kingdoms centered upon the western Mediterranean. The nature of those events, and how one played upon the other, …
01:07:13 |
Mon 15 Apr 2024
Episode 355: Steam Powered
At a pivotal moment in Chapter 17 of Nathanael Hawthorne’s House of the Seven Gables, two of his protagonists escape from haunted Salem, Massachusetts, and are whirled away from its power by the even…
Mon 08 Apr 2024
Episode 354: Collisions
In late July 2013, Vladimir Putin visited Kiev. There he celebrated the 1,025th anniversary of Christianity coming to the Kievan Rus. There he and Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych stood shoulder…
01:09:15 |
Mon 01 Apr 2024
Episode 353: Devils’ Rise
On June 24, 1894, President of France Sadi Carnot was stabbed by an anarchist; on September 10, 1898, Empress Elisabeth of Austria was stabbed by an anarchist; on July 29, 1900, King Umberto I of Ita…
01:06:58 |
Mon 25 Mar 2024
Intellectual Humility and Historical Thinking: Mark Carnes
Today’s guest is Mark Carnes, Professor of History at Barnard College. His academic speciality is modern American history and pedagogy. Among his many books are an edited volume, Meanings for Manhood…
00:51:43 |
Thu 14 Mar 2024
351: Pox Romana
By the reign of Marcus Arelius, Rome seems to be unquestioned in its reach of its power, its wealth, and its cultural and intellectual sophistication. The Pax Romana stretched from Britain and Portug…
01:09:10 |
Mon 11 Mar 2024
Episode 350: Revolutionary Age
From the 1760s into the 1830s, waves of revolutions rolled up upon the shores of the Atlantic World, confusing or destroying entrenched political and social hierarchies, and ushering in a new era of …
01:09:07 |
Mon 04 Mar 2024
Intellectual Humility and Historical Thinking: Leah Shopkow
Today’s guest in our series of conversations on intellectual humility and historical thinking is Leah Shopkow, Professor of History at Indiana University in Bloomington. She is a historian of the Mid…
00:42:28 |
Tue 27 Feb 2024
Episode 349: Fallingwater
Fallingwater, perched above Bear Run in southwestern Pennsylvania is Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece, a house perhaps as recognizable as any other in the United States–and it's not even on the nicke…
01:19:54 |
Mon 26 Feb 2024
Episode 348: Nasty Little War
In the summer of 1918, hoping to somehow re engage the Russians in the First World War as the Allied offensive on the western front began, thousands of Allied troops began to land in ports in Russia’…
01:12:37 |
Mon 19 Feb 2024
Intellectual Humility and Historical Thinking: Suzanne Marchand
In our latest in the series of conversations on intellectual humility and historical thinking, my interlocutor is Suzanne Marchand. She is Boyd Professor at Louisiana State University. Her interests …
00:29:37 |
Fri 02 Feb 2024
Episode 347: Abolitionist Civil War
Following the outbreak of the American Civil War, the abolitionist movement underwent an “astonishing transformation”, which would in time alter the direction of the war, the shape of the postwar set…
01:09:48 |
Mon 22 Jan 2024
Episode 346: The World That Wasn’t
Henry Wallace was an Iowan, an accomplished geneticist who hybridized corn; an entrepreneur who co-founded Pioneer Hi-Bred to produce seed, still an agricultural behemoth; the third-generation of edi…
01:15:14 |
Mon 15 Jan 2024
Episode 345: Ecology of Nations
Some animals—like beavers, nesting ants, bees, and humans—actively reshape their environments to make them more favorable for their own species. My guest today believes that the same is also true of…
01:05:00 |
Mon 08 Jan 2024
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