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 rigo
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Syria: Daniel Neep on the Modern History of a Very Old Place
The history of modern Syria is usually reduced to a story of autocracy, repression, and occasional revolt. And it is a short story, stretching back...
The Great Historian: Andrew Meyer on Sima Qian and the invention of history
About a century before the birth of Jesus, during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, a remarkable man began a nearly unprecedented intellectual...
Introducing Historically Thinking Field Guides
In this short episode, Al introduces a new feature of the Historically Thinking podcast: the Historically Thinking Field Guides....
Worse Than Hell: W. Fitzhugh Brundage on Prisoners of War and Prison Camps of the American Civil War
During the American Civil War an estimated 194,000 Union soldiers and 214,000 Confederate soldiers became prisoners of war. No prior or subsequent American...
Civil War Religion: Timothy D. Grundmeier on Lutheranism, the Civil War Era, and American Culture
Lutherans are a strange denomination in American religious history and culture. For Catholics they are certainly Protestants. For Protestants they are...
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