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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Episode 384: Intent to Destroy

Posted November 22, 202401:12:58

Many were shocked in February 2022 by the Russian attempt to seize Kyiv and decapitate the Ukranian regime, thereby ending the war begun in 2014. But...

Episode 383: Quaker Founder

Posted November 18, 202401:12:06

As today’s guest writes in the introduction of her new book Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson, “For more than two hundred years,...

Episode 382: Women and the Reformations

Posted November 8, 202401:31:28

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...

Episode 381: Philosophy to the People

Posted November 4, 202401:20:40

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...

Episode 380: Madrid

Posted October 27, 202401:16:24

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...