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 386: College Sports

Posted December 4, 202401:08:37

Many college professors like to remind each other that no other nation on earth has the system of collegiate sports that has developed in the United...

Episode 385: Golden Years

Posted November 25, 202400:55:33

When did old age in America first  begin? That is, when did we first begin to conceive ideas about a stage of life in which older people no longer...

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...