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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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...
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...
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...
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. ...
Intellectual Humility and Historical Thinking: Jonathan Zimmerman
This is the first of my interviews with historians touching on questions of intellectual humility and historical thinking. Today conversation is with...
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