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 321: Amazing Iroquois

Posted June 19, 202301:05:18

When on April 9, 1865, Ulysses S Grant received the surrender of Robert E Lee, one of the staff officers who accompanied him was Ely S. Parker.  He...

Episode 320: The Devils Will Get No Rest

Posted June 15, 202301:01:19

As the President of the United States prepared to travel to Morocco for a wartime conference, his closest aide and advisor wrote down just why he was...

Episode 319: Working College

Posted June 5, 202300:55:56

Alice Lloyd: A serious woman In 1951 the Southern Association of Colleges, an accrediting agency, sent a committee to assess a small two-year institution...

Episode 318: Speaking Yiddish to Chickens

Posted May 30, 202300:56:31

East of Philadelphia and west of Atlantic City is the city of Vineland, situated in more or less the geographical center of South Jersey. Since the...

Episode 317: Third Reich Village

Posted May 25, 202301:03:56

The village of Oberstdorf lies in the midst of the Allgauer Alps, not that far from the Austrian border. While other Alpine towns like Garmisch-Partenkirchen,...