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 314: Peerless Among Princes
In the early sixteenth century there emerged upon the world stage a cast of royal characters that could almost persuade the most hardened social historian...
Episode 313: Intellectual Humility, Social Psychologically Speaking
This is the second of our continuing series on intellectual humility and historical thinking. Today I'm interested in exploring the social science of...
Episode 312: Gods of Thunder
The medieval warm period began in the mid-tenth century, around and about 950 AD. A warmer climate led to higher agricultural yields, and in an agricultural...
Episode 311: Knowledge Towns
From the beginning of the university in the middle ages, relations between town and gown–between students and citizens– began badly and got worse....
Episode 310: Intellectual Humility and the “Internet of Us”
If we believed in click bait, we would title this "one weird historical thinking trick to save your country." But it's not, so you get a boring but...
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