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 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...
Episode 309: What’s the Use of Your Humanities Degree in an AI World?
So, said an uncle to a student of mine, you’re getting a history degree, huh? When you graduate, you gonna get a job in a history store? The numbers...
Episode 308: Breakfast Cereal
Everything has a history, even breakfast cereal. And that history is involved with the history of grain–which means it is involved with both the history...
Episode 307: Eisenhower’s Guerrillas
In August 1944, Fred Bailey jumped out of a perfectly good airplane and parachuted into Nazi-occupied France, landing in a disused brickyard. Growing...
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