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 286: Weavers, Scribes, and Kings
The history of the ancient Near East can seem like staring down a deep, deep well of time, so deep that it gives one vertigo. It stretches back to 3,500...
Episode 285: Finding Agatha Christie
At her 80th birthday party Agatha Christie described a conversation she had once overheard about herself. She had been on a train, and there listened...
Episode 284: The Greatest Russian General, in War and Peace
If we know Mikhail Ilarionovich Golenischev-Kutuzov, we know him as Tolstoy imagined him, as an old man, before Austerlitz, “with his uniform unbuttoned...
Episode 283: Two Houses, Two Kingdoms
For centuries the Kingdom of England faced northeast, across the northern seas towards Scandinavia. Indeed, under King Canute, England was part of Scandinavia....
Episode 282: Griffins, Greek Fire, and Ancient Poisons
For thousands of years humans have in war and peace attempted to poison one another—or, perhaps for variety, burn each other to death. We might...
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