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 204: The Peace Treaty of 1916 That Didn’t Happen
By August of 1916, the combatants in the First World War had been locked in struggle for two years. While the German Empire had enjoyed astonishing...
Episode 203: The Saint, the Count, and Sourcing (Historical Thinking Series)
This is the third of our conversations on the skills of historical thinking, and this time the subject is sourcing. It’s a term invented by Sam Wineburg–patron...
Episode 202: Talking History, Podcasting, and the Age of Jackson, with Daniel N. Gullotta
Today's podcast is something we haven't done for a year, a conversation with another history podcaster. A year ago, just as the pandemic was beginning...
Episode 201: Isaac Newton, After Gravity
In 1696, Isaac Newton, then Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, moved rather suddenly to London. There he took the position of...
Episode 200: Connecting, from an English Portrait to Galileo and Beyond, with J.L. Heilbron
This is the second of Historically Thinking’s yearlong series on the the skills of historical thinking. In our first installment this year, which...
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