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 142: Cloak and Gondola, or, on Secret Service for the Republic of Venice

Posted January 8, 202001:09:06

Apologies for the delayed posting of this podcast. Some of us might not like our siblings, but this is ridiculous: “Your excellences must know that...

Episode 141: Stolen, or, a Journey on the Reverse Underground Railroad

Posted December 30, 201901:02:01

In late August, 1825, a sloop sailed down the Delaware Bay from the port of Philadelphia, bound for the Indian River in southern Delaware. Chained in...

Episode 140: Christmas Feasting, or, Meat, Sugar, Alcohol

Posted December 23, 201901:04:09

“There is a moment that comes to so many of us in the late afternoon on Christmas Day,” writes my guest Madeline Shanahan, “when we look at the...

Episode 139: Dominion, or, How Christianity Changed Everything

Posted December 18, 201900:59:20

In the introduction to his new book Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World, my guest Tom Holland writes: “For a millennium and more,...

Episode 138: Music, a Subversive History

Posted December 11, 201900:54:50

“A recurring phenomenon traced in these pages,” writes Ted Gioia in his new book Music: A Subversive History, “a surprisingly consistent one,...