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 96: The History of Making Things Cold

Posted January 30, 2019 • 00:51:12

Frederic Tudor was the "Ice King" of early nineteenth century America. It was Tudor who realized that ice, harvested from New England ponds and rivers...

Commonplace Book for the Week of January 27, 2019

Posted January 28, 2019 • 00:11:33

This is is an artist's imagining of what Washington's second inaugural address was like, not of his only visit to the Senate; if GW had a sword with...

Episode 95: The Captive Sea

Posted January 23, 2019 • 00:56:04

For hundreds of years, people living on the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea enslaved one another. Moslems from North Africa captured Italians, French,...

Episode 94: The Information-Literate Citizen

Posted January 16, 2019 • 00:58:49

Today's guest is Jenny L. Presnell, a Librarian of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Miami University of Ohio. She’s the author of The Information-Literate...

Episode 93: Mortal Republic

Posted January 9, 2019 • 01:27:37

When the Greek general Pyrrhus encountered the Roman Republic for the first time, he was deeply confused. Having served with Alexander the Great, and...