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 245: Queens of Jerusalem

Posted January 31, 202201:02:03

For nearly a century after the First Crusade captured Jerusalem, that ancient city became the nucleus of a several kingdoms and principalities established...

Episode 244: Hitler’s First One Hundred Days

Posted January 27, 202201:04:47

On January 30, 1933, German President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler as the Chancellor of Germany. Occurring simultaneously with Franklin...

Episode 243: The Story Paradox

Posted January 24, 202200:57:21

Storytelling, writes my guest Jonathan Gottschall, is the way in which people have for thousands of years not only bound themselves together into communities,...

Behind the Book: Down the Road to the Cedars

Posted January 20, 202200:45:51

This is the first in a new series of podcasts. Long time listeners will remember that when my book Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life was published,...

Episode 242: Was Abraham Lincoln a Racist?

Posted January 17, 202201:00:48

In a eulogy to Abraham Lincoln delivered on June 1, 1865, Frederick Douglass posed the question “what was Lincoln to the colored people or they to...