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 379: Philadelphia

Posted October 14, 202401:05:04

It is no longer the largest city in America, or the second largest, or even the fifth largest, but there are still those of us who love it. While modern...

Episode 378: Old New World

Posted October 7, 202401:11:34

For a few hundred years, the New World of the Americas was thought to be genuinely new. But in the course of the nineteenth century, Americans became...

Episode 377: BIG HISTORY (From the Archives)

Posted September 30, 2024

This podcast originally dropped on December 17, 2015.  If we had the reverb and the talent, we'd introduce this week's podcast like one of those guys...

Episode 376: Venerable Bede

Posted September 24, 202400:59:13

Generations of college students have probably imagined that his first name was Venerable, and his family name Bede. But Bede–that’s B-E-D-E–was...

Episode 375: Bible History

Posted September 16, 2024

It is the most influential book in the history of the world, a book that in many ways set the standard for what books would become, but it is also the...