Historically Thinking

Recent Episodes

Episode 98: A Tour Through the Mind of a Historical Novelist

Posted February 13, 2019 • 00:57:46

Christian Cameron has written a lot of novels. A lot. He writes novels faster than some people can read them. He writes so many novels that it's easier...

Commonplace Book for the Week of February 10, 2019

Posted February 12, 2019 • 00:08:55

An Inventory of the Skills of Historical Thinking The Essential Skill Comprehension: What do the documents say and mean? Accurately reconstructs the...

Episode 97: The College Tuition Problem

Posted February 6, 2019 • 01:00:00

Well, of course college tuition is a problem--everyone seems to know that. And there are of course lots of reasons why this has occurred. But as with...

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...