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 363: Flying Saucers

Posted June 17, 202400:54:28

On June 24th, 1947, a private pilot and fire suppression equipment manufacturer named Kenneth Arnold was flying south of Mount Rainier, bound for Yakima,...

Episode 362: Out of One, Many

Posted June 2, 202401:04:33

Sometime around two and half millennia ago, a cluster of cities and states around the northeastern Mediterranean began to do amazing things. For some...

Episode 361: Book Makers

Posted May 27, 202400:57:30

Books have been made for over 530 years. That is, they have been created from raw materials– sometimes lovingly, sometimes not–printed, bound, and...

Intellectual Humility and Historical Thinking: Joseph Manning

Posted May 20, 202400:24:38

This is another of our series of conversations on intellectual humility and historical thinking.  With me today is Joseph Manning. He is the William...

Episode 360: City of Light, City of Darkness

Posted May 13, 202401:13:26

The Paris of the Belle Époque was a city divided by new and old conflicts–the tensions of modernity, and the schisms which had divided France since...