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 314: Peerless Among Princes

Posted April 20, 202301:13:47

In the early sixteenth century there emerged upon the world stage a cast of royal characters that could almost persuade the most hardened social historian...

Episode 313: Intellectual Humility, Social Psychologically Speaking

Posted April 17, 202300:51:16

This is the second of our continuing series on intellectual humility and historical thinking. Today I'm interested in exploring the social science of...

Episode 312: Gods of Thunder

Posted April 10, 202300:59:02

The medieval warm period began in the mid-tenth century, around and about  950 AD. A warmer climate led to higher agricultural yields, and in an agricultural...

Episode 311: Knowledge Towns

Posted April 6, 202300:55:15

From the beginning of the university in the middle ages, relations between town and gown–between students and citizens– began badly and got worse....

Episode 310: Intellectual Humility and the “Internet of Us”

Posted April 3, 202301:00:55

If we believed in click bait, we would title this "one weird historical thinking trick to save your country." But it's not, so you get a boring but...