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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Intellectual Humility and Historical Thinking: Leah Shopkow

Posted February 27, 202400:42:28

Today’s guest in our series of conversations on intellectual humility and historical thinking is Leah Shopkow, Professor of History at Indiana University...

Episode 349: Fallingwater

Posted February 26, 202401:19:54

Fallingwater, perched above Bear Run in southwestern Pennsylvania is Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece, a house perhaps as recognizable as any other...

Episode 348: Nasty Little War

Posted February 19, 202401:12:37

In the summer of 1918, hoping to somehow re engage the Russians in the First World War as the Allied offensive on the western front began, thousands...

Intellectual Humility and Historical Thinking: Suzanne Marchand

Posted February 2, 202400:29:37

In our latest in the series of conversations on intellectual humility and historical thinking, my interlocutor is Suzanne Marchand. She is Boyd Professor...

Episode 347: Abolitionist Civil War

Posted January 22, 202401:09:48

Following the outbreak of the American Civil War, the abolitionist movement underwent an “astonishing transformation”, which would in time alter...