Historically Thinking

Historically Thinking

Historically Thinking

Latest Episodes

Thomas Jefferson and the Fight Against Slavery, with Cara Rogers Stevens

August 06, 2025

Spellbound: Molly Worthen on Charisma, Four Centuries of American History, and the Search for Meaning

July 30, 2025

The Great Museum of the Sea: A Human History of Shipwrecks, with James Delgado

July 23, 2025

Phantom Fleet: U-Boats, Codebreakers, and the Daring Capture of U-505, with Alexander Rose

July 16, 2025

Light on Darkness: The Untold Story of the Liturgy of the Western Christian Church, with Cosima Clara Gillhammer

July 09, 2025

Londoner, Lawyer, Humanist, Husband, Statesman, Saint: The Life of Thomas More, with Joanne Paul

July 02, 2025

The Accidental Tyrant: Kim Il-Sung’s Rise to Power, and How He Kept It, with Fyodor Tertitskiy

June 25, 2025

The untold story of how Kim Il-Sung went from obscurity to ruling North Korea

Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet, with John G. Turner

June 18, 2025

Revolution to Come: Dan Edelstein on Thinking About Revolution...and History

June 11, 2025

Dan Edelstein on Thinking About Revolution...and History

Stephen Aron and Barry Strauss on History, Engaging a Wider Public, and Intellectual Humility

June 04, 2025

This weeks episode features not one but two conversationswith Aron and Strausswhich, while it may sound like a jazz-age songwriting duo, is in fact a pairing of two distinguished historians: Stephe

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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