Todays guest in our series of conversations on intellectual humility and historical thinking is Leah Shopkow, Professor of History at Indiana University in Bloomington. She is a historian of the Midd

Fallingwater, perched above Bear Run in southwestern Pennsylvania is Frank Lloyd Wrights masterpiece, a house perhaps as recognizable as any other in the United Statesand it's not even on the nickel

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 of Allied troops began to land in ports in Russias

In our latest in the series of conversations on intellectual humility and historical thinking, my interlocutor is Suzanne Marchand. She is Boyd Professor at Louisiana State University. Her interests a

Following the outbreak of the American Civil War, the abolitionist movement underwent an astonishing transformation, which would in time alter the direction of the war, the shape of the postwar sett

Henry Wallace was an Iowan, an accomplished geneticist who hybridized corn; an entrepreneur who co-founded Pioneer Hi-Bred to produce seed, still an agricultural behemoth; the third-generation of edi

Some animalslike beavers, nesting ants, bees, and humansactively reshape their environments to make them more favorable for their own species. My guest today believes that the same is also true of

This is the first of my interviews with historians touching on questions of intellectual humility and historical thinking. Today conversation is with Jonathan Zimmerman. He is the Judy and Howard Berk

Were going to do something a little differently in todays episode of Historically Thinking, in that it's not an episode ofHistorically Thinking. - Instead I wanted to share with you a teaser of a p

Founders is a term that we typically use to refer to just a few menusually the first four Presidents of the United States, plus Ben Franklin andnowadaysAlexander Hamilton. We think of them as typ