So, said an uncle to a student of mine, youre getting a history degree, huh? When you graduate, you gonna get a job in a history store? - The numbers show that the uncles jab is winning. As friend

Everything has a history, even breakfast cereal. And that history is involved with the history of grainwhich means it is involved with both the history of agriculture and urbanism; how humans mark ti

In August 1944, Fred Bailey jumped out of a perfectly good airplane and parachuted into Nazi-occupied France, landing in a disused brickyard. Growing up he had been a sickly child with a heart condit

In October 1569, a captain of a French ship off the northern coast of Nova Scotia was summoned on deck. Alongside was a canoe, and in it were three EnglishmenDavid Ingram, Richard Browne, and Richard

In 1835, Oberlin College in Ohio determined that it would admit black students. A very few other colleges did at the time, but Oberlin was unique in that it chose to do so as an explicit matter of col

At the start of the twelfth century, writes Rowan Dorin, western European rulers almost never resorted to the collective expulsions of wrongdoers from their domains; ecclesiastical authorities evi

On a January night in 1897, a crowded Episcopal church in Philadelphia was the stage for a curious ceremony. In the Church of the Evangelists, located in south Society Hill just ten or so blocks from

On 11 October 1537, Henry VIII finally received the son for which he had been waiting for decades. The day before the future Edward VI was born, friars, priests, livery companies, and the mayor and al

On May 11th, 1745, the British Army went into battle against the army of France near the village of Fontenoy, in what is now Belgium. 15,000 British soldiers marched forward bearing not only their mu

Welcome to Episode 300 of Historically Thinking! - Design theorists popularized the idea of tame problems and wicked problems. Tame problems are answers to questions like how to get to Chicag