Historically Thinking

By Al Zambone

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Subscribers: 114
Reviews: 2
Episodes: 300

Jeff
 Feb 14, 2024
A very well done show, thoughtful and well researched.

Aaron
 Aug 29, 2020
One of my absolute favourite podcasts. The interviews are so engaging and dig deep into such a range of fascinating topics. Can't recommend it highly enough!

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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 rigor, but also intellectual humility. Join Al Zambone, author of Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life, as he talks with historians and other professionals who cultivate the craft of historical thinking.

Episode Date
Thomas Jefferson and the Fight Against Slavery, with Cara Rogers Stevens
Aug 06, 2025
Spellbound: Molly Worthen on Charisma, Four Centuries of American History, and the Search for Meaning
Jul 30, 2025
The Great Museum of the Sea: A Human History of Shipwrecks, with James Delgado
Jul 23, 2025
Phantom Fleet: U-Boats, Codebreakers, and the Daring Capture of U-505, with Alexander Rose
Jul 16, 2025
Light on Darkness: The Untold Story of the Liturgy of the Western Christian Church, with Cosima Clara Gillhammer
Jul 09, 2025
Londoner, Lawyer, Humanist, Husband, Statesman, Saint: The Life of Thomas More, with Joanne Paul
Jul 02, 2025
The Accidental Tyrant: Kim Il-Sung’s Rise to Power, and How He Kept It, with Fyodor Tertitskiy
Jun 25, 2025
Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet, with John G. Turner
Jun 18, 2025
Revolution to Come: Dan Edelstein on Thinking About Revolution...and History
Jun 11, 2025
Stephen Aron and Barry Strauss on History, Engaging a Wider Public, and Intellectual Humility
Jun 04, 2025
Episode 406: Rogue Agent
May 05, 2025
Episode 405: Free Creations
Apr 28, 2025
Episode 404: Intellectual Humility, with Mikaberidze and Nelson
Apr 21, 2025
Episode 403: Visionary Histories
Apr 14, 2025
Episode 402: Broken Altars
Mar 31, 2025
Episode 401: Rot
Mar 23, 2025
Episode 400: Talking Cure
Mar 17, 2025
Episode 399: Replicating History
Mar 10, 2025
Episode 398: The Celts
Mar 03, 2025
Episode 397: Mutiny on the Black Prince
Feb 24, 2025
Episode 396: Obscure Important Historian
Feb 17, 2025
Episode 395: Summer of Fire and Blood
Feb 10, 2025
Episode 394: Greek Revolution
Feb 03, 2025
Episode 393: Lawless Republic
Jan 27, 2025
Episode 392: Papa von Ranke
Jan 13, 2025
391: Roman Roads
Jan 07, 2025
Episode 390: Atlantic Ocean
Dec 30, 2024
Episode 389: Indian Religions
Dec 23, 2024
Episode 388: Agent Zo
Dec 16, 2024
Episode 387: The Study
Dec 09, 2024
Episode 386: College Sports
Dec 04, 2024
Episode 385: Golden Years
Nov 25, 2024
Episode 384: Intent to Destroy
Nov 22, 2024
Episode 383: Quaker Founder
Nov 18, 2024
Episode 382: Women and the Reformations
Nov 08, 2024
Episode 381: Philosophy to the People
Nov 04, 2024
Episode 380: Madrid
Oct 28, 2024
Episode 379: Philadelphia
Oct 14, 2024
Episode 378: Old New World
Oct 07, 2024
Episode 377: BIG HISTORY (From the Archives)
Sep 30, 2024
Episode 376: Venerable Bede
Sep 24, 2024
Episode 375: Bible History
Sep 16, 2024
Episode 374: Serpent in Eden
Sep 04, 2024
Episode 373: Spycrafte
Aug 30, 2024
Episode 372: Glorious Lessons
Aug 26, 2024
Episode 370: Enemies of All
Aug 19, 2024
Episode 371: Forming National Character
Aug 12, 2024
Episode 369: Horse
Jul 29, 2024
Episode 368: Mosquito
Jul 22, 2024
Episode 367: Bloody Tuesday
Jul 15, 2024
Episode 366: Longing for Connection
Jul 08, 2024
Episode 365: Chesapeake Bay Sea Monster
Jul 01, 2024
Episode 363: Flying Saucers
Jun 17, 2024
Episode 362: Out of One, Many
Jun 03, 2024
Episode 361: Book Makers
May 27, 2024
Intellectual Humility and Historical Thinking: Joseph Manning
May 20, 2024
Episode 360: City of Light, City of Darkness
May 13, 2024
Episode 359: Damascus Events
May 06, 2024
Episode 358: Narrative
Apr 29, 2024
Episode 357: Empire of Climate
Apr 22, 2024
Episode 356: First Dark Ages?
Apr 15, 2024
Episode 355: Steam Powered
Apr 08, 2024
Episode 354: Collisions
Apr 01, 2024
Episode 353: Devils’ Rise
Mar 25, 2024
Intellectual Humility and Historical Thinking: Mark Carnes
Mar 14, 2024
351: Pox Romana
Mar 11, 2024
Episode 350: Revolutionary Age
Mar 04, 2024
Intellectual Humility and Historical Thinking: Leah Shopkow
Feb 27, 2024
Episode 349: Fallingwater
Feb 26, 2024
Episode 348: Nasty Little War
Feb 19, 2024
Intellectual Humility and Historical Thinking: Suzanne Marchand
Feb 02, 2024
Episode 347: Abolitionist Civil War
Jan 22, 2024
Episode 346: The World That Wasn’t
Jan 15, 2024
Episode 345: Ecology of Nations
Jan 08, 2024
Intellectual Humility and Historical Thinking: Jonathan Zimmerman
Dec 21, 2023
An Introduction to Disorder
Dec 11, 2023
Episode 344: Founding Scoundrels
Dec 04, 2023
Episode 343: Talking Anglo-Saxon
Nov 28, 2023
Episode 342: Fish Market
Nov 13, 2023
Episode 341: The Forgers
Nov 06, 2023
Episode 340: Price of Collapse
Oct 30, 2023
Episode 339: Hollow Crown
Oct 23, 2023
Episode 338: Rivals
Oct 16, 2023
Episode 337: Disorder
Oct 10, 2023
Episode 336: Tory’s Wife
Oct 02, 2023
Intellectual Humility Series: What’s Historical Thinking Got to Do With It?
Sep 28, 2023
Episode 335: PAX
Sep 25, 2023
Episode 334: Civic Bargain
Sep 18, 2023
Episode 333: City of Echoes
Sep 11, 2023
Episode 332: Rome v. Persia
Sep 05, 2023
Episode 331: Red Hotel
Aug 28, 2023
Episode 330: His Majesty’s Airship
Aug 21, 2023
Episode 329: Nature’s Messenger
Aug 14, 2023
Episode 328: Making Medieval Money
Aug 07, 2023
Episode 327: American South
Jul 31, 2023
Episode 326: The Professor and the Rough Rider
Jul 24, 2023
Episode 325: Brother Mauro’s Map
Jul 17, 2023
Episode 324: Civil War Politics
Jul 10, 2023
Episode 323: President Garfield
Jul 07, 2023
Episode 322: Roman Walks
Jun 26, 2023
Episode 321: Amazing Iroquois
Jun 19, 2023
Episode 320: The Devils Will Get No Rest
Jun 15, 2023
Episode 319: Working College
Jun 05, 2023
Episode 318: Speaking Yiddish to Chickens
May 30, 2023
Episode 317: Third Reich Village
May 25, 2023
Episode 316: Redcoat’s Son
May 15, 2023
Episode 315: Street Food
May 08, 2023
Episode 314: Peerless Among Princes
Apr 20, 2023
Episode 313: Intellectual Humility, Social Psychologically Speaking
Apr 17, 2023
Episode 312: Gods of Thunder
Apr 10, 2023
Episode 311: Knowledge Towns
Apr 06, 2023
Episode 310: Intellectual Humility and the “Internet of Us”
Apr 03, 2023
Episode 309: What’s the Use of Your Humanities Degree in an AI World?
Mar 27, 2023
Episode 308: Breakfast Cereal
Mar 20, 2023
Episode 307: Eisenhower’s Guerrillas
Mar 13, 2023
Episode 306: Long Walk
Mar 06, 2023
Episode 305: Degrading Equality
Feb 27, 2023
Episode 304: Mass Expulsion
Feb 20, 2023
Episode 303: Victorian Jacobites
Feb 13, 2023
Episode 302: Tudor England
Feb 06, 2023
Episode 301: Wandering Army
Jan 23, 2023
Episode 300: Wild Problems
Jan 09, 2023
Episode 299: The Good Country
Jan 05, 2023
Episode 298: How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon
Dec 19, 2022
Episode 297: Reign of Arrows
Dec 12, 2022
Episode 296: Mercy
Dec 05, 2022
Episode 295: New England Fashion
Nov 28, 2022
Episode 294: Black Suffrage
Nov 21, 2022
Episode 293: Brilliant Commodity
Nov 14, 2022
Episode 292: Mutiny!
Nov 07, 2022
Episode 291: True Blue
Oct 31, 2022
Episode 290: Oh, Dakota!
Oct 27, 2022
Episode 289: Peace and Friendship in the American West
Oct 24, 2022
Episode 288: The American Revolution in Hapsburg Lands
Oct 20, 2022
Episode 287: The Hessians are Coming!
Oct 17, 2022
Episode 286: Weavers, Scribes, and Kings
Oct 13, 2022
Episode 285: Finding Agatha Christie
Oct 10, 2022
Episode 284: The Greatest Russian General, in War and Peace
Oct 03, 2022
Episode 283: Two Houses, Two Kingdoms
Sep 29, 2022
Episode 282: Griffins, Greek Fire, and Ancient Poisons
Sep 26, 2022
Episode 281: The Great Atlantic Freedom Conspiracy
Sep 16, 2022
Episode 280: Thinking about Historically Thinking
Sep 14, 2022
Episode 279: Count the Dead
Sep 08, 2022
Episode 278: Healing a Divided Nation
Sep 05, 2022
Episode 277: Saving Freud
Aug 29, 2022
Episode 276: The Secret Syllabus
Aug 22, 2022
Episode 275: The World the Plague Made
Aug 08, 2022
Episode 274: Afghan Crucible
Aug 01, 2022
Episode 273: Founder of Modern Poland
Jul 25, 2022
Episode 272: Germans without Borders
Jul 18, 2022
Episode 271: The Man at the Center of Two Revolutions
Jul 04, 2022
Episode 270: Great Tomatoes of World History
Jun 27, 2022
Episode 269: Free People of Color
Jun 20, 2022
Episode 268: Feeding Washington’s Army
Jun 13, 2022
Episode 267: African Founders
Jun 06, 2022
Episode 266: Happy Dreams of Liberty
May 30, 2022
Episode 265: How to Win a Power Struggle
May 23, 2022
Episode 264: The Persian Version
May 16, 2022
Episode 263: The Man Who Understood Democracy (Part Two)
May 09, 2022
Episode 262: The Man Who Understood Democracy (Part One)
May 02, 2022
Episode 261: The Long Land War
Apr 25, 2022
Episode 260: The Making of History
Apr 18, 2022
Episode 259: In Praise of Good Bookstores
Apr 11, 2022
Episode 258: The Pursuit of Perfection
Apr 04, 2022
Episode 257: Inventing a New World Order
Mar 28, 2022
Episode 256: The War That Made the Roman Empire
Mar 21, 2022
Episode 255: Denmark Vesey’s Bible
Mar 14, 2022
Episode 254: Saving Yellowstone
Mar 07, 2022
Episode 253: Beer!
Mar 03, 2022
Episode 252: The Great War and Modern Medicine
Feb 28, 2022
Episode 251: The History of Technology, from Leonardo to the Internet
Feb 24, 2022
Episode 250: Amber Waves of Grain
Feb 21, 2022
Behind the Book: The Family That Lost America
Feb 17, 2022
Episode 249: Postcards from the Past
Feb 14, 2022
Episode 248: Athens
Feb 10, 2022
Episode 247: The Greeks
Feb 07, 2022
Episode 246: The Rule of Laws
Feb 03, 2022
Episode 245: Queens of Jerusalem
Jan 31, 2022
Episode 244: Hitler’s First One Hundred Days
Jan 27, 2022
Episode 243: The Story Paradox
Jan 24, 2022
Behind the Book: Down the Road to the Cedars
Jan 20, 2022
Episode 242: Was Abraham Lincoln a Racist?
Jan 17, 2022
Episode 238: Generations of Reason
Jan 13, 2022
Episode 241: Doing the Research
Jan 10, 2022
Episode 240: Empire and Jihad
Jan 03, 2022
Episode 239: The Chicken and the Egg, or, What Keeps (Some) Historians Awake at Night
Dec 27, 2021
Episode 237: A Brave and Cunning Prince, or, Following the Evidence Where It Leads
Dec 13, 2021
Episode 236: Let Me Put That Into Context
Dec 07, 2021
Bonus Episode: The Higher Ed Scene, with Mark Salisbury
Dec 01, 2021
Episode 235: The Great Little Madison
Nov 18, 2021
Episode 234: The Fall of Robespierre
Nov 15, 2021
Episode 233: Generation Myth
Nov 08, 2021
Episode 232: Talking About Each Other’s Gods
Nov 01, 2021
Episode 231: Multiple Perspectives, or, Seeing the Same Thing in Different Ways
Oct 28, 2021
Episode 230: What the Amish Can Do For Us
Oct 25, 2021
Episode 229: Mr. Jefferson and His University
Oct 21, 2021
Episode 228: The Intellectual Life in Difficult Circumstances
Oct 18, 2021
Episode 227: The First French Revolution
Oct 11, 2021
Episode 226: Adventures Through Time, with Dominic Sandbrook
Oct 04, 2021
Episode 225: Noble Volunteers, or, The British Soldier in the American Revolution
Sep 27, 2021
Episode 224: Disruption
Sep 20, 2021
Episode 223: Climbing Denali
Sep 13, 2021
Episode 222: The Chemistry of Fear
Sep 09, 2021
Episode 221: Prohibition Wasn’t American
Sep 06, 2021
Episode 220: From the Archive, The First Three Weeks of College
Sep 01, 2021
Episode 219: The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome
Aug 23, 2021
Episode 218: To Her Credit
Aug 16, 2021
Episode 217: When Money Talks
Aug 09, 2021
Episode 216: The Appalachian Trail
Aug 02, 2021
Episode 215: The Other Face of Battle
Jul 26, 2021
Episode 214: Just a Few Questions
Jul 19, 2021
Episode 213: From Rebel to Ruler
Jul 12, 2021
Episode 212: The Perennial Russian Pivot to Asia
Jul 08, 2021
Episode 211: The [Quiet] Russian Revolution
Jun 23, 2021
Episode 210: Very Personal History
Jun 17, 2021
Episode 209: Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith
Jun 09, 2021
Episode 208: What’s Love Got to Do With It?
Jun 02, 2021
Episode 207: After the Black Death
May 26, 2021
Episode 206: Sick and Tired
May 12, 2021
Episode 205: Can There Ever Be History for the Common Good?
May 05, 2021
Episode 204: The Peace Treaty of 1916 That Didn’t Happen
Apr 28, 2021
Episode 203: The Saint, the Count, and Sourcing (Historical Thinking Series)
Apr 08, 2021
Episode 202: Talking History, Podcasting, and the Age of Jackson, with Daniel N. Gullotta
Mar 31, 2021
Episode 201: Isaac Newton, After Gravity
Mar 24, 2021
Episode 200: Connecting, from an English Portrait to Galileo and Beyond, with J.L. Heilbron
Mar 17, 2021
Episode 199: George Washington, Politician
Mar 10, 2021
Bonus: Comprehending Dante, with Guy Raffa
Mar 05, 2021
Episode 198: American Heretic
Mar 03, 2021
Episode 197: An Independent Woman of the Eighteenth Century
Feb 24, 2021
From the Archives: Episode 39: The Skills of Historical Thinking
Jan 29, 2021
Episode 196: Comprehending What We Read (Historical Thinking Series)
Jan 27, 2021
Episode 195: Battling for the Classics
Jan 20, 2021
Episode 194: If This Be Treason, Make the Most of It
Jan 13, 2021
Bonus: Mark Salisbury on Higher Ed at the End of 2020, or Continuing Higher COVIDucation
Jan 12, 2021
Episode 193: The Plot to Bring Down the Soviet Revolution
Jan 06, 2021
Episode 192: Distracted, or, How to be Attentive
Dec 30, 2020
Episode 191: Pacifist Prophet
Dec 23, 2020
Episode 190: Porcelain
Dec 16, 2020
Episode 189: Keeping in Time
Dec 09, 2020
Episode 188: The Amateur Hour, or, A History of Why College Professors Can’t Teach
Dec 02, 2020
Episode 187: The Light Ages
Nov 25, 2020
Episode 186: Think More Like Shakespeare
Nov 18, 2020
Episode 185: The Anvil and Forge That Created the Modern World
Nov 11, 2020
Episode 184: This is Sparta
Nov 04, 2020
Episode 183: Dante’s Bones, or, A History of the Idea of Italy
Oct 28, 2020
Episode 182: Philip of Macedonia, and Son
Oct 21, 2020
Episode 181: Westward to Zion
Oct 14, 2020
Episode 180: Great State, or, China and the World since 1250
Oct 07, 2020
Episode 179: What’s the Good of Ambition, or, Socrates and Alcibiades
Sep 30, 2020
Episode 178: Medieval Mediterranean Slavery
Sep 23, 2020
Episode 177: The Forgotten City
Sep 16, 2020
Episode 176: Men on Horseback, or, What Charisma Has To Do With It
Sep 09, 2020
Episode 175: American Dorm
Sep 02, 2020
Bonus Episode: The Virus and the Dorm, or, Higher COVIDucation Part One
Aug 31, 2020
Episode 174: Polybius of Megalopolis
Aug 26, 2020
Episode 173: Thinking is Human, or, Lost in Thought
Aug 19, 2020
Episode 172: The Last Voyage of the Whaling Ship Progress
Aug 12, 2020
Episode 171: The Gunpowder Revolution, or, China and the West
Aug 05, 2020
Episode 170: Bound by War, or, the Philippines and the United States in the First Pacific Century
Jul 29, 2020
Episode 169: The History of the Future
Jul 22, 2020
Episode 167: How Black Americans Created American Citizenship
Jul 16, 2020
Episode 166: Beauty and Terror, or, the Italian Renaissance Re-envisioned
Jul 08, 2020
Episode 165: Western Civ Has Got to…
Jul 01, 2020
Episode 164: The Open Sea, or, the Economies of the Ancient Mediterranean
Jun 24, 2020
Episode 163: The First Martyr of the American Revolution
Jun 17, 2020
Episode 162: The First Scottish Enlightenment
Jun 10, 2020
Episode 161: In the Matter of Nat Turner
Jun 03, 2020
Episode 160: The Original Refugees
May 27, 2020
Bonus Episode: Okinawa, the Crucible of Hell
May 23, 2020
Episode 159: Other People’s Money
May 20, 2020
Episode 158: Priests of the Law
May 13, 2020
Episode 157: They Knew They Were Pilgrims
May 06, 2020
Episode 155: The Second World War, or, the Napoleonic Wars
Apr 29, 2020
Episode 156: Stories Told by Trees
Apr 22, 2020
Episode 154: The Cabinet
Apr 08, 2020
Episode 153: Thinking Historically About the Surveillance State
Apr 02, 2020
Episode 152: Modern Dance and Modern America, or, Martha Graham and the Cold War
Mar 26, 2020
Episode 151: Time to Eat the Historically Thinking
Mar 19, 2020
Episode 150: The Science of History, or, the Thought of Giambattista Vico
Mar 10, 2020
Episode 149: Edges Are Interesting, or, a History of Eastern Europe
Mar 04, 2020
Episode 148: Land of Tears, or, the Exploitation of the Congo
Feb 26, 2020
From the Archive: Blood Letters
Feb 20, 2020
From the Archive: Presidential History
Feb 12, 2020
Episode 146: The Historically Informed Investment Portfolio; or, the Historian as Financial Analyst
Feb 05, 2020
Episode 145: The Newburgh Conspiracy
Jan 29, 2020
Episode 144: The French Revolution
Jan 22, 2020
Episode 143: Horace Greeley, American Editor, or, the Method in His Madness
Jan 15, 2020
Episode 142: Cloak and Gondola, or, on Secret Service for the Republic of Venice
Jan 08, 2020
Episode 141: Stolen, or, a Journey on the Reverse Underground Railroad
Dec 30, 2019
Episode 140: Christmas Feasting, or, Meat, Sugar, Alcohol
Dec 23, 2019
Episode 139: Dominion, or, How Christianity Changed Everything
Dec 18, 2019
Episode 138: Music, a Subversive History
Dec 11, 2019
Episode 137: The Decline and Fall of the Adams Family
Dec 04, 2019
Episode 136: Thanksgiving and Terroir, or, the South You Never Ate
Nov 27, 2019
Episode 135: Timefulness, or, Where Geology and History Meet
Nov 20, 2019
Episode 134: Inventing Disaster, or, the Creation of a Culture of Calamity
Nov 13, 2019
Episode 133: Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers, or, Rabies in the City
Nov 06, 2019
Episode 132: Armies of Deliverance, or, a New Interpretation of the American Civil War
Oct 30, 2019
Episode 131: Red Meat Republic, or, the American Beef Economy of the Late Nineteenth Century
Oct 23, 2019
Episode 130: What’s the Point of College, or, Why There Should Be No Business Majors on Campus
Oct 16, 2019