Historically Thinking

Historically Thinking

Al Zambone

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 396: Obscure Important Historian

Episode 396: Obscure Important Historian

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Feb 17, • 55:12

Episode 395: Summer of Fire and Blood

Episode 395: Summer of Fire and Blood

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Feb 10, • 1:10:09

Episode 394: Greek Revolution

Episode 394: Greek Revolution

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Feb 3, • 1:14:44

Episode 393: Lawless Republic

Episode 393: Lawless Republic

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Jan 27, • 1:10:07

Episode 392: Papa von Ranke

Episode 392: Papa von Ranke

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Jan 13, • 55:22

391: Roman Roads

391: Roman Roads

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Jan 7, • 0:00

Episode 390: Atlantic Ocean

Episode 390: Atlantic Ocean

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Dec 30, 2024 • 0:00

Episode 389: Indian Religions

Episode 389: Indian Religions

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Dec 23, 2024 • 1:06:01

Episode 388: Agent Zo

Episode 388: Agent Zo

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Dec 16, 2024 • 1:13:58

Episode 387: The Study

Episode 387: The Study

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Dec 9, 2024 • 1:06:54

Episode 386: College Sports

Episode 386: College Sports

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Dec 4, 2024 • 1:08:37

Episode 385: Golden Years

Episode 385: Golden Years

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Nov 25, 2024 • 55:33

Episode 384: Intent to Destroy

Episode 384: Intent to Destroy

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Nov 22, 2024 • 1:12:58

Episode 383: Quaker Founder

Episode 383: Quaker Founder

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Nov 18, 2024 • 1:12:06

Episode 381: Philosophy to the People

Episode 381: Philosophy to the People

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Nov 4, 2024 • 1:20:40

Episode 382: Women and the Reformations

Episode 382: Women and the Reformations

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Nov 3, 2024 • 1:20:40

Episode 380: Madrid

Episode 380: Madrid

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Oct 28, 2024 • 1:16:24

Episode 379: Philadelphia

Episode 379: Philadelphia

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Oct 14, 2024 • 1:05:04

Episode 378: Old New World

Episode 378: Old New World

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Oct 7, 2024 • 1:11:34

Episode 377: BIG HISTORY (From the Archives)

Episode 377: BIG HISTORY (From the Archives)

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Sep 30, 2024 • 0:00

Episode 376: Venerable Bede

Episode 376: Venerable Bede

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Sep 24, 2024 • 59:13

Episode 375: Bible History

Episode 375: Bible History

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Sep 16, 2024 • 0:00

Episode 374: Serpent in Eden

Episode 374: Serpent in Eden

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Sep 4, 2024 • 1:12:37

Episode 373: Spycrafte

Episode 373: Spycrafte

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Aug 30, 2024 • 1:06:23

Episode 372: Glorious Lessons

Episode 372: Glorious Lessons

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Aug 26, 2024 • 1:03:05

Episode 370: Enemies of All

Episode 370: Enemies of All

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Aug 19, 2024 • 1:19:34

Episode 371: Forming National Character

Episode 371: Forming National Character

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Aug 12, 2024 • 1:13:39

Episode 369: Horse

Episode 369: Horse

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Jul 29, 2024 • 0:00

Episode 368: Mosquito

Episode 368: Mosquito

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Jul 22, 2024 • 1:03:32

Episode 367: Bloody Tuesday

Episode 367: Bloody Tuesday

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Jul 15, 2024 • 1:08:51

Episode 366: Longing for Connection

Episode 366: Longing for Connection

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Jul 8, 2024 • 1:04:33

Episode 365: Chesapeake Bay Sea Monster

Episode 365: Chesapeake Bay Sea Monster

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Jul 1, 2024 • 1:11:52

Episode 364: House of Lilies

Episode 364: House of Lilies

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Jun 24, 2024 • 0:00

Episode 363: Flying Saucers

Episode 363: Flying Saucers

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Jun 17, 2024 • 54:28

Episode 362: Out of One, Many

Episode 362: Out of One, Many

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Jun 3, 2024 • 1:04:33

Episode 361: Book Makers

Episode 361: Book Makers

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May 27, 2024 • 57:30

Intellectual Humility and Historical Thinking: Joseph Manning

Intellectual Humility and Historical Thinking: Joseph Manning

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May 20, 2024 • 24:38

Episode 360: City of Light, City of Darkness

Episode 360: City of Light, City of Darkness

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May 13, 2024 • 1:13:26

Episode 359: Damascus Events

Episode 359: Damascus Events

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May 6, 2024 • 1:10:22

Episode 358: Narrative

Episode 358: Narrative

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Apr 29, 2024 • 1:11:30

Episode 357: Empire of Climate

Episode 357: Empire of Climate

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Apr 22, 2024 • 1:01:07

Episode 356: First Dark Ages?

Episode 356: First Dark Ages?

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Apr 15, 2024 • 1:07:13

Episode 355: Steam Powered

Episode 355: Steam Powered

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Apr 8, 2024 • 0:00

Episode 354: Collisions

Episode 354: Collisions

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Apr 1, 2024 • 1:09:15

Episode 353: Devils’ Rise

Episode 353: Devils’ Rise

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Mar 25, 2024 • 1:06:58

Intellectual Humility and Historical Thinking: Mark Carnes

Intellectual Humility and Historical Thinking: Mark Carnes

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Mar 14, 2024 • 51:43

351: Pox Romana

351: Pox Romana

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Mar 11, 2024 • 1:09:10

Episode 350: Revolutionary Age

Episode 350: Revolutionary Age

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Mar 4, 2024 • 1:09:07

Intellectual Humility and Historical Thinking: Leah Shopkow

Intellectual Humility and Historical Thinking: Leah Shopkow

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Feb 27, 2024 • 42:28

Episode 349: Fallingwater

Episode 349: Fallingwater

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Feb 26, 2024 • 1:19:54

Episode 348: Nasty Little War

Episode 348: Nasty Little War

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Feb 19, 2024 • 1:12:37

Intellectual Humility and Historical Thinking: Suzanne Marchand

Intellectual Humility and Historical Thinking: Suzanne Marchand

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Feb 2, 2024 • 29:37

Episode 347: Abolitionist Civil War

Episode 347: Abolitionist Civil War

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Jan 22, 2024 • 1:09:48

Episode 346: The World That Wasn’t

Episode 346: The World That Wasn’t

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Jan 15, 2024 • 1:15:14

Episode 345: Ecology of Nations

Episode 345: Ecology of Nations

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Jan 8, 2024 • 1:05:00

Intellectual Humility and Historical Thinking: Jonathan Zimmerman

Intellectual Humility and Historical Thinking: Jonathan Zimmerman

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Dec 21, 2023 • 24:21

An Introduction to Disorder

An Introduction to Disorder

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Dec 11, 2023 • 15:30

Episode 344: Founding Scoundrels

Episode 344: Founding Scoundrels

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Dec 4, 2023 • 1:06:43

Episode 343: Talking Anglo-Saxon

Episode 343: Talking Anglo-Saxon

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Nov 28, 2023 • 53:52

Episode 342: Fish Market

Episode 342: Fish Market

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Nov 13, 2023 • 59:57

Episode 341: The Forgers

Episode 341: The Forgers

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Nov 6, 2023 • 1:00:59

Episode 340: Price of Collapse

Episode 340: Price of Collapse

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Oct 30, 2023 • 51:13

Episode 339: Hollow Crown

Episode 339: Hollow Crown

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Oct 23, 2023 • 1:02:03

Episode 338: Rivals

Episode 338: Rivals

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Oct 16, 2023 • 1:03:26

Episode 337: Disorder

Episode 337: Disorder

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Oct 10, 2023 • 1:04:05

Episode 336: Tory’s Wife

Episode 336: Tory’s Wife

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Oct 2, 2023 • 1:01:35

Intellectual Humility Series: What’s Historical Thinking Got to Do With It?

Intellectual Humility Series: What’s Historical Thinking Got to Do With It?

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Sep 28, 2023 • 44:22

Episode 335: PAX

Episode 335: PAX

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Sep 25, 2023 • 58:19

Episode 334: Civic Bargain

Episode 334: Civic Bargain

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Sep 18, 2023 • 55:47

Episode 333: City of Echoes

Episode 333: City of Echoes

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Sep 11, 2023 • 1:12:13

Episode 332: Rome v. Persia

Episode 332: Rome v. Persia

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Sep 5, 2023 • 1:17:36

Episode 331: Red Hotel

Episode 331: Red Hotel

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Aug 28, 2023 • 1:10:24

Episode 330: His Majesty’s Airship

Episode 330: His Majesty’s Airship

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Aug 21, 2023 • 56:03

Episode 329: Nature’s Messenger

Episode 329: Nature’s Messenger

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Aug 14, 2023 • 56:11

Episode 328: Making Medieval Money

Episode 328: Making Medieval Money

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Aug 7, 2023 • 1:00:13

Episode 327: American South

Episode 327: American South

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Jul 31, 2023 • 1:05:45

Episode 326: The Professor and the Rough Rider

Episode 326: The Professor and the Rough Rider

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Jul 24, 2023 • 1:13:18

Episode 325: Brother Mauro’s Map

Episode 325: Brother Mauro’s Map

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Jul 17, 2023 • 55:04

Episode 324: Civil War Politics

Episode 324: Civil War Politics

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Jul 10, 2023 • 1:02:53

Episode 323: President Garfield

Episode 323: President Garfield

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Jul 7, 2023 • 1:02:59

Episode 322: Roman Walks

Episode 322: Roman Walks

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Jun 26, 2023 • 59:26

Episode 321: Amazing Iroquois

Episode 321: Amazing Iroquois

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Jun 19, 2023 • 1:05:18

Episode 320: The Devils Will Get No Rest

Episode 320: The Devils Will Get No Rest

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Jun 15, 2023 • 1:01:19

Episode 319: Working College

Episode 319: Working College

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Jun 5, 2023 • 55:56

Episode 318: Speaking Yiddish to Chickens

Episode 318: Speaking Yiddish to Chickens

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May 30, 2023 • 56:31

Episode 317: Third Reich Village

Episode 317: Third Reich Village

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May 25, 2023 • 1:03:56

Episode 316: Redcoat’s Son

Episode 316: Redcoat’s Son

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May 15, 2023 • 55:05

Episode 315: Street Food

Episode 315: Street Food

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May 8, 2023 • 1:04:06

Episode 314: Peerless Among Princes

Episode 314: Peerless Among Princes

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Apr 20, 2023 • 1:13:47

Episode 313: Intellectual Humility, Social Psychologically Speaking

Episode 313: Intellectual Humility, Social Psychologically Speaking

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Apr 17, 2023 • 51:16

Episode 312: Gods of Thunder

Episode 312: Gods of Thunder

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Apr 10, 2023 • 59:02

Episode 311: Knowledge Towns

Episode 311: Knowledge Towns

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Apr 6, 2023 • 55:15

Episode 310: Intellectual Humility and the “Internet of Us”

Episode 310: Intellectual Humility and the “Internet of Us”

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Apr 3, 2023 • 1:00:55

Episode 309: What’s the Use of Your Humanities Degree in an AI World?

Episode 309: What’s the Use of Your Humanities Degree in an AI World?

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Mar 27, 2023 • 56:13

Episode 308: Breakfast Cereal

Episode 308: Breakfast Cereal

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Mar 20, 2023 • 56:46

Episode 307: Eisenhower’s Guerrillas

Episode 307: Eisenhower’s Guerrillas

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Mar 13, 2023 • 1:07:06

Episode 306: Long Walk

Episode 306: Long Walk

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Mar 6, 2023 • 1:04:28

Episode 305: Degrading Equality

Episode 305: Degrading Equality

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Feb 27, 2023 • 1:18:55

Episode 304: Mass Expulsion

Episode 304: Mass Expulsion

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Feb 20, 2023 • 1:03:56

Episode 303: Victorian Jacobites

Episode 303: Victorian Jacobites

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Feb 13, 2023 • 53:39

Episode 302: Tudor England

Episode 302: Tudor England

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Feb 6, 2023 • 1:02:37

Episode 301: Wandering Army

Episode 301: Wandering Army

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Jan 23, 2023 • 1:08:43

Episode 300: Wild Problems

Episode 300: Wild Problems

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Jan 9, 2023 • 1:08:42

Episode 299: The Good Country

Episode 299: The Good Country

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Jan 5, 2023 • 1:07:42

Episode 298: How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon

Episode 298: How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon

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Dec 19, 2022 • 1:03:14

Episode 297: Reign of Arrows

Episode 297: Reign of Arrows

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Dec 12, 2022 • 1:17:40

Episode 296: Mercy

Episode 296: Mercy

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Dec 5, 2022 • 57:48

Episode 295: New England Fashion

Episode 295: New England Fashion

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Nov 28, 2022 • 1:27:53

Episode 294: Black Suffrage

Episode 294: Black Suffrage

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Nov 21, 2022 • 54:38

Episode 293: Brilliant Commodity

Episode 293: Brilliant Commodity

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Nov 14, 2022 • 57:17

Episode 292: Mutiny!

Episode 292: Mutiny!

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Nov 7, 2022 • 1:02:57

Episode 291: True Blue

Episode 291: True Blue

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Oct 31, 2022 • 1:04:26

Episode 290: Oh, Dakota!

Episode 290: Oh, Dakota!

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Oct 27, 2022 • 53:14

Episode 289: Peace and Friendship in the American West

Episode 289: Peace and Friendship in the American West

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Oct 24, 2022 • 1:02:25

Episode 288: The American Revolution in Hapsburg Lands

Episode 288: The American Revolution in Hapsburg Lands

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Oct 20, 2022 • 1:03:02

Episode 287: The Hessians are Coming!

Episode 287: The Hessians are Coming!

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Oct 17, 2022 • 1:12:49

Episode 286: Weavers, Scribes, and Kings

Episode 286: Weavers, Scribes, and Kings

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Oct 13, 2022 • 1:19:13

Episode 285: Finding Agatha Christie

Episode 285: Finding Agatha Christie

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Oct 10, 2022 • 1:03:12

Episode 284: The Greatest Russian General, in War and Peace

Episode 284: The Greatest Russian General, in War and Peace

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Oct 3, 2022 • 1:08:00

Episode 283: Two Houses, Two Kingdoms

Episode 283: Two Houses, Two Kingdoms

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Sep 29, 2022 • 1:10:46

Episode 282: Griffins, Greek Fire, and Ancient Poisons

Episode 282: Griffins, Greek Fire, and Ancient Poisons

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Sep 26, 2022 • 50:39

Episode 281: The Great Atlantic Freedom Conspiracy

Episode 281: The Great Atlantic Freedom Conspiracy

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Sep 16, 2022 • 1:04:20

Episode 280: Thinking about Historically Thinking

Episode 280: Thinking about Historically Thinking

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Sep 14, 2022 • 1:06:58

Episode 279: Count the Dead

Episode 279: Count the Dead

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Sep 8, 2022 • 59:45

Episode 278: Healing a Divided Nation

Episode 278: Healing a Divided Nation

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Sep 5, 2022 • 58:54

Episode 277: Saving Freud

Episode 277: Saving Freud

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Aug 29, 2022 • 1:03:53

Episode 276: The Secret Syllabus

Episode 276: The Secret Syllabus

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Aug 22, 2022 • 1:05:30

Episode 275: The World the Plague Made

Episode 275: The World the Plague Made

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Aug 8, 2022 • 1:04:50

Episode 274: Afghan Crucible

Episode 274: Afghan Crucible

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Aug 1, 2022 • 1:09:39

Episode 273: Founder of Modern Poland

Episode 273: Founder of Modern Poland

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Jul 25, 2022 • 1:50:25

Episode 272: Germans without Borders

Episode 272: Germans without Borders

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Jul 18, 2022 • 1:03:48

Episode 271: The Man at the Center of Two Revolutions

Episode 271: The Man at the Center of Two Revolutions

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Jul 4, 2022 • 1:10:49

Episode 270: Great Tomatoes of World History

Episode 270: Great Tomatoes of World History

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Jun 27, 2022 • 1:13:17

Episode 269: Free People of Color

Episode 269: Free People of Color

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Jun 20, 2022 • 47:03

Episode 268: Feeding Washington’s Army

Episode 268: Feeding Washington’s Army

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Jun 13, 2022 • 1:13:42

Episode 267: African Founders

Episode 267: African Founders

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Jun 6, 2022 • 53:20

Episode 266: Happy Dreams of Liberty

Episode 266: Happy Dreams of Liberty

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May 30, 2022 • 1:02:21

How to Win a Struggle for Power

How to Win a Struggle for Power

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May 23, 2022 • 1:01:51

Episode 264: The Persian Version

Episode 264: The Persian Version

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May 16, 2022 • 1:14:10

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