Historically Thinking
Smart, lively conversations about the past—and how it helps us understand the world of today.
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Friday Reflection: What Is A University For?
A highly appropriate image: Herbert Baxter Adams, first Professor of History at Johns Hopkins, at the seminar table (which is still the Department of History’s seminar table), speaking with what seems a mixed collection of students and prof...
First Research University
Published October 28, 2026 | Episode 482
Introduction
At his death on December 24, 1873, the Baltimore merchant Johns Hopkins left $7 million—the largest philanthropic gift in American history to that point—to establish a university an...
(Saturday) Reflection: Find the Reader
A book barrow in Greendyke Street, Glasgow, c. 1916. Burrell Collection Photo Library/Glasgow Museums. Image, information, and permissions
Why This Conversation Matters
We know a great deal about how books are written, printed, and rea...
Friday Reflection: Eat Your Politics
A detail from A Society of Patriotic Ladies, at Edenton in North Carolina, attributed to Philip Dawe, 1775. This British satire ridiculed the fifty-one North Carolina women who pledged themselves to a non-importation agreement (Metropolitan...
The Bookshop
Published October 28, 2026 | Episode 481
Since the invention of the printing press, printers have published books. And ever since books have been published, they have been sold. Yet today’s guest observes that, remarkably enough, there is...
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