Historically Thinking
Smart, lively conversations about the past—and how it helps us understand the world of today.
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Friday Reflection: A World That Might Not Have Been
Why This Conversation Matters
We tend to treat political maps as if they were geological formations. France is France. India is India. Singapore is Singapore. The world appears divided naturally into sovereign states, each with its flag...
Out of Chaos
Originally published on September 2, 2027 (Episode 473).
Introduction
At the beginning of the twentieth century many thinkers, activists, and politicians would have been astonished if you told them that at the end of that century the...
Friday Reflection: Necessary Oddball
Operation Union II Team, August 2nd, 1944: From the left, Sgt. John Bodnar, Maj. Peter J. Ortiz, Sgt. Robert LaSalle, Sgt. Fred Brunner, Capt. Frank Coolidge, and Sgt. Jack Risler (From the Peter Ortiz Collection (COLL/1118) at the Archives...
Ortiz’s War
Originally published on August 26, 2027 (Episode 472).
Introduction
Peter J. Ortiz was one of the most decorated United States Marines of the Second World War—and he served in the European Theater. In fact, his service was almost entir...
Friday Reflection: The Uses of Myth
Why This Conversation Matters
The Trojan War has occupied an unusual place in Western civilization for nearly three thousand years. It is simultaneously history and literature, archaeology and myth, memory and imagination. Every generat...
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"The past isn't content–it's a way of thinking."
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