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December 2025

Friday Reflection: First-Person Historical
Amy Stallings on Interpreting History from a Character's Point of View
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Lady Francis Berkeley/Amy Stallings
Amy Stallings as Lady Frances Berkeley explains Bacon’s Rebellion, and then as Amy Stallings explains first-person interpretation
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Friday Reflection: Like Father, Like Son?
Joseph Torigian on the politics of Communist China, Xi Zhongzun, and his son Xi Jinping
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The Party's Interests Come First
Joseph Torigian on the Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping
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Friday Reflection: More Than Just the Flower
Lindsay Schackenbach Regele on Joel Poinsett, Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Self-Interest
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Poinsettia Man
Lindsay Schakenbach Regele on Joel Roberts Poinsett, Adventures, Diplomacy, Espionage, Trade, Self-Dealing, South Carolina, and the Paradoxes of…
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Mini‑Series: The History of the Local, of Family, and of the Everyday
Three conversations with Joseph Amato that turn the ordinary into history
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Friday Reflection: Reading Letters
Ariel Helfer on Plato, Politics, and the Philosophical Life
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Plato's Letters
Ariel Helfer on the Political Challenges of the Philosophic Life
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Notanda 12.25
December 2, 2025: A Newsletter from Historically Thinking
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November 2025

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