Archive - Historically Thinking

Barry Strauss on the revolts that remade a people, created new religious movements, and scrambled the geopolitics of the era

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Public Historian

Amanda Roper on Preserving Places, & On Stories That Matter

Aug 8 •

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Thomas Jefferson and the Fight Against Slavery, with Cara Rogers Stevens

Rethinking Jefferson

Aug 6 •

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Further Reflections

Reflecting on Charisma with Molly Worthen

Aug 1 •

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July 2025

June 2025

Accidental Tyrant

Kim Il-Sung’s Rise to Power, and How He Kept Hold of It, with Fyodor Tertitskiy

Jun 25 •

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Revolution to Come

Dan Edelstein on Thinking about Revolutions and History

Jun 11 •

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June 3, 2025: A Newsletter from Al Zambone and Historically Thinking

Jun 3 •

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May 2025

Episode 409: Tacitus

Sometime in the 800s, an anonymous monk in the abbey of Fulda–now in modern Germany–copied out a Latin history in one of the great inventions of the…

May 28 •

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Episode 408: Islam

While Islam has often been characterized as unitary and unchanging, by both Muslims and Westerners for their own particular reasons, that has never been…

May 19 •

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