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Hosted by Al Zambone · history · EN
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.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWe 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.
Historically Thinking is hosted by Al Zambone. The show has published 300 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Episode 482: First Research University" (28 October 2026, 53 minutes), "The Bookshop: Andrew Pettegree on six centuries of booksellers seeking readers" (23 October 2026, 61 minutes), and "Political Appetites: Nancy Siegel on liberty tea, election cakes, mammoth cheeses, and how Americans made politics in the kitchen" (21 October 2026, 30 minutes).
Historically Thinking publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 35 minutes across 300 episodes.
Booking probability for Historically Thinking is 37%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Historically Thinking requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Historically Thinking's contact route on record: verified email.
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Al Zambone hosts Historically Thinking, a history podcast with 300 episodes published.
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At his death on December 24, 1873, the Baltimore merchant Johns Hopkins left $7 million. which established both a hospital and the first American research university bearing his name. From its beginning Johns Hopkins...
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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 a “paucity of...
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Published October 21, 2026 (Episode 480) During the era of the American Revolution, food and drink had political meanings and could express what Americans thought their government should be. Protests over tea—and the...
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Apologies for neglecting to drop this episode last week; on the bright side, you'll get this week's episode just a few hours from now. To always get an episode, and much else besides, subscribe to the Historically...
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In September 1872, in the countryside north of Toronto, horses began to fall ill. Their noses ran, they coughed, and their breathing became “labored and severe.” In the worst cases, the sufferers could do nothing other...
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On December 16, 1944, as American troops retreated or fled before advancing German soldiers on the first day of what is now known as the Battle of the Bulge, Lieutenant Colonel Ray Love Trautman found himself leading an...
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On July 18, 1863, the 54th Massachusetts—one of the first Black regiments in the Union Army, and the first raised in the North—led an assault on Fort Wagner, one of the fortifications defending Charleston, South...
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Content Warning: This episode contains frank discussions of rape, sexual assault, and physical violence and is not suitable for children. On a winter morning in 1472, an investigator arrived at a poor widow’s home in...
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Pericles of Athens was a complicated man, a man of twists and turns. Born into a lineage of Athenian aristocrats, he became a champion of democracy and indeed a masterful demagogue. A teenager by the end of the Persian...
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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 nation-state would be the prevalent form of government...
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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 entirely within occupied France, where he worked for the...
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Rage — Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the house of death so many sturdy souls, great fighters’ souls, but made their bodies...
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Even that overlooked yet essential little pinprick at the end of this sentence has a history. For once upon a time, there were no stops or periods. And therefore there were no sentences, at least as we conceive them...
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YEAR of meteors! brooding year! I would bind in words retrospective some of your deeds and signs; I would sing your contest for the 19th Presidentiad;. I would sing how an old man, tall, with white hair, mounted the...
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In early 1965, three executives boarded a plane in Japan, bound for the United States. “Unbeknownst to the U.S. Customs, they were carrying corporate secrets. Each man had carefully placed two vials of an isomerase...
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Most Americans remember the Louisiana Purchase as a remarkably good bargain: fifteen million dollars for an enormous tract of land that doubled the size of the United States. But that familiar cliché hides a large...
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Running for about 177 miles along the Welsh-English border is the remains of an earthwork, a fortification over a hundred miles longer than Hadrian’s Wall. Built sometime in the eighth century, it is known as Offa’s...
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"There was a time when the Declaration of Independence was news. Most books written about the Declaration have pursued questions about its precedence and authorship as well as its legacy. In 1776, when the Declaration...
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The Declaration of Independence has had two simultaneous lives. One is the life of its ideas, the life that scholars pay the most attention to: a life of fits and starts, surprisingly forgotten in the first years after...
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American independence was not simply the writing of the Declaration of Independence, nor even the vote that approved it. It was the culmination of decades of argument, persuasion, and political innovation. The American...
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Corliss Page Dean Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies Emeritus at Cornell University, Hoover Institution
Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University’s Hoover Institution
Group Chief Operating Officer for Wesleyan and Co-Chair of the FinTech arm of SuperTech, Purdue quantum science and engineering institute
author of STOLEN (A Reverse Underground Railroad Odyssey), University of Maryland, College Park
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