- 439
- Episodes
- 31
- Transcribed
- 107
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
About Historically Thinking
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.
- Publisher
- Al Zambone
- Category
- history · society & culture · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 26 Nov 2018
- Latest episode
- 7 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
31 of 439 episodes have a transcript.
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Great Horse Flu: Thomas Andrews on the “Great Epizootic of 1872”, and the Fate of Reconstruction America
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Librarian's War: Molly Guptill Manning on Ray Trautman and the Army of Readers
23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Glorious Fate: Kevin Levin on the short life and complicated afterlife of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw of the 54th Massachusetts
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The Great Horse Flu: Thomas Andrews on the “Great Epizootic of 1872”, and the Fate of Reconstruction America
Published 7 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So we get this insanely heavy infection rate. The other thing that's worth noting is that influenza had already been, you know, it had been in the Americas for centuries. It had affected Eclines for centuries. And so it's not a new virus. And so the only way you can get infection rates that high is if it's a novel variant. And so this outbreak had to be the result of some sort of viral evolution. And since it first appears inland rather than at the shore, and because there are no, you know, I mean, I looked pretty hard for accounts of similar outbreaks occurring at the same time elsewhere in the world, and there aren't any. […]
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- Thomas G Andrews
- Molly Guptill Manning
- Kevin Levin
- Sara McDougall
- Paul Cartledge
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- 4.9 / 5
- 88 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 19 ratings
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- YouTube
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- Engagement
- 51
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