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Historically ThinkingThe Accidental Tyrant: Kim Il-Sung’s Rise to Power, and How He Kept It, with Fyodor TertitskiyIn September 1945, various factions within the Soviet state were determining how the new nation of North Korea would be ruled, and who would be its leader. In late September a list was generated of potential leaders, and passed to higher authorities. The name Kim Il-Sung was not on it. At the time the future dictator of the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea was recently returned to Korea, where he had not been for years if not decades, and aspired to be the vice-Mayor of Pyongyang. But extraordinarily by late October, this obscure figure who had not had any rank hi...2025-06-2531 minHistorically ThinkingJoseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet, with John G. TurnerJoseph Smith was the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, known by those outside the church during his life and today as the Mormons. But Joseph Smith was many things besides: the child of a struggling family gradually moving westward in search of opportunity, a day laborer, visionary, seer; treasure hunter; translator; revelator; prophet; elder, banker, prisoner, wrestler, real estate speculator, polygamist, Lieutenant General, Master Mason, Mayor, and martyr.“America,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1844, “is the country of the future…[a] country of beginnings, of projects, of vast designs...2025-06-1838 minHistorically ThinkingRevolution to Come“How we think about revolution,” writes my guest Dan Edelstein, “is ultimately conditioned by how we think about history.” Classical philosophers viewed history as chaotic and directionless, and sought to keep historical change—especially revolutions—at bay. “Revolutions,” so far as Greeks and Romans were concerned, “were more likely to bring about death and destruction than universal harmony.” This conception prevailed until the eighteenth century. It was then–and only then, Edelstein argues–that Enlightenment thinkers conceived of history as a form of progress and of revolution as its catalyst, completely inverting the ancient model of revolution. These...2025-06-1131 min
LITERAPUC-SP#59- Divulga LCL: Conversas sobre publicações e eventos no mundo acadêmico | Um bate-papo com Milena Maia e Olívia ZamboneBem-vindas e bem-vindos ao LiteraPUC-SP, o podcast do programa de estudos pós-graduados em literatura e crítica literária da PUC São Paulo, idealizado e produzido por nossas pesquisadoras e pesquisadores.O podcast do Programa de Pós-graduação em Literatura e Crítica Literária está de volta para sua primeira temporada de 2025! No episódio de estreia, recebemos Milena Maia e Olívia Zambone para falar sobre o "Divulga LCL", um projeto dedicado a divulgar eventos e chamadas para periódicos acadêmicos na área de Literatura e Letras. Milena Maia é doutoranda em Li...2025-03-0736 min
Historically ThinkingIntellectual Humility and Historical Thinking: Suzanne Marchand[…]2024-02-0229 minHistorically ThinkingEpisode 347: Abolitionist Civil War[…]2024-01-221h 09Historically ThinkingEpisode 346: The World That Wasn’t[…]2024-01-151h 15Historically ThinkingEpisode 345: Ecology of Nations[…]2024-01-081h 05Historically ThinkingIntellectual Humility and Historical Thinking: Jonathan Zimmerman[…]2023-12-2124 minHistorically ThinkingAn Introduction to Disorder[…]2023-12-1115 minHistorically ThinkingEpisode 344: Founding Scoundrels[…]2023-12-041h 06Historically ThinkingEpisode 343: Talking Anglo-Saxon[…]2023-11-2853 minHistorically ThinkingEpisode 342: Fish Market[…]2023-11-1359 min
The Great AntidoteAlbert Zambone on Historical InquirySend us a textAlbert Zambone is the author of Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life. He is also the host of the podcast Historically Thinking, where he teaches listeners not only history but how to do it. Go check it out if you haven’t. He also has a doctorate in history from the University of Oxford. Today, we talk about what history is, why it’s so important, how to do it, and what it tells us. We touch on culture and narratives, and the education system as well. Support the showN...2023-11-1055 min