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History 605Season 5, Ep 15: An America 250 Special, "Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life."In the run-up to marking the nation's 250th anniversary next year, Ben Jones talks to historian, author, and podcaster Albert Zambone about his biography of Daniel Morgan.
2025-09-291h 09History 605Season 5, Ep 15: An America 250 Special, "Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life."In the run-up to marking the nation's 250th anniversary next year, Ben Jones talks to historian, author, and podcaster Albert Zambone about his biography of Daniel Morgan.
2025-09-291h 09
Historically ThinkingEpisode 405: Free CreationsAlbert Einstein died in 1955, the most influential scientist of the 20th century. Yet even in the 21st-century his intellectual presence remains – seven of the noble prizes awarded since 2000 stemmed directly from the work which he did in 1905 and 1915. More even than Isaac Newton’s bewigged and apple-pelted image, Einstein’s pervades popular culture, from that photo with his tongue sticking out to coffee mugs to intellectual exercises for your toddler. He has become so ubiquitous that perhaps we have come to forget that he was a real person, whose life is interconnected with the most important political and intellectual movements of his...
2025-04-281h 02Historically ThinkingEpisode 402: Broken Altars“For many educated Westerners,” writes today’s guest, “ the idea that religion promotes violence and secularism ameliorates the problem is a settled certainty, a doxa, an unstated premise of right thinking. By no means do I deny that religious energies…can be turned toward destructive ends, especially by unscrupulous politicians in times of crisis and uncertainty… Nonetheless, concentration on or simply assuming religion’s inclination toward violence insouciantly glides past a glaring reality of the twentieth century: namely, that regimes committed to secularism have not infrequently possessed just as much capacity for violence as, and often much more than, those tied to religi...
2025-03-3156 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 minHistorically ThinkingEpisode 338: Rivals “The scientific community is by any measure a very strange kind of community”, writes my guest. “For starters, no one knows who exactly belongs to it... Its members are a miscellany of individuals but also of disparate institutions…Nor does it have a fixed location. …the village conjured up by the term “scientific community” is scattered all over the globe and its inhabitants meet only occasionally, if at all. Far from living in neighborly harmony or even collegial mutual tolerance, the members of this uncommunal community compete ferociously and engage in notoriously vitriolic polemics … Although modern science has been called the locomotive of...
2023-10-161h 03
Hardly Working with Brent OrrellFuture history: looking behind to shape what’s aheadCan thinking through the arch of history assist modern thinkers in planning for the future? Or is the future uncertain and separate from the happenings of the past? Brent cohosts today’s episode with Albert Zambone, an Oxford University-trained historian of colonial America and the host of the Historically Thinking podcast. Together, Brent and Al interview […]
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2020-08-2046 min
Get Lost In A Captivating Full Audiobook On Your Commute.Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life by Albert Louis ZambonePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/87424to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life
Author: Albert Louis Zambone
Narrator: Tom Taverna
Format: mp3
Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
Release date: 10-18-19
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 85 ratings
Genres: American Revolution
Publisher's Summary:
On January 17, 1781, at Cowpens, South Carolina, the notorious British cavalry officer Banastre Tarleton and his legion had been destroyed along with the cream of Lord Cornwallis’s troops. The man who planned and executed this stunning American victory was Daniel Morgan. Once a barely literate backcountry laborer, Morgan now stood at the pinnacle of American martial success. Wh...
2019-10-1812h 11
VMHC LecturesDaniel Morgan, VirginianOn May 23, 2019, Albert Louis Zambone delivered the Banner Lecture, “Daniel Morgan, Virginian.”
By the end of his life, Daniel Morgan had variously been brigadier general of the Continental Army, major general of the Virginia Militia, a winner of the Congressional Gold Medal, a congressman, and architect of the “American Cannae,” the battle of Cowpens. But the status for which he seems to have worked his entire life, from the moment he walked into the Shenandoah Valley as a homeless boy, was to be a Virginian and a member of the Virginia gentry. In this lecture, Albert Louis Zambone will focus on Morga...
2019-05-2458 min