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Episode 281: The Great Atlantic Freedom Conspiracy

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Episode 280: Thinking about Historically Thinking

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Episode 279: Count the Dead

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Episode 278: Healing a Divided Nation

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Episode 277: Saving Freud

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Episode 276: The Secret Syllabus

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Episode 275: The World the Plague Made

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Episode 274: Afghan Crucible

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Episode 273: Founder of Modern Poland

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Episode 272: Germans without Borders

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Episode 271: The Man at the Center of Two Revolutions

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Episode 270: Great Tomatoes of World History

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Episode 269: Free People of Color

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Episode 268: Feeding Washington’s Army

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Episode 267: African Founders

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Episode 266: Happy Dreams of Liberty

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Episode 265: How to Win a Power Struggle

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Episode 264: The Persian Version

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Episode 263: The Man Who Understood Democracy (Part Two)

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Episode 262: The Man Who Understood Democracy (Part One)

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Episode 261: The Long Land War

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Episode 260: The Making of History

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Episode 259: In Praise of Good Bookstores

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Episode 258: The Pursuit of Perfection

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Episode 257: Inventing a New World Order

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Episode 256: The War That Made the Roman Empire

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Episode 255: Denmark Vesey’s Bible

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Episode 254: Saving Yellowstone

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Episode 253: Beer!

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Episode 252: The Great War and Modern Medicine

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Episode 251: The History of Technology, from Leonardo to the Internet

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Episode 250: Amber Waves of Grain

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Behind the Book: The Family That Lost America

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Episode 249: Postcards from the Past

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Episode 248: Athens

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Episode 247: The Greeks

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Episode 246: The Rule of Laws

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Episode 245: Queens of Jerusalem

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Episode 244: Hitler’s First One Hundred Days

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Episode 243: The Story Paradox

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Behind the Book: Down the Road to the Cedars

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Episode 242: Was Abraham Lincoln a Racist?

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Episode 238: Generations of Reason

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Episode 241: Doing the Research

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Episode 240: Empire and Jihad

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Episode 239: The Chicken and the Egg, or, What Keeps (Some) Historians Awake at Night

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Episode 237: A Brave and Cunning Prince, or, Following the Evidence Where It Leads

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Episode 236: Let Me Put That Into Context

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Bonus Episode: The Higher Ed Scene, with Mark Salisbury

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Episode 235: The Great Little Madison

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Episode 234: The Fall of Robespierre

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Episode 233: Generation Myth

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Episode 232: Talking About Each Other’s Gods

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Episode 231: Multiple Perspectives, or, Seeing the Same Thing in Different Ways

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Episode 230: What the Amish Can Do For Us

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Episode 229: Mr. Jefferson and His University

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Episode 228: The Intellectual Life in Difficult Circumstances

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Episode 227: The First French Revolution

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Episode 226: Adventures Through Time, with Dominic Sandbrook

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Episode 225: Noble Volunteers, or, The British Soldier in the American Revolution

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Episode 224: Disruption

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Episode 223: Climbing Denali

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Episode 222: The Chemistry of Fear

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Episode 221: Prohibition Wasn’t American

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Episode 220: From the Archive, The First Three Weeks of College

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Episode 219: The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome

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Episode 218: To Her Credit

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Episode 217: When Money Talks

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Episode 216: The Appalachian Trail

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Episode 215: The Other Face of Battle

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Episode 214: Just a Few Questions

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Episode 213: From Rebel to Ruler

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Episode 212: The Perennial Russian Pivot to Asia

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Episode 211: The [Quiet] Russian Revolution

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Episode 210: Very Personal History

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Episode 209: Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith

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Episode 208: What’s Love Got to Do With It?

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Episode 207: After the Black Death

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Episode 206: Sick and Tired

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Episode 205: Can There Ever Be History for the Common Good?

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Episode 204: The Peace Treaty of 1916 That Didn’t Happen

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Episode 203: The Saint, the Count, and Sourcing (Historical Thinking Series)

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Episode 202: Talking History, Podcasting, and the Age of Jackson, with Daniel N. Gullotta

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Episode 201: Isaac Newton, After Gravity

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Episode 200: Connecting, from an English Portrait to Galileo and Beyond, with J.L. Heilbron

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Episode 199: George Washington, Politician

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Bonus: Comprehending Dante, with Guy Raffa

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Episode 198: American Heretic

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Episode 197: An Independent Woman of the Eighteenth Century

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From the Archives: Episode 39: The Skills of Historical Thinking

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Episode 196: Comprehending What We Read (Historical Thinking Series)

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Episode 195: Battling for the Classics

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Episode 194: If This Be Treason, Make the Most of It

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Bonus: Mark Salisbury on Higher Ed at the End of 2020, or Continuing Higher COVIDucation

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Episode 193: The Plot to Bring Down the Soviet Revolution

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Episode 192: Distracted, or, How to be Attentive

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Episode 191: Pacifist Prophet

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Episode 190: Porcelain

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Episode 189: Keeping in Time

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Episode 188: The Amateur Hour, or, A History of Why College Professors Can’t Teach