Tag Archive: History

Baconian Science — In Our Time, Apr. 2, 2009

Friday, April 10, 2009

Baconian Science — In Our Time, Apr. 2, 2009
Among the most informative shows I can remember. What I found most interesting was that idea best summed up at the end by one of the guests that the Baconian ideology was much more important than the actual Baconian method. The method itself was somewhat challenging in [...]

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The Boxer Rebellion — In Our Time, Mar. 19, 2009

Friday, March 20, 2009

The Boxer Rebellion — In Our Time, Mar. 19, 2009
Very interesting show today (well, broadcast yesterday, but heard today). Listening to scholars of Chinese history discuss a topic, one becomes aware of how ill-served one is by the massive focus on the history of Western civilization during one’s education. The result being that major events [...]

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The Library of Alexandria — In Our Time, Mar. 12, 2009

Thursday, March 12, 2009

The Library of Alexandria — In Our Time, Mar. 12, 2009
This wound up being a bit of a challenging show since it’s clear that the Library at Alexandria was an enormously influential institution for a very long time, but we don’t know a lot of the details that would make for interesting exploration. We know [...]

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A History of History — In Our Time, Jan 22, 2009

Monday, January 26, 2009

A History of History — In Our Time :: This show moved at a brisk pace. It was clear from the outset that Bragg and his guests knew they had a lot of ground to cover, and yet they still could only barely get to Gibbon, and then only just barely. This show is the [...]

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A new top 100 list! The Atlantic publishes their top 100 most influential Americans. As they said in their email, "Let the debates begin." Plenty to debate here, but I loved this one-sentence description of Woodrow Wilson (#10): "He made the world safe for U.S. interventionism, if not for democracy." — #   11/21/2006

Via DeLong. British History 101: This is the place to come for all the things that have made Britain what she is today! — #   11/14/2006

Wilson Reduction

Wednesday, February 2, 2005

Hear him! Matthew Yglesias on Woodrow Wilson:
Fundamentally, though, there are some very real similarities between the two. In my opinion, Wilson, despite the large role he plays in certain versions of Democratic Party automythology was a pretty fantastically terrible president. Like Bush, his policies abroad tended to be animated by worthy ideals, but they [...]

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