Mark R. StonemanOct 2
In March I was just getting started with Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny. It immediately grabbed my attention because historical thinking lies at the heart of his arguments about our current political moment. I blogged. It’s a helluva thing to have the two problematic images of history he critiques bookend so much of the ahistorical Zeitgeist in which I have lived these past thirty-five years. https://markstoneman.com/2025/10/02/in-march-i-was-just.html #HistoricalThinking
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In March I was just getting started with Timothy …

Mark R. StonemanSep 17, 2025

Read this: "The Lost Art Of Thinking Historically" by Francis Gavin in Noema, Sept. 11, 2025,
https://www.noemamag.com/the-lost-art-of-thinking-historically/

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The Lost Art Of Thinking Historically

To understand the world today, we must see it as actors of the past did: through a foggy windshield, not a rearview mirror, facing a future of radical uncertainty.

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Show threadTrevor BurrowsJan 18, 2025

Pinning this bc apparently I *am* going to read more and write more about Becker, lol.

That letter to Frederick Jackson Turner led me to Becker's famous "Detachment and the Writing of History," published the same year. I've read this before but probably early grad school? It's been a long time.

Holy crap, what a fascinating essay, both for its time and in our *present* time, like literally, right now.

I was able to download a pdf here:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1910/10/detachment-and-the-writing-of-history/644705/

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Detachment and the Writing of History

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Trevor BurrowsJan 14, 2025

"... and [I] have come to the conclusion that #logic and #history are two distinct ways (and perhaps the only ways) of apprehending 'reality'; history being, however, the more comprehensive, since there is no logic of history but [there] is a very interesting history of logic.
[...]
To me, nothing can be duller than historical facts; nothing more interesting than the service they can be made to render in the effort to solve the everlasting riddle of human existence."

Carl Becker, Letter to Frederick Jackson Turner, May 16, 1910

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Mark R. StonemanOct 27, 2024
It's one thing to criticize presentist thinking and optimistic notions of human progress that don't comport with professional historiography. It's quite another to be punched in the face repeatedly by the reality of historical contingency in our national experience these past few decades.
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Dig: A History PodcastMar 13, 2023

<strong>Anne Moody: Context and Conflict in <em>Coming of Age in Mississippi</em></strong>

https://digpodcast.org/2023/03/12/anne-moody-context-and-conflict-in-coming-of-age-in-mississippi/

#Context #20thcenturyhistory #Americanhistory #civilrights #civilrightsmovement #historicalthinking #race #UShistory #women'shistory #podcast #histodons #history @histodons

Anne Moody: Context and Conflict in Coming of Age in Mississippi

Published in 1968, Anne Moody’s autobiography Coming of Age in Mississippi details her journey from a cotton plantation in the deep south to becoming a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. At times…

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Janice LiedlDec 28, 2022
@gamingthepast I'll be eagerly following this development. The first run of my class on "Games and History" helped students to build #HistoricalThinking better than any course I've taught in 31 years. Students volunteered more analyses of challenging topics. A few sought out other scholarly histories to answer their own questions arising from the course and share with the class. Games can be an excellent gateway to greater historical skills at the same time as they're great fun.
Eric BeckmanNov 2, 2022
Enjoying @bramhubbell series on teaching the Ottoman Empire with images. #WorldHistory #HistoricalThinking #history
https://www.liberatingnarratives.com/addicted-to-the-coffeehouse/
“Addicted to the Coffeehouse”: Snapshots from the Ottoman Empire

A discussion of the challenges of teaching the Ottomans in world history courses and how to use an Ottoman coffeehouse to teach about the empire

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Eric BeckmanOct 30, 2022

Hello!
I enjoyed connections with historians and educators on the bird site, along with following public affairs and soccer. Interested in that, but open to other topics.

This year is my 33rd working in a public high school and my first as a #literacy coach. .5 at school and independent history ed #tutor .I stress #HistoricalThinking , global perspectives in #WorldHistory, and anti-racism in my work and profession development for #Teachers
#introduction