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The Midwest isn’t simply America’s breadbasket. It’s also one of its great manufacturing regions. Brian Leech explains why the Corn Belt and Rust Belt have always been intertwined. historicallythinking.org

Corn syrup is food history. But it's also labor history, environmental history, Midwestern history, technological history, and labor history. Which is to say that it's...history. historicallythinking.org

The story of high-fructose corn syrup doesn’t begin in a supermarket. It begins in 1965 with three executives bringing enzyme samples in the suit jacket pocket from Japan to a small town on the Mississippi River. #History #FoodHistory historicallythinking.org

This week on Historically Thinking: Three conversations with David O. Stewart, Michael Auslin, and Emily Sneff. And three different ways of thinking about democracy, and the Declaration of Independence. historicallythinking.org

One Revolution. Eight conversations. A civil war. A global crisis. A cultural revolution. A memory project. A declaration. A nation. Different angles. Same history. historicallythinking.org

Next week, the Declaration of Independence will be discussed on Historically Thinking as: 📜 an argument 📜 a national treasure 📜 breaking news Change the angle, change the history. historicallythinking.org

Kim Philby–Soviet spy within the British Secret Service– ended his life with medals from Franco, Stalin, and Churchill. Which tells you something about the twentieth century. historicallythinking.org/p/s…

One of the most fascinating parts of this story is that many people in the 1930s knew perfectly well what Stalinism looked like. Some simply chose to ignore it. historicallythinking.org/p/s…

Philby, Maclean, Burgess, Blunt, and Cairncross weren't simply betraying Britain. They were helping build a Soviet empire in Eastern Europe. They were some of the boots smashing human faces. historicallythinking.org/p/s…

The Cambridge Five–Philby, Maclean, Burgess, Blunt, and Cairncross–are usually remembered as glamorous British traitors or symbols of class hypocrisy. Antonia Senior asks a different question: What did Stalin want from them? historicallythinking.org

History is not one thing but many things. It is: cities under siege, political systems under pressure, families under coercion, and technologies changing how humans live together. Recent episodes at historicallythinking.org

Recent episodes of Historically Thinking have ranged from: • Athens and Sparta to • slavery in small Virginia households to • how guns reshaped early modern Europe Different subjects but the same habit of mind. Go to historicallythinking.org

One week: ☢️ nuclear deterrence Next week: 🛡️ Byzantine walls collapsing under cannon fire That’s the joy of historical conversation. More at historicallythinking.org

Over the last few weeks on Historically Thinking: • firearms and state formation • slavery in intimate spaces • Europe and historical perspective • nuclear weapons and international systems • the fall of Constantinople History is unruly. historicallythinking.org

The Greeks competed at everything. Even civilization itself. 🎧 Listen now wherever you find your podcasts, and find out more at historicallythinking.org

Athens. Sparta. Rivalry. Democracy. War. 🎧 New episode with Adrian Goldsworthy historicallythinking.org

Civil War history is not only battles and generals. It is also confinement, deprivation, bureaucracy, and survival. 🎧 Listen to Episode 445 of Historically Thinking historicallythinking.org/p/w…

Prison camps in the American Civil War were not just humanitarian disasters. They reshaped military policy, racial attitudes, and postwar memory. historicallythinking.org/p/w…

In WWII, an American soldier’s odds of capture were roughly 1 in 100. In the Civil War, they were closer to 1 in 5. Captivity was not exceptional—it was a defining experience. historicallythinking.org/p/w…

Why are Civil War prison camps so central to the war—and yet so marginal in how we tell its story? A conversation on captivity, policy, and memory. historicallythinking.org/p/w…