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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/worse-than-h…

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

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/worse-than-h…

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/worse-than-h…

Andersonville was not an anomaly. It was one of many. In fact, the American Civil War normalized large-scale prisoner-of-war camps—an innovation that shaped every modern conflict since. historicallythinking.org/p/worse-than-h…

During the Civil War, nearly 400,000 Union and Confederate soldiers became prisoners of war. The odds of capture were roughly 1 in 5. New episode: W. Fitzhugh Brundage on the rise of prison camps and the making of modern warfare. historicallythinking.org/p/worse-than-h…

From quaternions to gravitational waves: the entangling history of vectors and tensors. @RArianrhod 🎧 historicallythinking.org

Why did one equation change engineering, physics, and navigation? @RArianrhod explains in her book "Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation". 🎧 Listen to it at historicallythinking.org

From the Nile to the Hittites to Babylon: how clay tablets reshaped our picture of the Bronze Age world. @digkabri on the Amarna Letters. 🎧 historicallythinking.org/p/love-war-and…

3/ Douglas A. Boyd of the Louie B. Nunn Center of rOral History joins Historically Thinking to discuss "Oral History: A Very Short Introduction" (via @OUPAcademic). 🎧 Listen: historicallythinking.org/p/oral-history

2/ How can both be true? (historicallythinking.org)

1/ “Oral history” is both the oldest form of historical inquiry—and one of the newest. (historicallythinking.org)

Illicit digging, scholarly rivalry, and Bronze Age diplomacy— @digkabri on his new book "Love, War, and Diplomacy". (HT @PrincetonUPress) 🎧 historicallythinking.org/p/love-war-and…

Diplomacy is impossible without communication, and it can even be done on clay tablets. Eric Cline @digkabri of @GWtweets on the world revealed by the Amarna Letters (HT @PrincetonUPress ). 🎧 historicallythinking.org/p/love-war-and…

Historian Eric Cline @digkabri of @GWtweets joins Historically Thinking to tell the story from his new book "Love, War, and Diplomacy" (ht @PrincetonUPress) 🎧 Listen: historicallythinking.org/p/love-war-and…

3/ As scholars bought these tablets from various dealers, and translated them, they realized that essentially a "file cabinet" of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry under the Pharaoh Akhenaten had been unearthed. #HistoricallyThinking #EricHCline #Diplomacy #AncientHistory

1/ In 1887, a woman seeking fertilizer–or perhaps someone with more...nefarious...intentions–found something spectacular near the modern Egyptian community of Tell-el-Amarna. #HistoricallyThinking #EricHCline #BronzeAge #Archaeology #Diplomacy #AncientHistory #AmarnaLetters

From logistics to leadership, @PhillipsPOBrien shows how power should be (correctly) conceived of, and how it wins wars. War and Power: historicallythinking.org/p/war-and-power #Strategy #GrandStrategy #InternationalRelations