https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/topics/history/ Articles tagged history at The Freethinking Times en https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/reviews/review-better-angels-revisited/ https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/reviews/review-better-angels-revisited/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT A decade on from Pinker's optimistic argument about declining violence, Rachel Kessler's rejoinder is careful, data-dense, and refuses to flatten its disagreements into a headline. Reviews Staff Critic https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/history/vocabulary-of-unbelief/ https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/history/vocabulary-of-unbelief/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT From atheism to secular humanism, the terms we use to describe non-belief carry centuries of argument, persecution, and hard-won clarity. Understanding the vocabulary is the first step to understanding the movement. History The Editors https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/reviews/review-radicals-documentary/ https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/reviews/review-radicals-documentary/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Claire Havemann's three-part documentary on the nineteenth-century freethought movement is unusually serious about its subjects — and willing to let them contradict each other. Reviews Staff Critic https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/history/first-gilded-age-ended/ https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/history/first-gilded-age-ended/ Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT The concentration of wealth and power in the late nineteenth century looked permanent until it didn't. The mechanisms of change are worth studying carefully. History The Editors https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/history/pentagon-papers-lessons/ https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/history/pentagon-papers-lessons/ Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT The publication of the Pentagon Papers is remembered as a triumph of press freedom. The deeper lesson — about institutional deception and its durability — is less often drawn. History The Editors