Popular History and Academic History

About this episode

The episode discusses the differences between academic and popular history and their respective purposes.

Academic history and popular history are very different things, but what is their purpose? And how should we, as people who like and consume history, understand and use them? Patrick launched a brand-new history show! It’s called Past Lives, and every episode explores the life of a real person who lived in the past. Subscribe now: https://bit.ly/PWPLA And don't forget, you can still Get The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World in hardcopy, ebook, or audiobook (read by Patrick) here: https://bit.ly/PWverge. Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of Tides of History ad-free right now. Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

People in this episode

Host: Patrick Wyman

Topics covered

• academic history
• popular history
• history consumption
• historical purpose
• new history show

Keywords

• history
• academic history
• popular history
• historical purpose
• Tides of History

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Audible

Books & works: Past Lives, The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World

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