Historical Blindness
Historical Blindness is a podcast about history’s myths, mysteries, and misconceptions. By examining cases of outrageous hoaxes, pernicious conspiracy theory, mass delusion, baffling mysteries and unreliable historiography, host Nathaniel Lloyd searches for insights into modern religious belief and political culture.
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Think of the Children - Part Two: Satanic Panic
56 min
2
Think of the Children - Part One: Stranger Danger
The Stranger Danger moral panic
59 min
3
Hunting the Highgate Vampire
The story of a hysteria in 1970s London
47 min
4
Poltergeist in Rosenheim
A haunting in which in which it was claimed paranormal phenomena was scientifically observed
42 min
5
Standing Army, Sitting President: The Posse Com...
America's long history of resenting domestic policing by the military especially when the military is used against citizen protesters
38 min
6
Cracked and Packed: A History of Gerrymandering
A search for precedents and historical parallels for Texas's mid-decade partisan redistricting.
37 min
7
Back Door to War: A History of Undeclared and U...
The evolution of undeclared wars and military authorizations throughout US history
57 min
8
Introducing: CONSPIRACY THEORIES, CULTS, AND CR...
8 min
9
A New Reassessment: Realism on Israel-Palestine
A discussion of the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict
55 min
10
Project Esther and the Weaponization of Anti-Se...
The Heritage Foundation's campaign to characterize any criticism of Israel or advocacy for Palestinians as anti-Semitism
48 min
11
Town and Gown: Academic Freedom in Crisis
The Trump administration's war on higher education
58 min
12
License to Discriminate: LGBTQ Rights, Religiou...
The long, bigoted history and false scriptural basis of religious opposition to LGBTQ rights
45 min
13
Scapegoated! A History of American Nativism
The long, racist history behind immigration crackdowns in the US
46 min
14
Inalienable: Alien Enemies, the Great Writ, and...
A history of the controversial wartime power Trump has invoked to justify his mass deportations and a discussion of the inalienable rights of due process and habeas corpus
59 min
15
Gaslighter! Trump's Historical Distortions
The many ways Trump and his handlers/enablers distort and whitewash history and "sanewash" his administration
41 min
16
Tariff Men: A History of the US in Tariff Contr...
A history of the US through the history of controversial tariff policies
44 min
17
Darkness Came: the Myths of Easter and Good Friday
I explode all kinds of myths related to Easter in this holiday special.
49 min
18
The Legend of Joan, Popess of Rome
39 min
19
Empress Elagabalus
53 min
20
The Erasure of Aspasia
Aspasia, a woman influential in politics and philosophy in ancient Athens, depicted as a harlot or a sage.
54 min
21
The Lincoln Legends - Part Four: Smoke and Fire
A look at the false urban legend that John Wilkes Booth escaped.
48 min
22
The Lincoln Legends - Part Three: Puppet Master...
Further conspiracy theories suggesting the plot to assassinate was much larger, involving some of the favorite culprits of conspiracists: the government, the Catholic Church, the Freemasons, and Jews.
50 min
23
The Lincoln Legends - Part Two: A Conspiracy, S...
A look at the plot to assassinate Lincoln, and the claims that it was a much larger conspiracy than history suggests.
50 min
24
The Lincoln Legends - Part One: Larger Than Life
A look at the misconceptions and legends that surround Lincoln.
42 min
25
The Roots of the Christmas Tree (Another Very H...
The Christmas tree custom, its origins and whether it is a pagan survival
44 min