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Historical Blindness

Nathaniel Lloyd

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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253 episodes

  1. Buried Stories; The Tartaria Delusion - Part One: Foundations of a Modern Myth 1:05:47
  2. Teaser Trailer for Going Bump, A Paranormal Investigation Podcast 6:02
  3. The Birth of the Jersey Devil 47:47
  4. The Path of the Headless Horseman 47:07
  5. Hibernian Hokum: Irish Origins and the Stone of Destiny 55:31
  6. The Atlantis Fantasy - Part Three: Location, Location, Location 1:22:21
  7. The Atlantis Fantasy - Part Two: A Convenient Fiction 1:04:23
  8. The Atlantis Fantasy - Part One: The Platonic Idea 54:39
  9. Common Séance; A History of Spiritualism - Part Two: Manifestly False 1:10:59
  10. Common Séance; A History of Spiritualism - Part One: The Fox Sisters, Rap Artists 54:59
  11. The Shape of Things; An Intellectual History of Flat Earth Theory - Part Two: Stunt Performers and Grifters 52:37
  12. The Shape of Things; An Intellectual History of Flat Earth Theory - Part One: Zetetic Astronomy 51:08
  13. Moonstruck! Debunking Apollo Hoax Claims - Part Two: Dignifying Lunarcy 51:15
  14. Moonstruck! Debunking Apollo Hoax Claims - Part One: An Astronomical Amount of Evidence 50:46
  15. Wunderwaffe: The Myths of Nazi Supertechnology - Part Two, The Bell Hoax 49:22
  16. Wunderwaffe: The Myths of Nazi Supertechnology - Part One, The Vril Fiction 44:11
  17. Versailles Time-Slip: The Moberly-Jourdain Incident 54:09
  18. Under the Pink Triangle: Transgender Experience in Interwar Germany 45:25
  19. The Martyrdom of Hypatia of Alexandria 44:17
  20. The Gun Controllers: Freedom, Firearms, and Fear of Black Power 44:41
  21. Crispus Attucks, American Martyr 48:11
  22. Doomsday Deferred: The Failed Predictions of American Millennialism 43:15
  23. The Great Alignment Lie 58:25
  24. The Origins of the Christ (Another Very Historically Blind Xmas!) 49:57
  25. Special Presentation: The Devil You Know 44:23
  26. Think of the Children - Part Two: Satanic Panic 1:01:22
  27. Think of the Children - Part One: Stranger Danger 1:04:32
  28. Hunting the Highgate Vampire 51:29
  29. Poltergeist in Rosenheim 46:51
  30. Standing Army, Sitting President: The Posse Comitatus Act and the Domestic Deployment of the Military 42:44
  31. Cracked and Packed: A History of Gerrymandering 41:46
  32. Back Door to War: A History of Undeclared and Unauthorized US Warfare 1:02:22
  33. A New Reassessment: Realism on Israel-Palestine 1:00:25
  34. Project Esther and the Weaponization of Anti-Semitism 53:09
  35. Town and Gown: Academic Freedom in Crisis 1:03:52
  36. License to Discriminate: LGBTQ Rights, Religious Exemption, and the Misreading of the Bible 50:32
  37. Scapegoated! A History of American Nativism 50:33
  38. Inalienable: Alien Enemies, the Great Writ, and Trump's Constitutional Crisis 1:04:29
  39. Gaslighter! Trump's Historical Distortions 45:13
  40. Tariff Men: A History of the US in Tariff Controversies 48:18
  41. Darkness Came: the Myths of Easter and Good Friday 53:50
  42. The Legend of Joan, Popess of Rome 43:21
  43. Empress Elagabalus 57:32
  44. The Erasure of Aspasia 58:39
  45. The Lincoln Legends - Part Four: Smoke and Fire 52:37
  46. The Lincoln Legends - Part Three: Puppet Masters and Masterminds 54:58
  47. The Lincoln Legends - Part Two: A Conspiracy, Simple or Grand 54:34
  48. The Lincoln Legends - Part One: Larger Than Life 46:45
  49. The Roots of the Christmas Tree (Another Very Historically Blind Xmas!) 48:37
  50. Patreon Release: A Very Shroomy Xmas! 22:38