Historical Blindness

History Podcasts

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...

Episodes

The Atlantis Fantasy - Part One: The Platonic Idea

Common Séance; A History of Spiritualism - Part Two: Manifestly False

Common Séance; A History of Spiritualism - Part One: The Fox Sisters, Rap Artists

The Shape of Things; An Intellectual History of Flat Earth Theory - Part Two: Stunt Performers and Grifters

The Shape of Things; An Intellectual History of Flat Earth Theory - Part One: Zetetic Astronomy

Moonstruck! Debunking Apollo Hoax Claims - Part Two: Dignifying Lunarcy

Moonstruck! Debunking Apollo Hoax Claims - Part One: An Astronomical Amount of Evidence

Wunderwaffe: The Myths of Nazi Supertechnology - Part Two, The Bell Hoax

Wunderwaffe: The Myths of Nazi Supertechnology - Part One, The Vril Fiction

Versailles Time-Slip: The Moberly-Jourdain Incident

Under the Pink Triangle: Transgender Experience in Interwar Germany

The Martyrdom of Hypatia of Alexandria

The Gun Controllers: Freedom, Firearms, and Fear of Black Power

Crispus Attucks, American Martyr

Doomsday Deferred: The Failed Predictions of American Millennialism

The Great Alignment Lie

The Origins of the Christ (Another Very Historically Blind Xmas!)

Special Presentation: The Devil You Know

Think of the Children - Part Two: Satanic Panic

Think of the Children - Part One: Stranger Danger