Jun 30, 2026 · not_requested
The Shape of Things; An Intellectual History of Flat Earth Theory - Part Two: Stunt Performers and Grifters
- Duration seconds
- 3157
Podcast
Historical Blindness
- Author
- Nathaniel Lloyd
- Feed episode count
- 243
- Official site
- http://www.historicalblindness.com/
Summary
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.
Episodes
Jun 16, 2026 · not_requested
The Shape of Things; An Intellectual History of Flat Earth Theory - Part One: Zetetic Astronomy
- Duration seconds
- 3068
Jun 3, 2026 · not_requested
Moonstruck! Debunking Apollo Hoax Claims - Part Two: Dignifying Lunarcy
- Duration seconds
- 3075
May 19, 2026 · not_requested
Moonstruck! Debunking Apollo Hoax Claims - Part One: An Astronomical Amount of Evidence
- Duration seconds
- 3046
May 5, 2026 · not_requested
Wunderwaffe: The Myths of Nazi Supertechnology - Part Two, The Bell Hoax
- Duration seconds
- 2962
Apr 21, 2026 · not_requested
Wunderwaffe: The Myths of Nazi Supertechnology - Part One, The Vril Fiction
- Duration seconds
- 2651
Apr 7, 2026 · not_requested
Versailles Time-Slip: The Moberly-Jourdain Incident
- Duration seconds
- 3249
Mar 24, 2026 · not_requested
Under the Pink Triangle: Transgender Experience in Interwar Germany
- Duration seconds
- 2725
Mar 10, 2026 · not_requested
The Martyrdom of Hypatia of Alexandria
- Duration seconds
- 2657
Feb 24, 2026 · not_requested
The Gun Controllers: Freedom, Firearms, and Fear of Black Power
- Duration seconds
- 2681
Feb 10, 2026 · not_requested
Crispus Attucks, American Martyr
- Duration seconds
- 2891
Jan 27, 2026 · not_requested
Doomsday Deferred: The Failed Predictions of American Millennialism
- Duration seconds
- 2595
Jan 13, 2026 · not_requested
The Great Alignment Lie
- Duration seconds
- 3505
Dec 23, 2025 · not_requested
The Origins of the Christ (Another Very Historically Blind Xmas!)
- Duration seconds
- 2997
Dec 9, 2025 · not_requested
Special Presentation: The Devil You Know
- Duration seconds
- 2663
Nov 25, 2025 · not_requested
Think of the Children - Part Two: Satanic Panic
- Duration seconds
- 3682
Nov 11, 2025 · not_requested
Think of the Children - Part One: Stranger Danger
- Duration seconds
- 3872
Oct 21, 2025 · not_requested
Hunting the Highgate Vampire
- Duration seconds
- 3089
Oct 7, 2025 · not_requested
Poltergeist in Rosenheim
- Duration seconds
- 2811
Sep 23, 2025 · not_requested
Standing Army, Sitting President: The Posse Comitatus Act and the Domestic Deployment of the Military
- Duration seconds
- 2564
Sep 9, 2025 · not_requested
Cracked and Packed: A History of Gerrymandering
- Duration seconds
- 2506
Aug 26, 2025 · not_requested
Back Door to War: A History of Undeclared and Unauthorized US Warfare
- Duration seconds
- 3742
Aug 12, 2025 · not_requested
A New Reassessment: Realism on Israel-Palestine
- Duration seconds
- 3625
Jul 29, 2025 · not_requested
Project Esther and the Weaponization of Anti-Semitism
- Duration seconds
- 3189
Jul 15, 2025 · not_requested
Town and Gown: Academic Freedom in Crisis
- Duration seconds
- 3832
Jul 1, 2025 · not_requested
License to Discriminate: LGBTQ Rights, Religious Exemption, and the Misreading of the Bible
- Duration seconds
- 3032
Jun 17, 2025 · not_requested
Scapegoated! A History of American Nativism
- Duration seconds
- 3033
Jun 3, 2025 · not_requested
Inalienable: Alien Enemies, the Great Writ, and Trump's Constitutional Crisis
- Duration seconds
- 3869