Historical Blindness

Historical Blindness

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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.

Recent Episodes

  • Town and Gown: Academic Freedom in Crisis

    2 weeks ago
  • License to Discriminate: LGBTQ Rights, Religious Exemption, and the Misreading of the Bible

    4 weeks ago
  • Scapegoated! A History of American Nativism

    1 month ago
  • Inalienable: Alien Enemies, the Great Writ, and Trump's Constitutional Crisis

    2 months ago
  • Gaslighter! Trump's Historical Distortions

    2 months ago
  • Tariff Men: A History of the US in Tariff Controversies

    3 months ago
  • Darkness Came: the Myths of Easter and Good Friday

    3 months ago
  • The Legend of Joan, Popess of Rome

    4 months ago
  • Empress Elagabalus

    4 months ago
  • The Erasure of Aspasia

    5 months ago