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Historical Blindness

by 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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1
Under the Pink Triangle: Transgender Experience in Interwar Germany
45:25 Mar 24, 2026
2
The Martyrdom of Hypatia of Alexandria
44:17 Mar 10, 2026
3
The Gun Controllers: Freedom, Firearms, and Fear of Black Power
44:41 Feb 24, 2026
4
Crispus Attucks, American Martyr
48:11 Feb 10, 2026
5
Doomsday Deferred
43:15 Jan 27, 2026
6
The Great Alignment Lie
58:25 Jan 13, 2026
7
The Origins of the Christ
49:57 Dec 23, 2025
8
Special Presentation: The Devil You Know
44:23 Dec 9, 2025
9
Think of the Children - Part Two: Satanic Panic
1:01:22 Nov 25, 2025
10
Think of the Children - Part One: Stranger Danger
1:04:32 Nov 11, 2025
11
Delay announcement
0:39 Nov 4, 2025
12
Hunting the Highgate Vampire
51:29 Oct 21, 2025
13
Poltergeist in Rosenheim
46:51 Oct 7, 2025
14
Standing Army, Sitting President: The Posse Comitatus Act and the Domestic Deployment of the Military
42:44 Sep 23, 2025
15
Cracked and Packed: A History of Gerrymandering
41:46 Sep 9, 2025
16
Back Door to War: A History of Undeclared and Unauthorized US Warfare
1:02:22 Aug 26, 2025
17
Introducing: CONSPIRACY THEORIES, CULTS, AND CRIMES
8:32 Aug 18, 2025
18
A New Reassessment: Realism on Israel-Palestine
1:00:25 Aug 12, 2025
19
Project Esther and the Weaponization of Anti-Semitism
53:09 Jul 29, 2025
20
Town and Gown: Academic Freedom in Crisis
1:03:52 Jul 15, 2025
21
License to Discriminate: LGBTQ Rights, Religious Exemption, and the Misreading of the Bible
50:32 Jul 1, 2025
22
Scapegoated! A History of American Nativism
50:33 Jun 17, 2025
23
Inalienable: Alien Enemies, the Great Writ, and Trump's Constitutional Crisis
1:04:29 Jun 3, 2025
24
Gaslighter! Trump's Historical Distortions
45:13 May 20, 2025
25
Tariff Men: A History of the US in Tariff Controversies
48:18 May 6, 2025
26
Darkness Came: the Myths of Easter and Good Friday
53:50 Apr 22, 2025
27
The Legend of Joan, Popess of Rome
43:21 Apr 8, 2025
28
Empress Elagabalus
57:32 Mar 25, 2025
29
The Erasure of Aspasia
58:39 Mar 11, 2025
30
The Lincoln Legends - Part Four: Smoke and Fire
52:37 Feb 25, 2025
31
The Lincoln Legends - Part Three: Puppet Masters and Masterminds
54:58 Feb 11, 2025
32
The Lincoln Legends - Part Two: A Conspiracy, Simple or Grand
54:34 Jan 28, 2025
33
The Lincoln Legends - Part One: Larger Than Life
46:45 Jan 14, 2025
34
The Roots of the Christmas Tree
48:37 Dec 23, 2024
35
A Very Shroomy Xmas!
22:38 Dec 17, 2024
36
Special Presentation: Plodding Through the Presidents - Conspiracy Theories and the Corrupt Bargain
1:09:41 Dec 3, 2024
37
The Thanksgiving Union
14:55 Nov 26, 2024
38
Jack the Ripper - Part Two: Ripperology
55:47 Nov 19, 2024
39
Jack the Ripper - Part One: The Canonical Five
50:46 Nov 5, 2024
40
Devil Books and Murder Ballads: The Myth of the Arch-Killer
49:46 Oct 22, 2024
41
Special Presentation: Southern Gothic--The Forbidden Love of Annabel Lee
51:42 Oct 14, 2024
42
Anthropophagi: The Myth of Cannibalism
50:28 Oct 8, 2024
43
Slow-Motion Coup: Trump's Fake Electors Scheme
56:25 Sep 24, 2024
44
The Looming Threat of Fascism - Part Two: The Beer Hall Putsch
1:11:35 Sep 10, 2024
45
The Looming Threat of Fascism - Part One: The March on Rome
1:09:59 Aug 27, 2024
46
Dänikenitis - Part Two: Human Chauvinism
49:27 Aug 13, 2024
47
Dänikenitis - Part One: Wheels Within Wheels
45:57 Jul 30, 2024
48
Ancient High Technology - Part Two: Electric Boogaloo
51:46 Jul 23, 2024
49
Ancient High Technology - Part One: The Archimedean Spiral
40:16 Jul 16, 2024
50
Pyramidiocy - Part Six: Pyramid Schemes
1:13:23 Jul 9, 2024
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