Halloween Newspapers.com Dive pt. 1 with Sarah Marshall
It’s the beginning of Halloween season here at American Hysteria, and we are kicking it off with this two part episode cohosted by Sarah Marshall of You're Wrong About in which we play our favorite ga...
21 Syys 1h 23min
Let's Talk About Sex (Ed) with Margaret Grace Myers
For this Back to School episode, we are getting schooled in the history of sexual education by Margaret Grace Myers, author of The Fight for Sex Ed: The Century-Long Battle Between Truth and Doctrine....
14 Syys 1h 30min
Baby Got Backstory with Heather Radke
For this episode, we are covering the storied history of the Butt, that humorous, salacious, anxiety-inducing part of the body, the shape and meaning of which has changed depending on the time period....
7 Syys 1h 27min
Ye Olde Cleanse Diet with Zoë Rom of 'Your Diet Sucks'
For all of American history, we have been obsessed with the idea that what you eat is about more than just the purity of the body, it’s about a kind of metaphorical purity as well. For this episode, j...
31 Elo 1h 24min
Solar Storms and the Carrington Event with Ben Bradford of 'Are We Doomed?'
In 1859, a powerful solar storm known as the Carrington Event hit the world, disrupting early technology in a shocking way. Our guest today is Ben Bradford, host of the podcast Are We Doomed? A show t...
24 Elo 1h 5min
KU KLUX SCAM pt. 2
At the height of their popularity, the 1920s era Ku Klux Klux counted millions of Americans as part of their secret society, and as we covered in part one, became a kind of pop culture phenomenon usin...
17 Elo 1h 9min
KU KLUX SCAM pt. 1
We often think of the Ku Klux Klan as anonymous, masked vigilante terrorists, but for several years of the 1920s, joining their ranks was a mass pop cultural craze, leading to millions signing up and ...
10 Elo 1h 9min
Rednecks (rewind)
As a companion to our upcoming two part series, the topic of which we are not yet revealing, please enjoy this rerelease (2020) of one of our favorite episodes and one that is particularly meaningful ...
3 Elo 55min
