Historical Blindness
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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Scapegoated! A History of American Nativism

Scapegoated! A History of American Nativism

As Trump ramps up his immigration raids in California and brings the armed forces to bear against peaceful citizen protesters, I want to talk more about the long, racist history behind similar immigra...

17 Kesä 202550min

Inalienable: Alien Enemies, the Great Writ, and Trump's Constitutional Crisis

Inalienable: Alien Enemies, the Great Writ, and Trump's Constitutional Crisis

In this episode, I discuss the history of the controversial wartime power that Trump has invoked to justify his mass deportations and the importance of the inalienable rights of due process and habeas...

3 Kesä 20251h 4min

Gaslighter! Trump's Historical Distortions

Gaslighter! Trump's Historical Distortions

In this episode, in response to Trump's order supposedly "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History," I look at the many ways he and his handlers/enablers distort and whitewash history and "sanew...

20 Touko 202545min

Tariff Men: A History of the US in Tariff Controversies

Tariff Men: A History of the US in Tariff Controversies

In this episode, I tell the history of the US through the history of controversial tariff policies, and I examine speculation about the motivations behind Trump's disastrous tariff hikes. For an ea...

6 Touko 202548min

Darkness Came: the Myths of Easter and Good Friday

Darkness Came: the Myths of Easter and Good Friday

From claims about the pagan origins of Easter traditions to biblical literalists asserting that the miraculous darkness at the crucifixion is historically provable, I explode all kinds of myths in thi...

22 Huhti 202553min

The Legend of Joan, Popess of Rome

The Legend of Joan, Popess of Rome

Throughout the Middle Ages and the Reformation, a story was told of the first female Pope, who had hidden her sex and been elevated to the highest position within the Church by accident. The story of ...

8 Huhti 202543min

Empress Elagabalus

Empress Elagabalus

In the face of trans erasure and genocide, this episode affirms the existence of transgender people throughout history, focusing on the trans empress of the Roman Empire, long misgendered and called E...

25 Maalis 202557min

The Erasure of Aspasia

The Erasure of Aspasia

An examination of Aspasia, a woman of ancient Athens who was universally agreed to have been extremely influential in politics and philosophy, depicted as both a harlot and a sage. Get 3 months of pr...

11 Maalis 202558min

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