Dead Ideas: The History of Extinct Thoughts and Practices

En podcast av B. T. Newberg and history nerd friends

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Komedi Samhälle och kultur Historia

120 Avsnitt

  1. A Haunted Christmas: Ghost Stories from Around the World – World History

    Publicerades: 2016-12-25

  2. Hypnotism: Dangers and Advantages in 1888 – PDT3K – French History

    Publicerades: 2016-12-18

  3. Hysteria II: The Women of Dr. Charcot’s Hospital – French History

    Publicerades: 2016-12-11

  4. Hysteria I: Women and Technology in Belle Époque France – French History

    Publicerades: 2016-12-04

  5. Bicycle Face: A Lady Cyclist Medical Scare in the 1890s – Women’s History

    Publicerades: 2016-11-27

  6. Miraculous Susan: A Thanksgiving Story from 1893 – PDT3K – American History

    Publicerades: 2016-11-20

  7. The Hammer of Witches (Malleus Maleficarum) – PDT3K – Women’s History

    Publicerades: 2016-11-13

  8. Anti-Witches II: Inquisition Trials and Eastern European Lore – Italian History

    Publicerades: 2016-11-06

  9. Anti-Witches I: The Benandanti and the Inquisition in Renaissance Italy – Italian History

    Publicerades: 2016-10-30

  10. Halloween in Ireland in 1886 – PDT3K – Irish History

    Publicerades: 2016-10-23

  11. Still Arguing Against Miasma in 1901 – PDT3K – American History

    Publicerades: 2016-10-16

  12. Miasma II: Court Cases from a Plague Year – Italian History

    Publicerades: 2016-10-09

  13. Miasma I: Plague and Mutated Air in Renaissance Italy – Italian History

    Publicerades: 2016-10-02

  14. “Savage” Man: Imagining Prehistory in 1873 – PDT3K – Modern History

    Publicerades: 2016-09-25

  15. Ginormous Stone Circles II: Making Sense of Stonehenge – British History

    Publicerades: 2016-09-18

  16. Ginormous Stone Circles I: Stonehenge Builders of Neolithic Britain – British History

    Publicerades: 2016-09-11

  17. Presenting Indian Asceticism to English-speakers in 1924 – PDT3K – Indian History

    Publicerades: 2016-09-06

  18. Reanimated Corpses II: Ajivika Story Time – Indian History

    Publicerades: 2016-09-06

  19. Reanimated Corpses I: The Ajivika of Ancient India – Indian History

    Publicerades: 2016-09-06

  20. Episode 00 WTF Is This Podcast About

    Publicerades: 2016-08-27

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We explore ideas and practices once believed to be true but no longer. Each dead idea is explored in all its glorious eccentricity. For example, discover miasma, the theory that plague comes from stinky air; or the medical diagnosis of hysteria, which holds that women's wombs wander around their bodies causing trouble. Join us on a fun romp through the history of ideas that didn’t quite stand the test of time.
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