Dead Ideas: The History of Extinct Thoughts and Practices
Podcast tekijän mukaan B. T. Newberg and history nerd friends

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120 Jaksot
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A Haunted Christmas: Ghost Stories from Around the World – World History
Julkaistiin: 25.12.2016 -
Hypnotism: Dangers and Advantages in 1888 – PDT3K – French History
Julkaistiin: 18.12.2016 -
Hysteria II: The Women of Dr. Charcot’s Hospital – French History
Julkaistiin: 11.12.2016 -
Hysteria I: Women and Technology in Belle Époque France – French History
Julkaistiin: 4.12.2016 -
Bicycle Face: A Lady Cyclist Medical Scare in the 1890s – Women’s History
Julkaistiin: 27.11.2016 -
Miraculous Susan: A Thanksgiving Story from 1893 – PDT3K – American History
Julkaistiin: 20.11.2016 -
The Hammer of Witches (Malleus Maleficarum) – PDT3K – Women’s History
Julkaistiin: 13.11.2016 -
Anti-Witches II: Inquisition Trials and Eastern European Lore – Italian History
Julkaistiin: 6.11.2016 -
Anti-Witches I: The Benandanti and the Inquisition in Renaissance Italy – Italian History
Julkaistiin: 30.10.2016 -
Halloween in Ireland in 1886 – PDT3K – Irish History
Julkaistiin: 23.10.2016 -
Still Arguing Against Miasma in 1901 – PDT3K – American History
Julkaistiin: 16.10.2016 -
Miasma II: Court Cases from a Plague Year – Italian History
Julkaistiin: 9.10.2016 -
Miasma I: Plague and Mutated Air in Renaissance Italy – Italian History
Julkaistiin: 2.10.2016 -
“Savage” Man: Imagining Prehistory in 1873 – PDT3K – Modern History
Julkaistiin: 25.9.2016 -
Ginormous Stone Circles II: Making Sense of Stonehenge – British History
Julkaistiin: 18.9.2016 -
Ginormous Stone Circles I: Stonehenge Builders of Neolithic Britain – British History
Julkaistiin: 11.9.2016 -
Presenting Indian Asceticism to English-speakers in 1924 – PDT3K – Indian History
Julkaistiin: 6.9.2016 -
Reanimated Corpses II: Ajivika Story Time – Indian History
Julkaistiin: 6.9.2016 -
Reanimated Corpses I: The Ajivika of Ancient India – Indian History
Julkaistiin: 6.9.2016 -
Episode 00 WTF Is This Podcast About
Julkaistiin: 27.8.2016
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.