Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

By Samuel Biagetti

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Lynn Adams
 Jul 23, 2018
I just discovered your program and listened to the segments regarding the writing of the Bible. I thought it was great, well researched and nicely presented. Good Job!

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History lectures by Samuel Biagetti, a historian (and antique dealer) with a Phd in early American history; my dissertation was on Freemasonry in the 1700s. I focus on the historical myths and distortions, from "the Middle Ages" to "Race," that people use to rationalize the world in which we live. More info at www.historiansplaining.com Please see my Patreon page, https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5530632, if you want to keep the lectures coming, and to hear the patron-only materials.

Episode Date
Myth of the Month 22: Culture
May 08, 2024
Audio from video -- "Red White and Royal Blue" pt. 1 -- The Historical Context of RWRB
May 07, 2024
Origins of the First World War, pt. 12 -- War Planning & Strategy
Apr 20, 2024
Origins of the First World War, pt. 11 -- The 19th-Century Revolution in Warfare
Mar 26, 2024
Article: "In the American Tempest: Democracy, Conspiracy, & Machine"
Mar 09, 2024
Teaser: "Origins of the First World War -- pt. 10: Japan"
Mar 02, 2024
Audio track from video -- Red White & Royal Blue: A Historian's Analysis -- Intro
Feb 22, 2024
UNLOCKED: The Great Archaeological Discoveries, pt. 6 -- Early Audio Recordings
Jan 30, 2024
Origins of the First World War, pt. 9 -- Great Britain
Jan 20, 2024
2023 in Historical Context: Dividing the Harvest
Dec 29, 2023
Origins of the First World War, pt. 8 -- France
Dec 20, 2023
Myth of the Month 23: UFOs
Nov 19, 2023
Unlocked: History of US in 100 Objects #20 -- Silver Beaker with Devil and Pope Figures
Nov 17, 2023
Origins of the First World War, pt. 7 -- Belgium & Luxembourg
Oct 20, 2023
TEASER: Origins of the First World War, pt. 6 -- Germany
Oct 03, 2023
Survey of Western Architecture, pt. 3 -- audio track
Sep 22, 2023
History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 22: The Makauwahi Stone Mirror / Kilo Pohaku
Aug 30, 2023
Origins of the First World War, pt. 5 -- Russia
Aug 17, 2023
UNLOCKED -- Myth of the Month 20: Conspiracy Theories
Aug 12, 2023
Doorways in Time: The Great Archaeological Finds -- 7: The Antikythera Mechanism
Jul 29, 2023
Teaser: Origins of the 1st World War -- Bosnia & the Assassination
Jul 21, 2023
Origins of the First World War, pt. 3 -- Austria-Hungary
Jun 27, 2023
Survey of Western Architecture, pt. 2 -- audio track
Jun 21, 2023
Interpreting Solomon's Temple
May 28, 2023
UNLOCKED: The Great Archaeological Discoveries, pt. 4 -- The Library of Ashurbanipal
May 26, 2023
Origins of the First World War, pt. 2 -- Serbia
May 22, 2023
Teaser -- Myth of the Month 22: Culture
May 11, 2023
Origins of the First World War, pt. 1 -- The Ottoman Empire
Apr 30, 2023
India, pt. 3 -- The Rise of the South & the Islamic Conquests
Apr 15, 2023
Video lecture: Survey of Western Architecture, pt. 1, audio track
Mar 13, 2023
History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 21: The Braddock/Washington Pistol
Feb 26, 2023
The Vikings, pt. 2 -- Into Distant Realms
Feb 11, 2023
Update & teaser: Doorways in Time, #6 -- Early Audio Recordings
Feb 03, 2023
UNLOCKED: Hist. of the U.S. in 100 Objects -- 18: Jesuit Brass Medallion with I. Loyola
Jan 21, 2023
The Vikings, pt. 1 -- In the Norsemen's World
Jan 18, 2023
2022 in Historical Context -- How Do You Like Your New Gilded Age?
Dec 30, 2022
Myth of the Month 21: The Old West
Dec 16, 2022
Update: Historiansplaining in Crisis, & Teaser: Silver Beaker with Devil & Pope Figures
Dec 07, 2022
Monarchy, Honours, and the Molding of Modern Society -- A Conversation with Tobias Harper
Nov 20, 2022
UNLOCKED: Robin Hood, pt. 2: Capturing the Outlaw
Nov 03, 2022
James II & the "Glorious Revolution"
Oct 29, 2022
Doorways in Time: The Great Archaeological Finds -- 5: Gobekli Tepe
Oct 17, 2022
Fortresses on Sand: The History of Florida -- pt. 6
Sep 29, 2022
Latin America Inverts the World Map: A Conversation With Margarita Fajardo
Sep 16, 2022
China, pt. 2 -- Water and Music: Early Chinese Philosophy
Aug 30, 2022
Teaser -- Myth of the Month 20: Conspiracy Theories
Aug 14, 2022
Unlocked: Doorways in Time, 2 -- Nag Hammadi Library and the Gnostic Gospels
Aug 01, 2022
Fortresses on Sand: The History of Florida -- pt. 5
Jul 29, 2022
China, pt. 1 -- Making the Middle Kingdom
Jul 14, 2022
History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 19: Three Silver Higa Amulets, mid-1700s
Jun 20, 2022
UNLOCKED: History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 16: The "PW" Hadley Chest, 1690-1710
Jun 10, 2022
Fortresses on Sand: The History of Florida -- pt. 4
Jun 09, 2022
Taking Stock of 5 Years of Historiansplaining, & Teaser: The Library of Ashurbanipal
Jun 03, 2022
Fortresses on Sand: The History of Florida -- pt. 3
May 12, 2022
Myth of the Month 19: The Holy Grail -- pt. 2
Apr 27, 2022
Myth of the Month 19: The Holy Grail -- pt. 1
Apr 21, 2022
Myth of the Month 16: The Founding Fathers
Apr 01, 2022
Fortresses on Sand: The History of Florida -- pt. 2
Mar 26, 2022
Dissecting the "Dawn of Everything" -- A Conversation with Geoff Shullenberger
Mar 19, 2022
Fortresses on Sand: The History of Florida -- pt. 1
Feb 22, 2022
Update, and Teaser: Jesuit Brass Medallion with Ignatius Loyola
Feb 18, 2022
Uncovering the Medieval Slave Trade -- A Conversation with Hannah Barker
Jan 15, 2022
2021 in Historical Context -- Global Crisis, Labor Unrest, and "It's A Wonderful Life"
Dec 29, 2021
History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 14: The Winthrop Alchemical Physician's Chair
Dec 20, 2021
Blood and Oil: The History of Tulsa
Dec 14, 2021
Unlocked: Myth of the Month 14: Astrology
Dec 05, 2021
Doorways in Time: The Great Archaeological Finds -- 3: The Terracotta Army & the Tomb of Qin
Dec 04, 2021
Taking Stock of Money in Politics: The Powell Memo Fifty Years Later
Nov 16, 2021
Myth of the Month 18: Robin Hood -- pt. 1: The Master of the Forest
Nov 01, 2021
India -- pt. 2: Foundations of Hinduism
Oct 16, 2021
India -- pt. 1: Creating Civilization in South Asia
Sep 30, 2021
History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 17: The Hiawatha Belt
Sep 14, 2021
Unlocked: History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 12: The Naylor Bowling Ball, 1670-1700
Sep 11, 2021
Chasidic Judaism: What is it and where did it come from?
Sep 04, 2021
Doorposts and Gates: How Jews Have Subdivided Themselves Through History
Aug 29, 2021
The Green Knight: History, Myth, and Modern Shame -- A Historian's View
Aug 12, 2021
Before Jamestown: When England Colonized the Amazon -- A Conversation with Melissa Morris
Aug 06, 2021
Thank you to patrons & Teaser: The Nag Hammadi Library and the Gnostic Gospels
Jul 30, 2021
UNLOCKED: Myth of the Month 12, Finale: The Historical King Arthur
Jul 24, 2021
1066: Sailing Into the Storm
Jul 13, 2021
Dutch Batavia and the Ideology of Early Modern Empire -- A Conversation with Deborah Hamer
Jul 09, 2021
Myth of the Month 17: Anglo-Saxonism
Jun 27, 2021
History of the British and Irish Travellers
Jun 15, 2021
History of the Roma ("Gypsies"), part 1 -- From Ancient Origins to the Eighteenth Century
May 14, 2021
Doorways in Time: The Great Archaeological Finds -- 1: The Sutton Hoo Treasure
Apr 30, 2021
Freemasonry -- Its Growth and Spread Before 1789
Apr 18, 2021
War & Pandemic, a Historian's Perspective; and Teaser: "The Founding Fathers"
Apr 06, 2021
Emergency Podcast: The Royal Crisis in Historical Context
Mar 13, 2021
The Voynich Manuscript, the "World's Most Mysterious Book" -- A Historian's View -- pt. 2
Mar 04, 2021
History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 15: The Newport Spirit Bundle, 1700s
Feb 22, 2021
The Sabbatai Zevi Messianic Movement
Feb 14, 2021
The Voynich Manuscript, the "World's Most Mysterious Book" -- A Historian's View -- pt. 1
Feb 11, 2021
Myth of the Month 15: "The State"
Jan 27, 2021
UNLOCKED: History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 10: The Peregrine White Cradle, ca. 1620
Jan 26, 2021
Creating the Caribbean -- The Colonial West Indies, pt. 1, 1496-1697
Jan 13, 2021
Unlocked: Myth of the Month 10, pt. 4: the Shakespeare Authorship Controversy
Jan 09, 2021
Special Comment: Our Wonderful Year; & Teaser: The Winthrop Alchemical Physician's Chair
Dec 29, 2020
The early church, pt. 2 -- Houses Divided
Dec 17, 2020
The Early Church, pt. 1 -- Christianity on the Road
Dec 14, 2020
TEASER -- Myth of the Month 14: Astrology
Dec 07, 2020
Age of Absolutism 3: Bourbon France, 1589-1789
Nov 21, 2020
Colonial Latin America -- The Baroque Age, 1542-1764
Nov 10, 2020
History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 13: Dutch Iron Fireback with a Robed Figure
Oct 27, 2020
England, Interrupted: The Interregnum and Restoration, 1650-1685
Oct 13, 2020
Myth of the Month 13: Feudalism
Sep 29, 2020
Scientific Revolution, Part 2 -- The New Powers, 1660-1800
Sep 16, 2020
Anglo-Saxon England and the Vikings, 757-1066
Sep 08, 2020
The Origins of Policing -- from the Middle Ages to the First World War
Aug 25, 2020
The Trials of Bolivia: A Conversation with Oliver Rhoads Murphey
Aug 12, 2020
Updates, Thank You, and Teaser: The Historical King Arthur
Aug 04, 2020
Unlocked: History of the United States in 100 Objects, 8 -- Pueblo Communion Chalice
Jul 29, 2020
Myth of the Month 12: The Arthur Cycle -- pt. 2: The Rise and Fall of Camelot
Jul 16, 2020
Myth of the Month 12: The Arthur Cycle -- pt. 1: Creating "King Arthur"
Jul 13, 2020
Unlocked: Myth of the Month 8: "The West"
Jul 07, 2020
Crossing the Waters: Britain in the Dark Age
Jun 11, 2020
History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 11: Human-Effigy War Club, ca. 1640s
May 26, 2020
The Spanish Flu, pt. 2 -- The Great Flu and Modern Memory, 1920-2020
May 05, 2020
The Spanish Flu, pt. 1 -- A World in Ashes, 1918-1920
Apr 29, 2020
Myth of the Month 11: The "1619 Project" and the place of slavery in American history
Mar 30, 2020
Special Comment, and How are my listeners?
Mar 23, 2020
Through a Glass Darkly: The 1980s in Current Television -- A Conversation with Sonia Saraiya
Feb 17, 2020
Back to the Dark Age: How People Adapted to the Fall of the Roman Empire
Feb 06, 2020
History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 6: Bronze Cannon with Fleur-de-Lis Emblem, 1540s
Feb 03, 2020
Beyond Plymouth Rock: The Deep Beginnings of New England -- A Conversation with Michael J. Simpson
Jan 15, 2020
Teaser -- Myth of the Month 10: The Shakespeare Authorship Controversy
Jan 10, 2020
Unlocked: Myth of the Month 6: Political Left and Right
Dec 29, 2019
Myth of the Month 10: Who Was Shakespeare? -- pt. 3: "The Maiden's Organ"
Dec 15, 2019
Myth of the Month 10: Who Was Shakespeare? -- pt. 2: "Comfort and Despair"
Dec 10, 2019
Myth of the Month 10: Who Was Shakespeare? -- pt. 1: The Monument and the Man
Nov 13, 2019
History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 9: Bartmann Jug with Guelph Coat-of-Arms, 1600-1610
Oct 14, 2019
The Road to Civil War: Class Conflict and Constitutional Crisis in Stuart England, 1603-1650
Sep 28, 2019
Myth of the Month 9: The US Constitution and the Origins of the Senate and Electoral College
Sep 09, 2019
History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 4: The Maine Norse Coin
Aug 29, 2019
In the Ocean of Land: The History of Central Asia -- pt. 2
Aug 13, 2019
In the Ocean of Land: The History of Central Asia -- pt. 1
Aug 08, 2019
Freemasonry -- Its Origins, Its Myths, and Its Rituals
Jul 24, 2019
Update And Teaser for "Myth of the Month 8: The West"
Jul 11, 2019
Myth of the Month 4: Secularization -- or, Send in the Nones!
Jun 11, 2019
Age of Absolutism 2: Tudor England, 1485-1603
Jun 06, 2019
History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 7: The Dorion Mission Seal, ca. 1680s
May 21, 2019
History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 2: Statuette of a Farming Goddess, ca. 1100 AD
May 17, 2019
Special Comment: Monarchy, Magic, and the Modern Romance of "Game of Thrones"
May 10, 2019
Notre Dame and the Nine Lives of Gothic Cathedrals
Apr 21, 2019
Myth of the Month 2: The Exodus
Apr 02, 2019
Myth of The Month 7: Game of Thrones
Mar 24, 2019
History of Universities, Part 2: A Crumbling Tower?
Mar 08, 2019
History of Universities, Part 1: Flower of the Middle Ages
Feb 26, 2019
Book Review: "Why Liberalism Failed" -- Part 2
Jan 13, 2019
Book Review: "Why Liberalism Failed" -- Part 1
Jan 13, 2019
Special Comment: The "Sokal Squared" Hoax and the Academic Cult
Nov 29, 2018
History of the United States in 100 Objects -- 5: Set of Chevron-Patterned Glass Beads, ca. 1500
Nov 12, 2018
Update to Listeners, Thanks to Patrons, and Happy Birthday to Mom
Nov 06, 2018
Age of Absolutism 1: Central Europe and the Rise of the Habsburgs
Sep 09, 2018
Myth of the Month 5: Capitalism
Aug 22, 2018
Scientific Revolution, Part 1 -- Alchemy and Apocalypse, 1500-1660
Aug 10, 2018
The History of Scotland, the Romance of Scotland, and "Outlander"
Jul 24, 2018
Age of Ice and Fire: The General Crisis Of The Seventeenth Century
Jun 07, 2018
Witchcraft and the Great Witch-Hunt, 1484-1700
Apr 19, 2018
Renaissance Humanism
Mar 22, 2018
Update and a Challenge to My Listeners
Mar 04, 2018
The Myths We Make: Using the past as an ideological tool
Mar 01, 2018
Spanish and Portuguese Expansion and the Conquest of the Americas
Feb 15, 2018
The Print and Gunpowder Revolutions, 1300-1700
Jan 23, 2018
Book Review: "The Strange Death of Europe" -- Part 1
Jan 07, 2018
Islam 1: Muhammad, the first Caliphate, and the core teachings
Nov 20, 2017
In Search of the Dawn: Human Prehistory
Oct 24, 2017
Goodbye to Catalonia?
Oct 10, 2017
Martin Luther: Shout at the Devil
Oct 02, 2017
Columbus -- The Tragedy and the Enigma
Sep 19, 2017
The Confederacy -- Its Roots and Its Legacies
Aug 22, 2017
The Historical Jesus
Aug 17, 2017
Who Wrote the Bible? -- Hebrew Scriptures
Jul 30, 2017
Judaism -- What Is It and Where Did It Come From?
Jul 18, 2017
Middle Ages 11: The Pulsating Body -- The Medieval World View
Jul 06, 2017
Middle Ages 9: Knowledge and Ignorance in the Middle Ages (and Today)
Jun 01, 2017
Middle Ages 7: The Later Crusades and Their Legacies
May 17, 2017
Middle Ages 5: The Crusades -- Why Did They Happen?
May 03, 2017
Middle Ages 3: the High Middle Ages
Apr 20, 2017
Middle Ages 1: Exploding the Myth of the Middle Ages
Apr 05, 2017