Episode 062 Bunk! Hoaxes, Humbug, Flim Flam, and Fake News in US History
This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, we explore the rise of hoaxes, humbug, plagiarists, phonies, post-facts,…
This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, we explore the rise of hoaxes, humbug, plagiarists, phonies, post-facts, and fake news, beginning in the early 19th century. All societies are susceptible to hoaxes and scams, but there seems to be something about America’s culture of striving and reinvention that makes its people particularly…
This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, we explore the rise of hoaxes, humbug, plagiarists, phonies, post-facts,…
This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, we explore the story of the largest slave auction in…
This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, It’s our annual St Patrick’s Day episode. In this episode,…
This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, we present Part 3 of our multi-episode examination of the…
This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, we present Part 2 of our multi-episode examination of the…
This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, we begin a multi-episode look at that fascinating period known…
This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, we look at the complicated history of black athletes in…
This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, we look at the history of one of the more…
This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, we look at the fractious and imperfect, but also quite…
This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, we look at how in the decades before the Civil…