Back for round three, we're taking on three quick topics this time--the early nineteenth century's obsessions with the nefarious doings of the Masons, the mid-nineteenth century panic about Catholics overrunning our precious, lily-white Protestant republic, and the pre-WWII anti-semitic fervor that frankly couldn't have come at a worse time. It's a cavalcade of ridiculous historical paranoid nonsense to temporarily distract you from the contemporary, ridiculous paranoid nonsense that haunts your every waking moment. Email us at theparanoidstrain at gmail dot com, join the FB group, and keep spreading the word about us to your cleverest friends and neighbors.

 

Notes:

• Bernard Bailin: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
• Thomas Konda: Conspiracies of Conspiracies
• David Brion Davis: Fear of Conspiracy

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