Jeremy Vaeni’s First Dreamland: The Destruction of Native American Sites and Their Power, PLUS the Psychic Experiments of the Past Revisited

Historian Alicia Puglionesi joins us on Dreamland to discuss her book, In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire, which gives us the historically accurate origin of mound-builder myths in America and tells us why certain political and corporate powers promoted them. Then, for subscribers, we turn to her first book, Common Phantoms: An American History of Psychic Science, which draws on unexplored archives of participant-reported data to breathe new life into psychic experiments of the 1850s into the 20th century. Subscribe to UnknownCountry.com and explore with us!