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Lectures in History

Conspiracy Culture in American History

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

History, Politics, News

4.1696 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Indiana University Bloomington professor Stephen Andrews taught a class about conspiracy culture in American history. He described how conspiracy theories have changed over time, but often include the involvement of groups such as the Illuminati, Freemasons, and Skull and Bones. He talked about how in the 1950s a prominent aspect of conspiracy theories was the threat of communism, but in later decades a global “New World Order” was a more common feature. This is the first of a two-part seminar hosted by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This week, a class on conspiracy culture in American history.

0:07.3

Indiana University professor Stephen Andrews discusses how conspiracy theories have changed over time.

0:13.1

Here he notes some of the conspiracies around 9-11.

0:16.0

So many of these claims about 9-11 that there were planted explosives,

0:20.5

that there was no plane that

0:22.0

hit the Pentagon, moving to levels of Luciferianism, that these were actually missiles and not

0:27.9

planes with holographic planes around them, depending on how far you want to stretch the kind

0:33.2

of unreality and the bounds of reality that they're going to use.

0:36.8

More with Professor Stephen Andrews in a moment.

0:42.2

Thank you guys so much.

0:43.5

I have been, this is my second year.

0:45.7

I also did some other things with the museum.

0:47.4

I like to thank everybody at the 9-11 Museum.

0:49.7

They're fantastic, as you all know.

0:51.8

So easy to work with.

0:53.1

Gilda Laramon is fantastic. The entire staff is

0:55.7

wonderful. It hit me last year, and I thought that maybe this year it would be different,

1:03.4

that I had already experienced the 9-11 museum, and now it would become old hat being in this

1:10.4

space, and it's not, right?

1:12.5

This space, as you know, as well as anybody over the last five days, is hallowed ground,

1:17.4

and it is a powerful place and a hard place in a sense to do something as mundane as give a lecture.

1:24.7

So I'm going to do my best to do that, and I say that because some of the things

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