E7: The Death of the Southwest Conference

In this episode, student historians Viktor Lord Harrington, Lauren Flores, and Samuel Saenz tackle a myth propagated by the twentieth-century psychologist Sigmund Freud. Freud argued in an early twentieth-century lecture that the early modern revolution in astronomy which placed the sun, rather than the earth, at the center of the universe, had a profound effect…

In this episode, Whitney Kay, Merit Wagstaff, and Abby Pruns tackle the myth that when Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, he and his crew—and everyone else in Europe at the time—believed the earth was flat. Sources Cited in this Episode Cohen, Richard. Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past. Simon &…

In this episode, Cooper Moog, Remington Strickland, and Wyatt Franz tackle the myth that the medieval church prohibited human dissection, supposedly setting back the progress of modern medicine by centuries. Sources Cited in this Episode Croce, Paul Jerome. “Probabilistic Darwinism: Louis Agassiz vs. Asa Gray on Science, Religion, and Certainty.” Journal of Religious History 22,…