Intro -- Revolutionary Conspiracies -- Conspiracy in the Revolutionary Era (1760-1798) -- Illuminating Mythology -- The Illuminati in Reality and Fantasy (1776-Present) -- The Boys' Club -- The Freemasons and the Anti-Freemason Movement (1820-Present) -- The Popish Plots -- Fear of Romanism and the Power of the Papacy (1830-Present) -- Think of the Children -- Catholic Abuse and Sexual Perversion in Conspiracy Theories (1836-Present) -- A Deadly Fear -- The Origin of the Anti-Vaccination Movement (1879-Present) -- The Gold Gamblers -- The Populist Party and the International Gold Ring (1895-Present) -- The Myths of Zion -- Jewish Conspiracies and the Threat of Zionism (1903-Present) -- Anti-Capitalism -- The Anarchist Movement and the Threat to Capitalism (1901-Present) -- The New World Order -- The First Red Scare and the New World Order (1915-Present) -- Denying Genocide -- Holocaust Denial in the Past and Present (1941-Present) -- Fears of the Establishment -- The Red Scare and McCarthyism (1945-Present) -- Psychological Warfare -- U.S. Drug Experimentation (1953-Present) -- Desert Visions -- Area 51 and the Alien Conspiracies (1955-Present) -- The Umbrella Man -- Kennedy Assassination Conspiracies (1963-Present) -- Death of a Dream -- Conspiracies of the Civil Rights Movement (1968-Present) -- Bad Moon Rising -- The Moon Landing Hoax (1969-Present) -- The October Surprise -- The Reagan Era and the Iran Conspiracy (1980-Present) -- Satanic Influence -- Spiritualism, Satanism, and the 1980s Satanist Scare (1980-Present) -- The Gay Plague -- Conspiracy Theories about HIV/AIDS (1981-Present) -- An Existential Threat -- The Conspiracy to Sow Doubt about Climate Change (1996-Present) -- Spectrum of Distrust -- The Vaccine Autism Scare (1998-Present) -- Cold-Blooded Politics -- The Reptile Conspiracy (1999-Present) -- The Three Towers.

Conspiracy Theories about 9/11 (2001-Present) -- Gun Control as a Conspiracy -- The Sandy Hook Massacre and the Gun Control Movement (2012-Present) -- How Not to Protect Children -- The QAnon Movement (2017-Present) -- The Conspiracy Pandemic -- The COVID Pandemic and Science Denial (2019-Present) -- The Big Lie -- The 2020 Presidential Election Controversy (2020-Present) -- Conclusion -- Flattening the Earth -- Notes -- Primary & -- Secondary Sources -- Glossary -- Historical Snapshots -- Bibliography -- About the Author -- Index.