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The historian Richard Hofstadter addressed the role of paranoia and conspiracism throughout American history in his essay The Paranoid Style in American Politics, published in 1964.

Bernard Bailyn's classic The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution ( 1967 ) notes that a similar phenomenon could be found in America during the time preceding the American Revolution.

Conspiracism labels people's attitudes as well as the type of conspiracy theories that are more global and historical in proportion.