Cynical Historian
YouTube Star
History buff who has gained fame for his The Cynical Historian YouTube channel. He has earned more than 23 million total views for his video essays documenting real-life historical events alongside analyses of films in his "Based on a True Story" series.
He earned his BA in history from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas in 2012. He created his YouTube channel in 2013.
He has amassed more than 220,000 total subscribers on YouTube. He worked as a graduate assistant at the University of New Mexico, where he also enrolled as a PhD candidate in history, in 2017.
His full birth name is Joseph Hall-Patton.
He and Tom Richey are both their history educators on YouTube.