Leland Gregory

Leland Gregory is a humor writer known for collecting blunders, misconceptions, quotations, and episodes in which confidence outruns judgment. Stupid History turns that method toward familiar stories about the past. The book challenges claims about Paul Revere, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, and Isaac Newton, pairing corrections with comic reversals. In 2007, Andrews McMeel Publishing issued it under the subtitle Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions Through the Ages. Gregory organizes the material as compact entries that make disputed facts memorable. The volume belongs to his larger Stupid series, alongside Stupid American History, Stupid Science, Stupid Sports, and Stupid Christmas. His subject is less ignorance than the persistence of a good story after evidence complicates it. Trivia and punch lines place Stupid History between popular reference, myth busting, and observational comedy.