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Mike Duncan (podcaster)

American historian and podcaster

Michael William Duncan (born February 14, 1980) is an American political history podcaster and author. A self-described "complete history geek",^[2] after not finding any Roman history podcasts in 2007, Duncan began The History of Rome, a narrative podcast chronicling events from the founding of Rome until the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. The podcast concluded in 2012. A year later he began Revolutions, which ran for ten seasons over the course of nine years, covering the American, French, and Russian revolutions, among others. The series' second phase ended in July 2022 and was followed by a nearly two-year hiatus before the series returned on 22 October 2024 with a fictional account of a prospective Martian Revolution.^[3] On 16 December 2024, Duncan announced that he was continuing work on the Revolutions podcast, declaring that the Martian Revolution season would be the "intermission" of the podcast and that he would return to telling the stories of real revolutions afterwards.^[4]

In addition to podcasting, Duncan is the author of two history books. In 2017, Duncan wrote The Storm Before the Storm, which was well reviewed and appeared on The New York Times Best Se

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The History of Rome (podcast)

History podcast by Mike Duncan

Not to be confused with History of Rome.

Podcast

The History of Rome (THoR)

Hosted by	Mike Duncan
Genre	History
Language	English
Length	Usually 15–30 minutes (range 11:23–43:36) Total Runtime: 73 hours
Audio format	MP3
No. of episodes	179
Original release	July 27, 2007 (2007-07-27) – May 6, 2012 (2012-05-06)

The History of Rome, often abbreviated THoR, was a podcast created by Mike Duncan which aired between 2007 and 2012.^[1] In the 2010 podcast awards, THoR won best educational podcast. THoR covers the time period from the origin of the Roman Kingdom to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, focusing on the most accepted chain of events according to historical consensus.

Origins

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Duncan came up with the idea of THoR during a plane flight and subsequent vacation. He was impressed by 12 Byzantine Rulers, a podcast by Lars Brownworth,^[2] however, he struggled to find anything similar on the history of Rome. Duncan had a longstanding interest in Roman history and was reading The War With Hannibal by Livy at the time.^[3] He enjoyed many of the historical episodes he encountered in the book, but realized tha