About Mike Duncan
Historian, podcaster and author. Two long-running narrative history shows and two books.
Mike Duncan grew up outside of Seattle and has a degree in political science from Western Washington University. In 2007 he went looking for a Roman history podcast, did not find one, and made The History of Rome. It ran until 2012.
A year later he started Revolutions. Ten seasons of narrative history followed, from the English Revolution of the 1640s to the Russian Revolution, then an appendix on what all of them share.
In October 2024 the show came back with a twelfth season, a history of a Martian revolution in the year 2247, told in the same style as every season before it.
The Books
The Storm Before the StormHow the Roman Republic began to come apart, a century before Caesar.
Hero of Two WorldsThe Marquis de Lafayette, from the American Revolution to the July Revolution.
Mike on CBS Mornings, talking about Lafayette and Hero of Two Worlds.
