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American Prestige

Bonus - The State of History in America w/ Mike Duncan (Preview)

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8705 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Subscribe now for the full episode. At the "Top Secret" tier, you get a 1-year digital subscription to The Nation! Danny and Derek are pleased to welcome to the podcast Mike Duncan, history podcaster and author, to talk about where history stands in the American academy, popular culture, and public consciousness. They discuss the trials and tribulations of producing a history podcast, the relationship between academic history and history media, the neoliberalization of academia, AI and the crisis of humanism, the unlikely prospect of a leftist revolution in 2025 America, and more. Be sure to check out Mike’s Revolutions and The History of Rome podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm making a robot head with an Amazon box.

0:03.0

I've painted it silver and Daddy helped me make it.

0:05.0

At Amazon, we're actually using paper bags for more of our deliveries.

0:08.0

And now I'm making a paper hot air balloon

0:11.0

and I even made a little brown basket

0:13.0

and I'm making a dog that looks just like Monty.

0:16.0

Just one of the ways we've reduced the weight of our packaging by more than 40% since 2015,

0:20.0

which is still good for playtime.

0:22.1

Mom, where's the scissors?

0:25.6

To learn more, visit aboutamason.co.cote.U.K. That's conversation.

0:39.5

To be a song.

0:40.1

Thank you.

0:40.8

Hello, Prestige Heads.

0:52.5

I am joined, as always, by my friend and comrade Danny Bessner,

0:56.3

and we are very pleased, very excited actually, to welcome to the program. One of the OG Titans

1:02.4

of podcasting and especially of history podcasting, Mike Duncan is here. Mike, if you are unfamiliar

1:08.8

and how could you be, but he is the host of the history of

1:11.7

Rome and Revolutions, which is currently in a series on a fictional Martian Revolution. Excellent stuff.

1:17.9

You should check it out. He's also the author of the Storm Before the Storm on the period leading

1:22.0

into the fall of the Roman Republic and Hero of Two Worlds on the Marquis de Lafayette.

1:27.2

Mike, thank you so much for coming on the program.

1:29.8

Thanks very much for having me.

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