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Today I'm joined by Professor C.J.

He is the host of the Dangerous History Podcast, which I was a guest on.

I highly recommend you check it out.

And I'm really excited to get into our topic of discussion today, which is how to study history.

And I think it's very relevant for obviously myself as a history podcaster and all of you

out there listening, all you amateur historians and history buff. So

Professor CJ, thank you so much for joining me today. You're welcome. My pleasure to be here.

So, you know, CJ, you're a professor of history. That's kind of your day job, if I'm correct.

Is that right? Right. When going about studying history, any topic of history, whether it be

Vikings, you know, the British Empire, you know, medieval things, ancient history, when going

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