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'History of Rome' Gets Published 2016-06-09 19:12:04 Post No. 1263511
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So Mike Duncan is compiling and publishing all the transcripts from the History of Rome Podcast in a four-volume set. http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/2016/06/the-history-of-rome-vol-i-the-republic.html
He's also writing "The Storm Before The Storm" about what led to the conditions that allowed Augustus to turn the world's most famous anti-monarchist republic into a monarchy. [spoiler]It's also doing some classic historical writing and trying to place America somewhere along the timeline of Roman history, to see what the possible future might be[/spoiler]
http://www.adweek.com/galleycat/podcast-host-mike-duncan-inks-book-deal/110975
Has he crossed the line into 'actual historian' yet, or at least 'more respected than Dan Carlin'? Also, general hype. For all the errors in the first episodes (which are being corrected in the book) I thought he did a good job of moving at a respectable speed through centuries of history and drawing out some important lessons.
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Historians are not describers of the past. Historians do research. They try to explain the past according to the surviving evidence. Some historians do create textbooks and descriptive non fiction works about the past, but creating these kind of works does not make one their author an historian. Therefore, Mike Duncan is not an historian.
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So Hans Delbrück is not a historian because he draws conclusions?
Historiography of any scope shows far more people taking in data, interpreting it, and demonstrating conclusions (especially trying to apply past situations to present events) than it shows academic machines who put out bland paste without offering some sort if interpretation (and that many who try still fall prey to their own inherent biases).
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He's crossed over into the Tom Holland or John Julius Norwich level of "popular writer of history" but not a historian.
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