There is a History of Byzantium podcast that bills itself as a continuation of the History of Rome (different dude, though.)
http://thehistoryofbyzantium.wordpress.com/
― Binders Full of Mittens (President Keyes), Monday, 26 November 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks, I'll definitely check that out.
― silverfish, Monday, 26 November 2012 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
Was tipped off to The History Of Oil podcast by the current AV Club Podmass. I'm a couple episodes in (they're short - about 20min each) and it's worth a listen. He's pretty much going through Yergin's The Prize in sequence, but with a more macro-political eye. Only complaint is that I wish the guy would be mindful that he's speaking to a listener, rather than 100% focus on reading from the text but I'm being picky. Anyway, I maintain that knowing about oil is as important as knowing about the Cold War. Check it out...
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 1 June 2013 00:33 (ten years ago) link
Also the Wrath of the Kahns Hardcore History series is really good
^^^^^^^^ on this. Don't miss it.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 1 June 2013 00:34 (ten years ago) link
JB Shreve Presents the End of History is a pretty interesting podcast-- the guy picks a topic of contemporary interest--the Middle East crisis, Economic inequality--and goes in depth into the history of it over the course of 20 episodes or so.
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Saturday, 1 June 2013 01:27 (ten years ago) link
That sounds good-- how's the person talking? (I strongly prefer super dry humorless commentary if it matters)
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Saturday, 1 June 2013 02:59 (ten years ago) link
He's closer to a Dan Carlin style, though more subdued.
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Saturday, 1 June 2013 09:53 (ten years ago) link
history of Rome guy is starting a new podcast in September:
Yes the next show is called Revolutions. I'm going to take 8-12 revolutions and cover them in 12-15 episode chunks. So if the History of Rome was a novel, this will be more like a collection of stories.I'm still working on the final list, but I'm sure to cover: English, American, French, Haitian, 1848, Mexican, Russian, Chinese, Cuban.
I'm still working on the final list, but I'm sure to cover: English, American, French, Haitian, 1848, Mexican, Russian, Chinese, Cuban.
http://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/1fff0g/hello_i_am_mike_duncan_creator_of_the_history_of/
should be interesting
― silverfish, Monday, 3 June 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link
what's his story -- how does he have time to school podcast listeners about the history of rome and 8-12 revolutions in his downtime?
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 3 June 2013 15:25 (ten years ago) link
(i like him btw -- just wondering whether he is a professional historian/teacher/if he works at the apple store/what his deal is)
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 3 June 2013 15:26 (ten years ago) link
Def. an amateur historian
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Monday, 3 June 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
from what I read in that ask me anything, he is an amateur historian and stay at home dad
― silverfish, Monday, 3 June 2013 15:53 (ten years ago) link
He is a really good lecture organizer, always repeating key takeaway points and breaking major events down into operations, followed by the significance of the operations/events.
He should be making some $$ for helping to make ancient history comprehensible and enjoyable without resorting to LCD tactics like splashy blood/boobz.
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 3 June 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, after finishing History of Rome and trying out a bunch of other history podcasts, I've really come to appreciate how good he is.
― silverfish, Monday, 3 June 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
yeah I just started digging into History of Rome finally, and am really impressed by the way he organizes his episodes and always does a very nice encapsulation of what's been covered
AND so genius to have them in short 10-15 minute chunks. Much less daunting, and he's not drowning you in how smart he is.
also he doesn't randomly SHOUT AT ME like Rush Limbaugh I mean Dan Carlin
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 June 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
the quiet/loud thing Dan Carlin does is actually really good at holding my attention. With something like the History of Rome I occasionally zone out and then have to rewind.
― silverfish, Monday, 3 June 2013 16:32 (ten years ago) link
i love carlin - he reminds me a lot of our own michaelangelo matos - but he does this thing i CAN'T STAND --> whenever he quotes someone (which is lot; it's a history podcast) he suddenly adopts this weird stentorian loudspeaker voice, like he's announcing the starting lineup for the new york yankees ABSOLUTELY REGARDLESS of whatever the quoted material is, or what tone it has, or what it's about, or when it was written. it is TERRIBLE. you already are a stickler for saying "quote" and "endquote", dan, so the tone of voice change is TOTALLY UNNECESSARY. GAH
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 3 June 2013 16:33 (ten years ago) link
that would drive me BANANASi like history of rome guy because he talks like a person under 50, naturally, slowly, and without editorializing. i have an idea that he's proooobably pretty good looking and i'd like to keep it that way.
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 3 June 2013 16:36 (ten years ago) link
yeah LL you would not like Carlin
and Tracer OTM, I even played a clip of him for Mr Veg because it was cracking me op the way he would 'perform' the quotes, it is so hilarious and distracting and weird.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 June 2013 16:38 (ten years ago) link
I was actually listening to an early Hardcore History podcast a couple of weeks ago (I think it was the bubonic nukes episode) and they did this ridiculous voice of doom vocal effect whenever Dan Carlin quoted anything, which made his quoting 100x worse than usual.
― silverfish, Monday, 3 June 2013 16:42 (ten years ago) link
Scare quotes
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Monday, 3 June 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
Mike Duncan of The History Of Rome podcast fame has a new one: Revolutions
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 20 September 2013 19:13 (ten years ago) link
Finally! Although I'm starting to feel dubious of the "guy effortlessly summarizes history books he has read" format. He's really good at it, so I'll give it a chance.
― special beet service (La Lechera), Friday, 20 September 2013 22:02 (ten years ago) link
hey, beats actually reading history books
― flopson, Friday, 20 September 2013 22:44 (ten years ago) link
i like reading history books. if he weren't so good at keeping himself out of it, i would have bailed on the history of rome almost immediately, but he's really good at that. no filler, no fluff, minimal editorializing. i guess as far as summarizers go, he's at the top of the heap!
― special beet service (La Lechera), Friday, 20 September 2013 22:46 (ten years ago) link
otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 September 2013 00:20 (ten years ago) link
I've been liking "The British History Podcast." It's crazy detailed though. He's been going for 4 years, 174 episodes so far, and hasn't even reached 1066 yet. It's very much in the Mike Duncan style.
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 20:35 (eight years ago) link
Just finished the 12 part series on the Charles Manson murders on "You Must Remember This". Very highly recommended. The late 60s in L.A. seems like such a crazy time and place.
― silverfish, Friday, 25 September 2015 16:23 (eight years ago) link
Otm. Her "voice work" is super facepalm but I really enjoyed it overall, she researched the hell out of it.
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 September 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
Moshe Kasher's "Hound Tall" is fun, with an expert on a topic paired with some stand-ups
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Friday, 25 September 2015 16:30 (eight years ago) link
completely OTM, Dan Carlin is unlistenable.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 25 September 2015 16:39 (eight years ago) link
so much shouting
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 September 2015 16:41 (eight years ago) link
even when he's not shouting, he seems to think everything he says is going to BLOW your GODDAMNED mind.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 25 September 2015 16:47 (eight years ago) link
the explosion sound clip he plays at the end of the shows are funny as hell
some of his theatrics are ridic but I like the show overall..
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 25 September 2015 16:56 (eight years ago) link
I'm only about halfway done with it, but the latest hardcore history episode about nuclear war is pretty the scariest thing ever when you keep in mind that Donald Trump is currently the president of the United States.
― silverfish, Friday, 27 January 2017 15:53 (seven years ago) link
Oh it's one of those brisk 6 hour long episodes
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Friday, 27 January 2017 15:56 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, the length of these podcasts is a bit ridiculous, but whatever, I'm never bored when listening to them.
― silverfish, Friday, 27 January 2017 16:00 (seven years ago) link
i just listened to my first of his podcasts - the american peril - which was a scant 4 hours long. it was p enjoyable but this is so otm:
whenever he quotes someone (which is lot; it's a history podcast) he suddenly adopts this weird stentorian loudspeaker voice, like he's announcing the starting lineup for the new york yankees ABSOLUTELY REGARDLESS of whatever the quoted material is, or what tone it has, or what it's about, or when it was written. it is TERRIBLE. you already are a stickler for saying "quote" and "endquote", dan, so the tone of voice change is TOTALLY UNNECESSARY. GAH
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Friday, 27 January 2017 17:25 (seven years ago) link
I learned about Revolutions about a week ago, and jumped in with the French Revolution, since I knew nothing about it and it seemed appropriate for the times. He's fun to listen to! I think I'm learning something.
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Friday, 27 January 2017 17:29 (seven years ago) link
I had a hard time with the French revolution podcast. Such a complicated story with so many characters that it was hard to keep track of everything. If I had this in book form, it would be the kind of book where I constantly would be flipping back towards previous sections just to remember who this person was or what exactly happened then or whatever, but you can't really do that with audio. Then the next series is about the Haitian revolution which happens concurrently with the French one and what happened in France affects events in Haiti which means I have to go mentally keep track at what point things are in France as things are happening in Haiti (except that there is always a several week lag, since it takes a while for messages/people to travel between France to Haiti). Anyway about 6 or 7 episodes into the Haitian revolution I gave up. I would love to read a good book about this period though.
― silverfish, Friday, 27 January 2017 17:38 (seven years ago) link
Killer Mike is going to do a podcast on Reconstruction.
I've tried Dan Carlin so many times and I just can't do it. The bombast and the voice thing is such a turn off compared to History of Rome/Revolutions
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 27 January 2017 18:36 (seven years ago) link
xp. the black jacobins is a very good read on the haitian revolution
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Friday, 27 January 2017 19:09 (seven years ago) link
The History Matters show from the guy who did the Fall of Rome podcast is pretty good so far. It's done by two academic historians who'd normally be talking about this stuff over beers anyway, so they decided to record it.
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Friday, 27 January 2017 20:52 (seven years ago) link
If you can't use bbc radio iplayer there are lots of Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time episodes on youtube. It varies from pretty good to absolutely essential, depending on the quality of guest contributors, which are often very good tbh. JFC would rather drink the lager than listen to Dan Carlin though, he sounds Trump reading history from a junior school book.
"The French Revolution... was yknow.. when warfare got..at least in the minds of Europeans in this era.. y'know ..really serious"
― calzino, Friday, 27 January 2017 22:53 (seven years ago) link
yes, it is rather lunkheaded in many ways. in the american peril episode he posits this duality of the american psyche in which they are on the one hand "almost unrealistically good" - by this he means that the US has an idealized democratic republican self-image - and that this butts heads with their desire to be a great power and engage in imperialistic colonialization. he repeats the words "almost unrealistically good" many times. he also goes for some fairly radical and obtuse historical relativism when he points out that the slaughter of the moros in the philippines and the joy that the american soldiers take in it is more understandable when you remember that the US has just finished slaughtering the indigenous population of america like a decade before and nobody gave a fuck about that either
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Friday, 27 January 2017 23:42 (seven years ago) link
i should add - despite the fact that many people in america were disgusted by the accounts they heard of the slaughtering of the Moros and thus the fact that it was possible for turn of the 20th century americans not to be total white supremacist maniacs
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Friday, 27 January 2017 23:44 (seven years ago) link
sidebar - highly recommend Presidents are People Too by former daily show writer/Flophouse co-host Eliot Kalan
serious & delving but short and light in tonei like it a lot.
new Abe Lincoln ep features Kalan's 2 1/2 yo son reciting (via Dad) the Gettysburg Addresscutest damn thing you'll ever hear
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 January 2017 01:04 (seven years ago) link
I just stumbled across a Dan Warren apocalyptic cutup of Dan Carlin. Hardcore Prophecy: The Trump of Doom.
Not as good as his Obama cutup for obvious reasons, but perhaps of interest to Hardcore History fans.
― #DeleteFacebook (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link
Citations Needed is a great show. This ep gets into local TV/news reporting, how that often revolves into police stenography, and how gentrification brings about more cops:
http://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-54-local-crime-reporting-as-police-stenography
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
Revolutions is rocking my world. Dude is so good at streamlining a huge amount of complicated information and communicating it both clearly and with an overarching clarity of intent. Very rare and underrated skill ime.
― Extra Shprankles (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
I've really taken to the revolutions podcast, the episode about Bakunin is excellent.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 09:09 (four years ago) link
yeah same, I'm totally addicted.
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 09:10 (four years ago) link
I need to exercise more listening discipline, because I've been quite random in the order of listening to the eps.
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 09:13 (four years ago) link
I'm gonna second Wrath of the Khans for Hardcore History. It's definitely the best series he's done, though part of that might be me just not knowing a whole lot about that history beforehand.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 15:17 (four years ago) link
just started "Know Your Enemy" -- two chill very smart lefties (one a former conservative intellectual-in-training) discuss the history and provide a sort of field guide to movement conservatism. digging it so far.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Thursday, 19 December 2019 00:59 (four years ago) link
Listened to the first few Revolutions eps on the Russian Revolution. Good counterpart to the WWI series in a way, and nice to listen to something a little headier than Hardcore History. I didn't find any of it hard to understand except for the fact that he covers so much ground so quickly that I frequently had to hit the 15 secs back button. He'd make a good intro course lecturer but it can be hard to follow while doing something else like driving, which is when I'm usually listening.
Carlin also has a real talent for imagery and story that I don't think Duncan quite has to the same extent. But Duncan's style is much better for something like trying to explain the foundations of Marxist thought, which I don't think Carlin could even do, let alone succinctly.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 19 December 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
And I bet you've never had a closer shave since you started using Harry's razors, eh man alive?
― calzino, Thursday, 19 December 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, December 19, 2019 12:19 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i listened to a few episodes of hardcore history before calling it a day but in one of them he touches upon the frankfurt school and it was like the scene in the 40 year old virgin with steve carrell talking about boobs
― xmas respecter (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 19 December 2019 20:56 (four years ago) link
lool, didn't catch that one but sounds very otm of his style!
― calzino, Thursday, 19 December 2019 20:57 (four years ago) link
Started this last week and just got to the Bakunin one
I'm a little wary of this type of material as its rarely done well but I may give this one a shot too
― anvil, Sunday, 25 October 2020 10:00 (three years ago) link
That one started out well but has gotten a bit scattered now that they mostly focus on whatever guest they have on—Ross Douthat for instance.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 25 October 2020 13:42 (three years ago) link
^agreed. but I still really enjoy it.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Sunday, 25 October 2020 13:46 (three years ago) link
it’s the only ep i’ve listened to but Marshall Steinbaum ep of know yr enemy goes extremely deep into intellectual history of chicago econ
― flopson, Sunday, 25 October 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
ketchup re-posting from the brainworms thread:
i'm up to the massacre of champ de mars in the mike duncan revolutions pod (since it's mentioned just upthread for some reason)i think it's p good but i have to make some kind of comment and/or protest re duncan's french pronunciation, which is in my opinion PECULIAR lol― mark s, Monday, 27 September 2021 19:08 (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglinkthe radical parisian district of cor-dell-YEE!― mark s, Monday, 27 September 2021 19:15 (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i think it's p good but i have to make some kind of comment and/or protest re duncan's french pronunciation, which is in my opinion PECULIAR lol
― mark s, Monday, 27 September 2021 19:08 (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
the radical parisian district of cor-dell-YEE!
― mark s, Monday, 27 September 2021 19:15 (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― mark s, Monday, 27 September 2021 18:26 (two years ago) link
in parallel i'm reading a place of greater safety: a book which loves robespierre much more than duncan seems to
― mark s, Monday, 27 September 2021 20:19 (two years ago) link
he's best when he just sticks to a detailed narrative history which is what he's good at and doesn't bring in any "as an American" type content, he did that in one of English revolution eps + it was cringe.
― calzino, Monday, 27 September 2021 20:24 (two years ago) link
actually it was an American Revolution ep he did that in
― calzino, Monday, 27 September 2021 20:28 (two years ago) link
do people like Blowback? The Iraq material was a little too familiar for me but I'm really enjoying the 2nd season about the Cuban revolution
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 06:20 (two years ago) link
I thought Blowback was great. The episodes on the missile crisis were riveting.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 06:42 (two years ago) link
Looking for politics more than history (although I welcome recommendations for both). I love Know Your Enemy and am almost all caught up on it, what else should I listen to for thoughtful/well-read lefty political takes? Can be historical, for that matter, but especially interested in people doing good things in talking about contemporary Western politics. Not opposed to current events type shows, but something more substantive than drive-by punditry.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 23 March 2023 01:27 (one year ago) link
“Will Be Wild” about the Jan 6th insurrection was really good?
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 March 2023 01:48 (one year ago) link
OK! My first reaction is "do I need to hear more about Jan. 6," but then I just finished listening to two hours on Whittaker Chambers so I shouldn't rule anything out.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 23 March 2023 01:58 (one year ago) link
i had zero interest going in before it was recommended to me & was impressed by how engaging it was
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 March 2023 02:04 (one year ago) link