The Duncan & Coe History Show

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March 13, 2025Blank Check History: When Scholars Hit the Jackpot
In the Season 0 finale, Mike and Alexis consider a world in which historians put their money where their history is. Links to the great work of our guests!

Rory McGovern Race, Politics, and Reconstruction: The First Black Cadets at Old West Point

Marcia Chatelain Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

Emily Tamkin Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities

Chistine Caccipuoti Footnoting History
27 min
January 22, 2025 Black Pioneer, White Frontier
In the 1840s, Black pioneer George Bush (no relation!), his white wife, and their five children quit Missouri, a slave state, for the Pacific Northwest---only to find racial exclusion laws hot on his heels.
38 min
January 15, 2025 Framed by Blood: The Mary Lincoln Story
On the 10th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, his widow faces an unthinkable betrayal. Alexis dismantles the myth of the unhinged Mary "Never Todd" Lincoln and reveals thewidow's relentless battle for justice.
39 min
December 26, 2024 Squirrel's Troublesome Little Bones
In this bonus episode, Alexis imagines a historic New Year's Eve menu for Mike. patreon.com/duncanandcoe

Karen Abbott, The Ghosts of Eden Park:The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder that Shocked Jazz-Age America.

Candice Millard, Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

Malinda Russell, A Domestic Cook: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen

Jon Mooallen, This Is Chance!

21 min
December 19, 2024Marc Bloch
From Nazi-fighting historian to Pantheon inductee: Bloch's legacy is anything but a strange defeat.

Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/HistorianAlexisCoe

Patreon: patreon.com/duncanandcoe

Books by and about Bloch

Carl Fink, Marc Bloch: A Life in History

Marc Bloch, The Historian's Craft

Marc Bloch, The Strange Defeat

Marc Bloch, Feudal Society
37 min
December 12, 2024 FDR v. Lindbergh
Author Paul Sparrow helps Mike and Alexis navigate Charles Lindbergh's bumpy descent from American hero to Nazi Germany apologist--and thorn in FDR's side.
Buy some books! Paul Sparrow, Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR's War of Words with Charles Lindbergh--And the Battle to Save Democracy

Alexis Coe, You Never Forget Your First

Mike Duncan, Hero of Two Worlds
41 min
December 05, 2024 Boss Walrus
In this bonus episode, Mike convinces Alexis not to be sad about Chester A. Arthur
11 min
December 05, 2024 Gladiator II
Today's episode is brought to you at one (guess who) host's insistence.
41 min
November 27, 2024 Biden's Tar Pit Plunge
Mike asks Alexis about Biden's legacy as she steels herself for the presidential ranking survey.
21 min
November 21, 2024 Rabbit Holes
Mike is back from his brush with not-quite-death and Alexis offers him no quarter, immediately speculating on 18th-century treatments he mercifully avoided. The actual episode: Their rabbit hole tales of unwoe, from the lexical versatility of "slut" to a totally logical journey from Michael Caine to Mary Todd Lincoln.
39 min

About The Duncan & Coe History Show

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Bestselling authors and historians Mike Duncan and Alexis Coe are far-flung buddies who slice through centuries with the sharpness of a guillotine. In this wide-ranging series, Duncan, best-known for…