Season 12 premiered October 20, 2024 – a nonfictional account of The Martian Revolution of 2247. Mike Duncan is taking everything he's learned from 12 seasons of historical revolutions - the repeating arcs, characters, ideas, events, and patterns which all revolutions seem to follow - and created a fictional history of the Martian Revolution of 2247. The series is written from the point of view of a historian working hundreds of years after the Martian Revolution and will be presented in the style and format of previous seasons of Revolutions. It will look, sound, and feel like a Mike Duncan history podcast…but will instead be a fictional narrative of a gripping science-fiction epic. Revolutions is a podcast that covers the great political revolutions that have defined the modern world. Each season is a long-form narrative covering a different defining revolutionary epoch across three hundred years of history. It explores in great detail the people, ideas, and events that challenged and toppled outdated regimes and replaced them with new governments. After more than 350 episodes over ten seasons of narrative nonfiction, the 12th season is a fictional account of the Martian Revolution of 2247. *BREAKING NEWS* In the fall of 2025, the Revolutions podcast will return to its roots by diving into the great revolutions of the 20th century. The new run of episodes begins with the story of Irish Independence, a dramatic upheaval in the wake of WWI that saw Ireland free itself from centuries of English rule. Full of inspiring personalities, tragic events, and thrilling triumphs, Irish Independence is one of the most gripping events in revolutionary history. Future seasons will plunge ahead through the turbulent 20th century, and include the Spanish Civil War, the Cuban Revolution, and the Algerian War of Independence.
398 episodes transcribedAs the newly independent United States trasitioned from war to peace, it was tripped up by the ineffective Articles of Confederation.
Lord Cornwallis was trapped in Yorktown in October 1781. His surrender ended the American War of Independence.
Despite the thrashing he gave Horatio Gates at the Battle of Camden, Lord Cornwallis found the Carolinas slipping out of his grasp.
After Saratoga the French joined the war, the British changed strategies and Washington's army spent a miserable winter at Valley Forge.
Gentleman Johnny's Party Train ran into some trouble in 1777.
With the revolution on the line, George Washginton led his army to victory at Trenton. Unfortunately he would be unable to stop the British from takin...
When in the course of human events...
The American colonies declared independence in July 1776. Then their armies got chased around New York.
After the skirmishes at Lexington and Concord, war between Britain and the colonies broke out. George Washington was appointed commander-in-chief and...
The Boston Tea Party led Parliament to pass the Intolerable Acts in 1774. The colonists were really super not amused.
After the failure of the Stamp Act, Parliament passed a new series of taxes known as the Townshend Acts. The colonists were not amused.
After the French and Indian War, the British Ministry started levying new taxes on the colonies. The colonists were not amused.
A brief tour of the Thirteen Colonies.
The English Monarchy was restored in 1660.
After serving in Parliament and the courts of both Charles I and Charles II, Edward Hyde wrote a massively influential history of the English Civil...
Oliver Cromwell died on September 3, 1658. His son and heir Richard was iunable to hold the Protectorate together.
After the Puritans came to power they tried to abolish Christmas. Seriously.
The dissolution of the First Protectorate Parliament led to the brief and unpopular Rule of the Major Generals. When the Second Protectorate Parliamen...
The Instrument of Government was the first written constituion in English history.
