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Off the Deaton PathS8E20 Podcast: Remember Us: American Sacrifice, Dutch Freedom, and a Forever Promise Forged in World War IIMay 8, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of V-E Day, the Allied victory in Europe over Nazi Germany. Stan’s guest this week is acclaimed author Robert Edsel, talking about his new book, Remember Us, the extraordinary story of the liberation of the Dutch people and the creation of the American Netherlands Cemetery. It is a riveting account of freedom, sacrifice, and eternal gratitude. Edsel is the author of The Monuments Men, and is recognized as one of the world’s foremost advocates for art preservation and the recovery of cultural treasures missing since World War II. https://www.deatonpath.geor...2025-05-0800 min

Off the Deaton PathS8E19 Podcast: Last Seen: The Enduring Search By Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost FamiliesStan’s guest this week is historian Judith Giesberg, discussing her riveting new book, Last Seen: The Enduring Search By Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families, published in February by Simon and Schuster. Slavery broke many families apart, and Giesberg’s book details the fascinating and often heartbreaking search for lost children, parents, and other family members in the half century after the Civil War. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/4-24-25.mp3 2025-04-2400 min

Off the Deaton PathS8E18 Podcast: On Air: The Triumph and Tumult of NPR, National Public RadioStan’s guest is award-winning author and GHS Dooley Distinguished Fellow Steve Oney, discussing his new book On Air (published by Avid Reader Press) on the history of National Public Radio. From “All Things Considered” to “Car Talk” and “This American Life,” from Bob Edwards to Anne Garrels to Cokie Roberts and Ira Glass, Steve covers more than 50 fascinating years of the controversial public radio network that Americans love—and love to hate. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/4-10-25.mp3 2025-04-1000 min

Off the Deaton PathS8E17 Podcast: Shots Heard Round the World: The American Revolution and John FerlingStan’s guest this week is renowned historian John Ferling, who talks about his new (and perhaps final) book on the American Revolution, published just in time for the event’s 250th anniversary. Ferling reflects on his life and his remarkable 50-year career as one of America’s leading historians of the Founding era. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/3-27-25.mp3 2025-03-2700 min

Off the Deaton PathS8E16 Podcast: The Most Powerful Court in the World: A History of the Supreme CourtWill abortion be legal? Should people of the same sex be allowed to marry? Stan’s guest is UCLA law professor Stuart Banner, discussing his latest and very timely book, The Most Powerful Court in the World: A History of the Supreme Court of the United States, published in November by Oxford University Press. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/3-13-25.mp3 2025-03-1300 min

Off the Deaton PathS8E15 Podcast: “Savage, Barbarian, Civilized”: The Invention of Prehistory and Our Obsession With Human OriginsDo we study the deep past only to justify our present actions toward those we deem less “civilized”? Are humans fundamentally good and altruistic or mean and self-serving? Is “human nature” warlike or peaceful? Stan’s guest this week is author and historian Stefanos Geroulanos of New York University, discussing all of these issues from his new book, The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins, published in 2024 by Liveright. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2-27-25.mp3 2025-02-2700 min

Off the Deaton PathS8E14 Podcast: The Driving Machine: Why Our Cars Look The Way They DoStan’s guest this week is renowned architect Witold Rybczynski, who discusses his new book, The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car, published by W.W. Norton. In this wide-ranging discussion, the author reflects on why cars are reflections of our national character, from the Model T to the Range Rover, and how automotive legends like Carl Benz, Ferdinand Porsche, and Harley Earl, created the cars we love and hate, from the VW Beetle to the Mustang and the Corvette, from the SUV to the Tesla Cybertruck. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2-13-25.mp...2025-02-1300 min

Off the Deaton PathS8E13 Podcast: Is Technology Changing What it Means to Be Human?Do people prefer texting to face-to-face encounters? Will handwriting become obsolete? Have we lost the mental capacity for patience and boredom? And if we have, does it matter? Stan’s guest this week is author and historian Christine Rosen of the American Enterprise Institute, who tackles the impact of technology on what it means to be human in her new book, The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World (published in 2024 by WW Norton). https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/1-30-25.mp3 2025-01-3000 min

Off the Deaton PathS8E12 Podcast: Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman’s March RevisitedStan’s guest this week is historian Bennett Parten, talking about his new book, Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation, published by Simon & Schuster on January 21, 2025. Sherman’s March has remained controversial to this day, and this book is a major new interpretation of the March and its legacy in American history. Parten focuses on how the March played a significant role in ending the Civil War, due in no small part to the efforts of the tens of thousands of enslaved people who became a part of it as the US Army...2025-01-1700 min

Off the Deaton PathS8E11 Podcast: Woodrow Wilson: The Light WithdrawnThis week Stan talks to Christopher Cox, Senior Scholar in Residence at the University of California, Irvine, about his new book, Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn, published in 2024 by Simon & Schuster. Cox’s focus is on Wilson’s role in the movements for women’s suffrage and racial equality, and his open hostility to both. This is a riveting, beautifully written reassessment of the heroes who fought so hard for decades to pass the Susan B. Anthony Amendment more than a century ago—and Wilson’s legacy in our own day. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/1-2-25.mp3 2025-01-0300 min

Off the Deaton PathS8E10 Podcast: The 2024 Reading Year in ReviewThis week Stan reviews his reading in 2024: how many books and pages, fiction and non-fiction, and offers tips on age-old reading problems, including: how to get more reading into your life, should you write in your books, reading in a distracted age, suffering from book guilt and how to conquer it, and more. Plus you’ll get an earful about the upcoming College Football Playoffs (Go Dawgs) and what the heck is Baseball’s Golden At-Bat? https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/12-19-24.mp3 2024-12-1900 min

Off the Deaton PathS8E9 Podcast: The Fascinating But Forgotten FounderStan’s guest is historian Jane Calvert, author of Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson, published in October by Oxford University Press. Dickinson was at the forefront of the Revolutionary movement but refused to sign the Declaration of Independence and has been largely forgotten. Calvert argues in her new book that without John Dickinson there wouldn’t be a United States of America. How and why did this happen, and who was this fascinating but forgotten founder? https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/12-4-24.mp3 2024-12-0500 min

Off the Deaton PathS8E8 Podcast: John Lewis: A LifeStan’s guest this week is historian and journalist David Greenberg of Rutgers University, talking about his new tour-de-force biography of Civil Rights icon and longtime Georgia Congressman, John Lewis: A Life, published by Simon & Schuster. Greenberg interviewed Lewis and 275 others, including Presidents Clinton and Obama, about Lewis’s rise from Alabama poverty to Bloody Sunday to public servant, the man deemed the Moral Conscience of the Congress. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/11-21-24.mp3 2024-11-2100 min

Off the Deaton PathS8E7 Podcast: A Southern Underground RailroadStan’s guest this week is historian Paul Pressly, discussing his new book, A Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country, published by the University of Georgia Press. It’s a tale of how enslaved men and women found freedom and human dignity outside the expanding boundaries of the United States, crossing the borders and boundaries that separated the Lowcountry from the British and Spanish in coastal Florida and from the Seminole and Creek people in the vast interior of the Southeast. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/11-7-24.mp3 ...2024-11-0700 min

Off the Deaton PathS8E6 Podcast: “That’s Not Who We Are”—Or is it? An Interview with Pulitzer Prize Winner Steven HahnStan interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Steven Hahn about his latest book, Illiberal America: A History, which argues that what happened on January 6, 2021, was not an aberration but has deep roots in the American past. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/10-24-24.mp3 2024-10-2400 min

Off the Deaton PathS8E5 Podcast: The Bookshop: A History of the American BookstoreStan’s guest this week is historian Evan Friss, author of the bestselling new release, The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore, which has been getting rave reviews in national publications. The story begins with Benjamin Franklin’s first bookstore in Philadelphia and takes us to a range of booksellers including the Strand in New York, Chicago’s Marshall Field & Company, the Gotham Book Mart, specialty stores like Oscar Wilde and Drum and Spear, sidewalk sellers of used books, Barnes & Noble, Amazon Books, and Parnassus. “A thoroughly engaging, delightful excursion into the wondrous world of books.” https://www.deaton...2024-10-1000 min

Off the Deaton PathS8E4 Podcast: New York Times Reporter Adam NagourneyStan interviews veteran New York Times reporter Adam Nagourney about his recent book, The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism, a sweeping behind-the-scenes look at the last four turbulent decades of “the paper of record,” as it confronted world-changing events, internal scandals, and the existential threat of the internet. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/9-25-24.mp3 2024-09-2600 min

Off the Deaton PathPodcast S8E3: How the British Empire Ended in Georgia: Governor James WrightStan’s guest this week is historian Greg Brooking, discussing his new book From Empire to Revolution: Sir James Wright and the Price of Loyalty in Georgia, published on July 15 by the University of Georgia Press. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/9-13-24.mp3 2024-09-1300 min

Off the Deaton PathS8E2: Pulitzer Prize Winner Jacqueline JonesStan talks to historian Jacqueline Jones about her book, No Right to An Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era, winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in History. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/8-29-24.mp3 2024-08-2900 min

Off the Deaton PathS8E1 Podcast: Back to School! Plus, A Secret Tunnel Behind Lincoln’s Head on Mt. Rushmore?Join Stan as he launches a new season of Off the Deaton Path with a recap of one of the most momentous weeks in American political history, plus a deep dive into Fun Facts Known By Few (a tunnel behind Lincoln’s head on Mt. Rushmore? Are you living in a nuclear sponge? What is the mysterious Greek fire? Why was the flow of the Chicago River reversed in 1900?) Also, a sneak peek at upcoming podcast author interviews, and the 45th anniversary of the death of the King. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/8-16-24.mp3 ...2024-08-2000 min

Off the Deaton PathPodcast S7E15: Liberty Street: A Savannah Family, Its Golden Boy, and the Civil WarStan interviews author Jason Friedman about his new book, Liberty Street. Jason and his husband bought a townhouse on Liberty Street in his hometown of Savannah. But that was just the beginning of a remarkable journey: “It’s a house that came with a story: the rise and fall of a Southern Jewish family and a ghost story whose long-dead characters still haunt the present. Liberty Street chronicles my journey to understand the Solomon Cohen family and the way their lives intersected with their enslaved workers, Savannah’s Jewish community, and their Christian neighbors. I became interested in the way we...2024-05-2300 min

Off the Deaton PathPodcast S7E14: Michael Thurmond on James OglethorpeStan’s guest this week is DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond, who talks about his new book, James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia: A Founder’s Journey From Slave Trader to Abolitionist, published by the University of Georgia Press. Michael argues that Oglethorpe has never gotten credit for his pathbreaking efforts to keep slavery out of the Georgia colony and his subsequent impact on the emerging abolitionist movement in England. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/5-1-24.mp3 2024-05-0200 min

Off the Deaton PathPodcast S7E13: Georgia’s Big Cat: The Life of Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny MizeStan’s guest this week is Jerry Grillo, author of Big Cat: The Life of Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Mize. Mize was born in Demorest, Georgia, and played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball and won 5 World Series. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/4-18-24.mp3 2024-04-1900 min

Off the Deaton PathPodcast S7E12: It Doesn’t Feel Like Thursday: The Week, A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We AreWhy do the days of the week have their own particular feeling, and how did that happen? This week Stan’s guest is historian and author David Henkin from the University of California, Berkeley, discussing his book, The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms that Made Us Who We Are. We take the seven-day week for granted, rarely asking what anchors it or what it does to us, yet weeks are not dictated by the natural order. They are, in fact, an artificial construction of the modern world. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/4-12-24.mp...2024-04-1200 min

Off the Deaton PathPodcast S7E11: David Blight on Yale and Slavery, History and MemoryHow do we hold institutions accountable for the sins of the past? In this podcast, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Blight of Yale University talks with Stan about his latest book, Yale and Slavery: A History, and how he and a team of researchers uncovered Yale’s historical involvement with slavery, the slave trade, abolition, and Jim Crow—and the important role that slavery played in the creation of one of America’s most renowned institutions of higher learning. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/4-5-24.mp3 2024-04-0500 min

Off the Deaton PathPodcast S7E10: Bigfoot and BaseballThis week Stan discusses a new book on an old legend—Bigfoot—and the hope that springs eternal with the return of the Beloved Braves and Major League Baseball. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/3-28-24.mp3 2024-03-2800 min

Off the Deaton PathPodcast S7E9: Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta—and How Atlanta Remade Professional SportsStan’s guest this week is Clayton Trutor, talking about his recent book Loserville, the winner of the Georgia Historical Society’s 2023 Bell Award for the best book in Georgia history published in 2022. Clayton discusses how Atlanta’s quest for professional sports franchises—the Braves, Falcons, Hawks, and Flames—re-shaped Atlanta and Georgia in the second half of the 20th century. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/3-6-24.mp3 2024-03-0600 min

Off the Deaton PathPodcast S7E8: Elizabeth Varon on General James Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the SouthThis week Stan’s guest is historian and author Elizabeth Varon from the University of Virginia discussing her latest book, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied The South. She talks about the life and career of this most controversial Georgian, from whether “Longstreet was late” at Gettysburg, and how his post-war decision to support Radical Reconstruction, Black office-holding and voting, and his post-war criticisms of Robert E. Lee all combined to nearly destroy his reputation and his life. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2-22-24.mp3 2024-02-2200 min

WTOC NewsWhat to expect from this year's Georgia History FestivalStan Deaton and Christy Crisp stopped by the WTOC News podcast to talk about everything happening for the 2024 Georgia History Festival. For more information on the festivities, click here. To learn more about the Georgia Historical Society, click here. 2024-02-0811 min

Off the Deaton PathS7E7 Podcast: What Do You See? An Interview with Author Jeryn Alise TurnerStan’s guest this week is best-selling author Jeryn Turner, who discusses her writing life, her upbringing, books, and the inspiration behind her fulfilling life. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/12-14-23.mp3 2023-12-1400 min

Off the Deaton PathPodcast S7E6: Pass the Crying Towel: The 2023 College Football SeasonStan brings out his over-used crying towel and reviews the inglorious end to the Dogs’ season, reviews the College Football Playoff mess, and looks ahead to next season. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/12-7-23.mp3 2023-12-0700 min

Off the Deaton PathS7E5 Podcast: John Shelton Reed on Barbecue, the South, and GeezerhoodStan’s guest this week is renowned (and recovering) sociologist John Shelton Reed, who discusses his career, what’s still southern about the South, the Campaign for Real Barbecue, and writing country music lyrics. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/11-29-23.mp3 2023-11-3000 min

Off the Deaton PathS7E4 Podcast: What the #@%& Happened to the Braves?In this episode Stan brings out the crying towel and reviews the quick end to a glorious Braves season, offers his take on how to “fix” the playoffs, and looks ahead to next season. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/10-20-23.mp3 2023-10-2000 min

Off the Deaton PathS7E3 Podcast: History, Memory, and Monuments: A Conversation with Kevin LevinThis week Stan’s guest is Kevin Levin, author of the Civil War Memory Substack blog and one of the country’s foremost experts on the history and memory of the Civil War era, including the ongoing controversy surrounding Confederate monuments and debates concerning the teaching of slavery and race in the classroom. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/10-5-23.mp3 2023-10-0500 min

Off the Deaton PathS7E2 Podcast: C. Vann Woodward: America’s HistorianStan’s guest this week is Dr. Jim Cobb of the University of Georgia, talking about his new biography of historian C. Vann Woodward, one of the most distinguished and important historians of the 20th century. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/9-28-23.mp3 2023-09-2800 min

Off the Deaton PathPodcast S7E1: What Happened to the Vital Center in Politics?Stan’s guest this week is political scientist Sidney Milkis of the University of Virginia, who discusses his new book, What Happened to the Vital Center? Presidentialism, Populist Revolt, and the Fracturing of America. This is a wide-ranging discussion about American political history and the US Constitution. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/9-21-23.mp3 2023-09-2100 min

Off the Deaton PathPodcast S6E5: A Vow of Silence and the Mongolian RhapsodyIn this podcast Stan discusses the newly available Ed Jackson Collection at GHS, Freddie Mercury’s handwritten lyrics to “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Ed Ames’ tomahawk throw, and college students giving up their cellphones to take a vow of silence. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/6-28-23.mp3 2023-06-2900 min

Off the Deaton PathS6E4: If Your Phone’s Not Ringing, It’s MeDo unexpected calls on your smart phone send you into panic mode? Should people text before calling? Do you hate text messages too? Is AI the end of the world as we know it? Stan discusses these pressing issues and more, including this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners, the travails of our beloved Braves, and the goings-on in the Fraternal Order of Tall People in Shorts. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/S6E4.mp3 2023-05-2500 min

The Honkytonk Jukebox ShowThe Honkytonk Jukebox Show #106The Louvin Brothers - I Can't Keep You In Love With Me ( Capitol )Bill Sterling - I Remember How You Loved To Love Me Every Time It Rained ( JED )Kathy Dee - Teardrops In My Heart ( B-W Music )Marty Robbins Jr - Big Mouthin Around ( Columbia )Jack Greene - What's The Use ( Decca Adrian Roland - Better Judgement ( Starday )Hank Williams Jr - Pecos Jail ( MGM )Jamey Ryan - You're Looking For A Plaything ( Columbia )Stan Harlow - 1040 Blues ( Checker )2023-05-1857 min

Ekonomia i cała reszta#34 To pieniądze jednak dają szczęście?Możesz nas wesprzeć na portal Patronite: https://patronite.pl/Ekonomiaica%C5%8... Prawo malejącej użyteczności mówi, że każda następna porcja towaru czy usługi, po jaką sięgamy, przynosi nam mniej korzyści. Gdy mamy ochotę na pizzę, to konsumpcja pierwszej da nam wiele satysfakcji, nasyci nas i wprawi w dobry humor. Druga, jedzona zaraz po pierwszej zapewne zostanie przyjęta z mniejszym entuzjazmem, a trzeciej możemy (i powinniśmy) odmówić. Skoro tak jest praktycznie ze wszystkim, co konsumujemy – to intuicja podpowiada, że podobnie powinno być z pieniędzmi, których siła nabywc...2023-03-1517 min

Off the Deaton PathPodcast S6E3: The Fate of the Top Nazis after World War IIIn this episode, Stan looks at what happened to Hitler and his top henchmen—Goebbels, Himmler, Goring, Bormann, and others. How do we know so much about the Nazis despite the lack of physical remains, monuments and statues? https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2-17-23.mp3 2023-02-1700 min

Indiana Sports Talk Podcast11:00-12:00- (Stan Gouard, Steve Kolb, David Deaton, Scott McClellan, Nathaniel Finch, Bob Burke, Brendan King)The 11 o’clock hour starts with USI HC Stan Gouard talking about the Screaming Eagles win over Southern Illinois University- Edwardsville and his journey building this now-DI program. Coach talks about his 4-way tie for 1st place in the Ohio Valley Conference. Back to high school hoops as WAXL’s Steve Kolb calls to talk about Castle’s 73-65 win over Heritage Hills. After Kolb, David Deaton joins Coach Lovell to talk about Corydon Central’s 81-76 win over Charleston. Next up is Noblesville Head Coach Scott McClellan who calls in about the Miller’s 75-47 win over Hamilton Heights. D...2023-01-2243 min

Off the Deaton PathPodcast S6E2: Johann Neem: History and DemocracyIn this episode Stan interviews Dr. Johann Neem, historian and author, whose research focuses on the history of American democracy. They discuss history in the public realm, why history has become so controversial in recent years, and where it’s all headed. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/11-18-22.mp3 2022-11-1800 min

Off the Deaton PathPodcast S6E1: Star Trek, Horrifying Cliches, & Goodbye Georgy GirlThis week Stan looks back at one of the most popular TV shows ever, a Mad magazine cartoonist who left his mark on the holidays, a critical day in the American Civil War, a milestone birthday of a legendary football coach, one of the most momentous days in Olympic history, Travis McGee novels, and much more. 2022-09-0200 min

Off the Deaton PathPodcast S5E2: Dayton Duncan Dayton Duncan has worked with Ken Burns for more than 30 years writing and producing some of the most important and critically acclaimed documentaries in history. In this podcast he talks about his career with Burns and Florentine Films, living part-time in Georgia, and what comes next. 2022-04-1500 min

Off the Deaton PathS5E1: Happy Halloween Once again this year, in celebration of the spooky season Stan reads a favorite ghost story, “Rats” by the master of the genre, M.R. James, first published in 1929. Also, this week in history and a dark day in Mayberry. Draw near the fire, dim the lights, and enjoy….. 2021-10-2800 min

Off the Deaton PathPodcast S4 E10: We Salute You, and Farewell This week Stan remembers the birth and death of two iconic musicians from the 20th century, and the recent deaths of five historians whose work over the past 60 years helped redefine several eras of American history. 2021-09-1700 min

Off the Deaton PathPodcast S4E9: Elvis, Napoleon, and the Bakersfield Sound This week Stan revisits the death of the King, the birth of the phonograph, Buck Owens, the Aztec empire, Alfred Hitchcock, Napoleon, Margaret Mitchell, and one of the darkest episodes in Georgia history. He also remembers Rosalyn Carter’s birthday, a hero from Iwo Jima, and shares new additions to the Off the Deaton Path bookshelf. 2021-08-1300 min

Off the Deaton PathPodcast S4E8: 1776 For Independence Day, Stan talks about This Week in History (including Elvis, the CDC, the Beatles, Sherlock Holmes, Thomas Jefferson & John Adams), notes the birthday of a celebrated historian, remembers a segregationist southern governor from the Civil Rights Movement, highlights new additions to the Off the Deaton Path bookshelf, and revisits one of his favorite movies about the American Revolution and the Founding Fathers. 2021-07-0100 min

Political RewindPolitical Rewind: Lessons From Nations That Confront Atrocities Through Reflection And EducationWednesday on Political Rewind: How American history is discussed in schools is receiving new attention in Georgia and across the country. State Republicans have joined a chorus of conservatives voices demanding an end to the inclusion of so-called "critical race theory" in school curriculum, though few of its critics can provide a clear definition of what it is. At issue is how we discuss the atrocities committed through the history of our country. Conservatives say teaching about the lingering tendrils of systemic racism in U.S. society creates a distorted picture of American history. But racial violence, Jim Crow laws...2021-06-3050 min

Off the Deaton PathPodcast S4E7: Item! Stan Lee and the Golden Age of Comics Stan talks about This Week in History (including King George III, AIDS, RFK, Mount Everest, & Charles Dickens), remembers a record-breaking baseball player, highlights new additions to the Off the Deaton Path bookshelf, and spotlights an incredible and historic collection of golden-age comic books about to hit the auction block–and the influence of comics in his own life. 2021-06-0400 min

Off the Deaton PathPodcast S4E6: The Stamp Act, Houdini, & Spike Lee Stan talks about This Week in History (the Stamp Act, James Jackson, Spike Lee, the first Black graduate of West Point, the Masters, Tomochichi, & Houdini), says goodbye to a pathbreaking historian and actor, spotlights new additions to the Off the Deaton Path bookshelf, and welcomes the opening of Major League Baseball. 2021-03-1800 min

Off the Deaton PathPodcast S4E5: To the Best of My Ability: Presidential Inaugurations, from Washington to Biden Stan looks at the history of this quadrennial event that goes back 232 years, from the Bible Washington used to the only inauguration held on an airplane, the only president sworn in by a woman, two inaugurals almost cancelled by cold weather, and why there have been 9 “non-scheduled extraordinary” inaugurations. President John F. Kennedy takes the Oath of Office, January 20, 1961. 2021-01-1400 min

Off the Deaton PathPodcast S4E4: Georgia Politics, Past and Future: An Interview with Keith Mason This week’s guest is Keith Mason, a Gwinnett County native who served as Governor Zell Miller’s Chief of Staff and in President Bill Clinton’s administration. He was instrumental in the passage of the Georgia Lottery and the Hope Scholarship. Keith discusses political figures past and future, including Zell Miller, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, James Carville, Paul Begala, Roy Barnes, Stacey Abrams, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and more. 2020-11-1200 min

Off the Deaton PathS4E3: Halloween Podcast: Vanished From the Face of the Earth For Halloween, Stan tells four of his favorite stories of people who simply vanished into thin air: The story of one of our Founding Fathers who vanished while mailing a letter; the most famous maritime missing persons mystery ever; the story of a man who literally was there one minute and gone the next; and finally perhaps the most notorious missing person case of the 20th century. Plus This Week in History: Duane Allman, King Tut, Jimmy Carter, Juliette Gordon Low, and more. 2020-10-3000 min

Social Science BitesWhose Work Most Influenced You? A Social Science Bites RetrospectiveWhich piece of social science research has most inspired or most influenced you? This question has been posed to every interview in the Social Science Bites podcast series, but never made part of the audio file made public. Now, as we approach the 50th Social Science Bite podcast to be published this March 1, journalist and interviewer David Edmonds has compiled those responses into three separate montages of those answers. In this first of that set of montages, 15 renowned social scientists – starting in alphabetical order from all who have participated – reveal their pick. As you might expe...2017-02-1513 min

The Hunt Fish JournalHFJ 61 Center Shot Program and NASP. Starting the Kids off right!This show the HFJ takes a look at beginner archery programs. Center Shot and NASP. Ted Ricci Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Germantown, Ohio and Robin Walton from WFCJ radio talk about the Center Shot program that Ted started at his church as an outreach program for youth as well as adults and families. Jared Deaton from Kentucky comes to this show as a participant in the NASP schools program, National Archery in the Schools Program. Jared tells us that the girls in this program out number the boys! Ted also talks about his new book At t...2014-06-191h 34

ASHP PodcastStan Deaton: Civil War Myths and MisinformationStan Deaton, Georgia Historical SocietyCivil War @ 150: Civil War Myths and MisinformationCUNY Graduate CenterApril 5, 2011In this 12 minute talk, Stan Deaton (Senior Historian at the Georgia Historical Society) discusses the challenges his institution faces when discussing and commemorating the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. With many people unconvinced that the Civil War was fought to preserve and extend slavery, Deaton explains that we must rely on evidence on the ground in the 1860s. All too often, the public refers to “politically correct” material that was distributed during later historical periods and alters the original meaning of the insurrection. The...2011-07-2013 min