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Off the Deaton Path

Off the Deaton Path is a podcast for anyone interested in lively conversation about American history and culture. Host Stan Deaton of the Georgia Historical Society explores the rich field of history through interviews with award-winning authors of some of the best contemporary works in history, biography, and non-fiction, as well as wide-ranging conversations about sports and popular culture, from movies to television, bourbon to beer, and Bigfoot to baseball.

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S8E9 Podcast: The Fascinating But Forgotten Founder

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2024/12/05

Stan’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 ...Continue Reading »

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S8E8 Podcast: John Lewis: A Life

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2024/11/21

Stan’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 ...Continue Reading »

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S8E7 Podcast: A Southern Underground Railroad

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2024/11/07

Stan’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 ...Continue Reading »

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S8E6 Podcast: “That’s Not Who We Are”—Or is it? An...

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2024/10/24

Stan 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.

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S8E5 Podcast: The Bookshop: A History of the American...

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2024/10/10

Stan’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, ...Continue Reading »

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S8E4 Podcast: New York Times Reporter Adam Nagourney

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2024/09/26

Stan 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 ...Continue Reading »

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Podcast S8E3: How the British Empire Ended in...

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2024/09/13

Stan’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.

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S8E2: Pulitzer Prize Winner Jacqueline Jones

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2024/08/29

Stan 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.

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S8E1 Podcast: Back to School! Plus, A Secret Tunnel...

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2024/08/20

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 ...Continue Reading »

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Podcast S7E15: Liberty Street: A Savannah Family, Its...

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2024/05/23

Stan 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 ...Continue Reading »

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Podcast S7E14: Michael Thurmond on James Oglethorpe

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2024/05/02

Stan’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 ...Continue Reading »

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Podcast S7E13: Georgia’s Big Cat: The Life of...

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2024/04/19

Stan’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.

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Podcast S7E12: It Doesn’t Feel Like Thursday: The...

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2024/04/12

Why 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 ...Continue Reading »

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Podcast S7E11: David Blight on Yale and Slavery,...

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2024/04/05

How 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 ...Continue Reading »

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Podcast S7E10: Bigfoot and Baseball

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2024/03/28

This 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.

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Podcast S7E9: Loserville: How Professional Sports...

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2024/03/06

Stan’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 ...Continue Reading »

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Podcast S7E8: Elizabeth Varon on General James...

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2024/02/22

This 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, ...Continue Reading »

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S7E7 Podcast: What Do You See? An Interview with...

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2023/12/14

Stan’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.

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Podcast S7E6: Pass the Crying Towel: The 2023 College...

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2023/12/07

Stan 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.

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S7E5 Podcast: John Shelton Reed on Barbecue, the...

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2023/11/30

Stan’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.

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