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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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S10E9 Podcast: Pulitzer Prize Winner Alan Taylor

2026/10/23

Stan’s guest this week is distinguished historian Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History, and the 2026 Vincent J. Dooley Distinguished Teaching Fellow at the Georgia Historical Society. Alan joins Stan to talk about his latest book, Tower Hill: A Plantation on the Edge of Rebellion (WW Norton, 2026), which draws on ...Continue Reading »

S10E8 Podcast: The American: Daniel J. Boorstin and His 20th Century

2026/10/08

What does it mean to be an American? Historian Daniel J. Boorstin, Librarian of Congress and one of the most important public intellectuals of the 20th century, spent a lifetime pondering that question. Stan’s guest this week is Boorstin’s son Jon Boorstin, a novelist and Oscar-nominated filmmaker, who discusses his new book, The American: The ...Continue Reading »

S10E7 Podcast: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith

2026/09/24

Stan’s guest this week is author and historian Keri Leigh Merritt, discussing her new book, An Inconvenient Woman: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America (St. Martin’s Press, 2026). Smith, born in 1897, was a white Southern woman living in the Jim Crow South who defied all stereotypes: she ...Continue Reading »

S10E6 Podcast: A New History of Lewis & Clark

2026/09/10

Stan’s guest this week is historian Craig Fehrman, author of This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark (Avid Reader Press, 2026), an exciting new history of the Corps of Discovery. Thirty years after Stephen Ambrose’s Undaunted Courage, Fehrman offers a fresh and more accurate account of one of the most important episodes ...Continue Reading »

S10E5 Podcast: Out of the Ballpark: How to Think About Baseball

2026/08/27

Stan welcomes back to the podcast historian David Henkin of the University of California, Berkeley, to talk about his latest book, Out of the Ballpark: How to Think About Baseball (Oxford University Press, 2026). Henkin strips away the mythology that has accumulated around baseball in the United States and rejects the notion that understanding the ...Continue Reading »

S10E4 Podcast: Contested Continent: The Oxford History of the United States

2026/08/13

Stan’s guest this week is distinguished historian Peter Mancall of the University of Southern California, author of Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America, c.1000 – 1680, the new and first volume in the renowned Oxford History of the United States series. Contested Continent recounts the origins of “America” and how it came to birth ...Continue Reading »

S10E3 Podcast: Whitfield Remembrance Project

2026/07/31

Stan’s guests this week are three members of the Whitfield Remembrance Project, a community remembrance initiative in Dalton, Georgia, inspired by the Equal Justice Initiative. Their mission is to honor victims of racial injustice in Whitfield County, beginning with efforts to memorialize the last known lynching in Whitfield. Their current project focuses on honoring Juliette ...Continue Reading »

S10E2 Podcast: American Patriarch: George Washington

2026/07/16

As part of GHS’s ongoing commemoration of the US250, Stan’s guest this week is acclaimed historian H.W. Brands, talking about his new book, American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington (Doubleday, 2026). The biographer of American luminaries Ben Franklin, Andrew Jackson, U.S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, FDR, and Reagan, turns his attention to Washington, from his ...Continue Reading »

S10E1 Podcast: National Treasure: The Declaration of Independence

2026/07/02

As part of GHS’s ongoing US250 commemoration—and just in time for July 4—Stan’s guest is author and historian Michael Auslin, talking about his new book, National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, 2026), the inspiring story of the Declaration from the Philadelphia boardinghouse where Jefferson drafted it to ...Continue Reading »

S9E22 Podcast: The Imperial Presidency

2026/06/18

As part of GHS’s ongoing US250 commemoration, Stan and GHS President & CEO Todd Groce discuss Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.’s historical classic, The Imperial Presidency, first published in 1973. Writing In the shadow of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, Schlesinger ominously argued that the presidency had become uncontrollable, king-like, and unaccountable to Congress or ...Continue Reading »

S9E21 Podcast: George Washington, Slavery, and American Memory

2026/06/04

Stan’s guest this week is historian John Garrison Marks, discussing his new book, Thy Will Be Done: George Washington’s Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory (University of North Carolina Press, 2026), which tells the story of Americans’ long struggle to come to terms with Washington’s legacy of slavery. He traces how politicians, ...Continue Reading »

S9E20 Podcast: The 10th Inning with Mark Bradley: Remembering Ted Turner and Bobby Cox

2026/05/21

Former AJC sports writer Mark Bradley returns as Stan’s guest this week to share his memories about two Atlanta legends who died earlier this month. Bradley covered the Braves during all of Cox’s remarkable and record-breaking second tenure as manager from 1990 to 2010, including 14 consecutive division titles, 5 National League championships, and the ...Continue Reading »

Podcast S9E19: Glenn McNair and Georgia History: From Savannah PD to ATF to the GHQ

2026/05/07

Stan’s guest this week is historian Glenn McNair, talking about his life and career in law enforcement—as a Savannah police officer, Secret Service agent, with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms—his 25 years as teacher and historian at Kenyon College, and his 16-year tenure as editor of the Georgia Historical Quarterly, the scholarly journal ...Continue Reading »

S9E18 Podcast: In the Shadow of the Great House: The Plantation in America

2026/04/23

Stan’s guest this week is UGA professor Daniel Rood, talking about his new book, In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America (W.W. Norton, 2026), a new history of American slavery and American capitalism. The plantation traces its roots to the Portuguese conquest of an island in the Atlantic ...Continue Reading »

S9E17 Podcast: The Fear of a Standing Army: Were the Founders Wrong?

2026/04/09

How is it that a country founded in fear of a standing army would come to think of its military as a bulwark of democracy? Why has there never been a military coup in the United States? As part of GHS’s ongoing US250 commemoration, Stan’s guest this week is Kori Schake of the American Enterprise ...Continue Reading »