Off the Deaton Path

Stan Deaton
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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.

  1. 11 DE FEV.

    S9E13 Podcast: The American Revolution as a Global Conflict

    As part of GHS’s ongoing US250 commemoration, Stan’s guest this week is historian and British native Richard Bell, talking about his new book, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World (Penguin/Riverhead, 2025), which offers a global perspective on the American independence movement. Bell puts the Revolution at the center of an international web, ...Continue Reading »

  2. 29 DE JAN.

    S9E12 Podcast: Declaring Independence: Why 1776 Matters

    As part of GHS’s ongoing commemoration of the US250, Stan’s guest this week is author and historian Edward J. Larson, discussing his new book, Declaring Independence: Why 1776 Matters (WW Norton, 2026). At the beginning of 1776, virtually no one in the American colonies advocated for independence: Americans based their grievances against Parliament on their ...Continue Reading »

  3. 16 DE JAN.

    S9E11 Podcast: The US 250

    Stan’s guest this week is GHS President and CEO Dr. Todd Groce, talking about the 250th anniversary of the United States, upcoming this year on July 4, 2026. What does this anniversary mean for our country and its people, especially given the divisive times in which we live? We’ll discuss the ongoing legacy of the ...Continue Reading »

  4. 2 DE JAN.

    S9E10 Podcast: The 2025 Reading Year in Review

    This week Stan kicks off the new year by reviewing his reading in 2025: how many books and pages, fiction and non-fiction, as well as the other ways he works reading into his life: audiobooks, podcasts, blogs, newspapers, and magazines. He also revisits and offers tips on age-old reading problems, including: setting reading goals (or ...Continue Reading »

  5. 04/12/2025

    S9E9 Podcast: What Dan Read, Part 2: A Conversation with Dan’s Daughter Marci Pelzer

    Stan’s guest this week is Marci Pelzer, Dan Pelzer’s daughter, who talks about her father, his reading habits, and what it was like growing up with the man whose now-famous reading list of 3,599 books has inspired a whole new generation of readers across the world.

  6. 20/11/2025

    S9E8 Podcast: Steve Thomas: From The Last Navigator to This Old House and Back Again

    Stan’s guest this week is author and former This Old House host Steve Thomas, discussing the revised and expanded version of his book, The Last Navigator: A Young Man, an Ancient Mariner, the Secrets of the Sea (Abbeville Press). Steve hosted PBS’s This Old House for fourteen years, from 1989 through 2003, during which the ...Continue Reading »

  7. 07/11/2025

    S9E7 Podcast: Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson

    Stan’s guest this week is author Leo Damrosch of Harvard University, discussing Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson (Yale University Press), his new biography of the author of Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Kidnapped. Stevenson’s short but adventurous life matched the magic of his writing. Damrosch discusses how Stevenson in his ...Continue Reading »

  8. 09/10/2025

    S9E6 Podcast: Tom Johnson: From LBJ to CNN

    Stan’s guest this week is Georgia native and journalist Tom Johnson, whose remarkable career took him from Macon, where he worked for legendary newspaperman Peyton Anderson, to UGA’s Grady College of Journalism, to White House Fellow during President Lyndon Johnson’s administration, to publisher of the Los Angeles Times, and finally as president of CNN during ...Continue Reading »

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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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  • Criado por
    Stan Deaton
  • Anos de atividade
    2017 - 2026
  • Episódios
    50
  • Classificação
    Livre
  • Copyright
    © Copyright Stan Deaton
  • Site do podcast
    Off the Deaton Path