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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.

Podcast · By Stan Deaton · American English · Official site

Indexed episodes, last 90 days
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Sep 10, 2026
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Jul 16, 2026

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  1. Episode · Sep 10, 2026

    S10E6 Podcast: A New History of Lewis & Clark (opens the original)

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    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 »

  2. Episode · Aug 27, 2026

    S10E5 Podcast: Out of the Ballpark: How to Think About Baseball (opens the original)

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    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 »

  3. Episode · Aug 13, 2026

    S10E4 Podcast: Contested Continent: The Oxford History of the United States (opens the original)

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    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 »

  4. Episode · Jul 31, 2026

    S10E3 Podcast: Whitfield Remembrance Project (opens the original)

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    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 »

  5. Episode · Jul 16, 2026

    S10E2 Podcast: American Patriarch: George Washington (opens the original)

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    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 »

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