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  • S10E9 Podcast: Pulitzer Prize Winner Alan Taylor

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

    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 »
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  • S10E7 Podcast: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith

    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 »
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  • S10E6 Podcast: A New History of Lewis & Clark

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

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

    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 »
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  • S10E3 Podcast: Whitfield Remembrance Project

    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 »
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  • S10E2 Podcast: American Patriarch: George Washington

    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 »
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