Podcast Episodes

S8E9 Podcast: The Fascinating But Forgotten Founder

Stan’s guest is historian Jane Calvert, author of Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson, published in October ...

S8E8 Podcast: John Lewis: A Life

Stan’s guest this week is historian and journalist David Greenberg of Rutgers University, talking about his new tour-de-force biography of ...

S8E7 Podcast: A Southern Underground Railroad

Stan’s guest this week is historian Paul Pressly, discussing his new book, A Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians and the ...

S8E6 Podcast: “That’s Not Who We Are”—Or is it? An Interview with Pulitzer Prize Winner Steven Hahn

Stan interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Steven Hahn about his latest book, Illiberal America: A History, which argues that what happened ...

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

Stan’s guest this week is historian Evan Friss, author of the bestselling new release, The Bookshop: A History of the ...

S8E4 Podcast: New York Times Reporter Adam Nagourney

Stan interviews veteran New York Times reporter Adam Nagourney about his recent book, The Times: How the Newspaper of Record ...

S8E2: Pulitzer Prize Winner Jacqueline Jones

Stan talks to historian Jacqueline Jones about her book, No Right to An Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black ...

S8E1 Podcast: Back to School! Plus, A Secret Tunnel Behind Lincoln’s Head on Mt. Rushmore?

Join Stan as he launches a new season of Off the Deaton Path with a recap of one of the ...