Our Living History

Hey!!! We would love to hear from you about any questions or topics or locations that you want to hear about. You are the reason that we do what we do!!! Once a historic place is gone, photographs, books, and historical markers can preserve part of its story, but they can never completely replace the original place. In this episode of Our Living History, I discuss the growing pressure facing historic sites, battlefields, museums, historic buildings, and culturally significant landscapes. Thi...

Hey!!! We would love to hear from you about any questions or topics or locations that you want to hear about. You are the reason that we do what we do!!! Before daylight on August 3, 1864, an exhausted Union cavalry command resting near King’s Tanyard was struck by Confederate pursuers. In this episode of Our Living History, we examine the Battle of King’s Tanyard, also known as the Battle of Jug Tavern. The engagement occurred near present-day Winder, Georgia, during the closing stages of M...

Hey!!! We would love to hear from you about any questions or topics or locations that you want to hear about. You are the reason that we do what we do!!! What really happened at the Battle of the Narrows, also known as the Battle of Currahee Mountain? In this episode of Our Living History, we examine the surviving evidence behind a little known Civil War encounter reported near Baldwin, Georgia, on October 12, 1864. According to a Georgia Historical Commission marker erected in 1953, Confede...

Hey!!! We would love to hear from you about any questions or topics or locations that you want to hear about. You are the reason that we do what we do!!! The Battle of Yorktown was not won in a single dramatic charge. It was won by closing a trap—on land, at sea, and through three weeks of siege warfare. In this episode of Our Living History, we visit Yorktown Battlefield and follow the 1781 campaign that brought George Washington, the Comte de Rochambeau, and Admiral de Grasse together agai...

Hey!!! We would love to hear from you about any questions or topics or locations that you want to hear about. You are the reason that we do what we do!!! On August 16, 1780, the larger American army under General Horatio Gates faced Lord Charles Cornwallis near Camden, South Carolina—and collapsed in roughly forty-five minutes. In this narrative episode, we follow the British Southern Strategy, Gates’s march toward Camden, the unexpected nighttime collision between the two armies, the placem...