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Robert is available as a guest speaker in Georgia, South Carolina, southern Tennessee, eastern Alabama, eastern Kansas, western Missouri and SE Pennsylvania.  A $25-$50 honorarium is requested to help defray fuel costs.  The typical length of a presentation by Robert is in the 30/40 minute range.  He will bring any or all of the books listed on this site for sale.

Robert is available as a speaker outside of the geographies listed above if travel, lodging and food expenses are provided. 

To see a video of Robert giving a lecture, click here.

Lecture Categories Include:

Civil War

Revolutionary War

Inluential Women in History

War of 1812

World War I

World War II

Colonial America

Old West and Ghost towns

Railroads

Music Lectures

Christian History

Topics

Civil War/War Between the States

• 1863: Turning Point of the Civil War?
• 1864: Year of Decision in the West
• 1865:  End of the War
  • Overview
  • The Last Days of Lee's Army
  • Sherman's Carolinas Campaign
  • Wilson't Raid
• 1865:  End of the War in Alabama
• 1865:  End of the War in Georgia
• Abel Streight's Raid in Alabama
• Abraham Lincoln: Sinner or Saint?
• Battle of Allatoona Pass
• Battles for Mobile (Spanish Fort, Fort Blakely)
• Battles for Chattanooga: Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge
• Battle of Chickamauga
• Battle of Fort Henry
• Battle of Griswoldville
• Battle of Mobile Bay
• Battle for New Orleans
• Battle of Port Royal
• Battle of Westport
• Battle of Wilson's Creek
• Biography lectures:
• Abraham Lincoln
• Assassination conspirators: John Wilkes Booth/Mary Surratt
• Confederate Navy: Semmes, Buchanan, Mallory
• Confederate Raiders: William Quantrill, "Bloody Bill" Anderson
• Edmund Ruffin
• Francis & Lucy Pickens
• George Armstrong Custer
• Georgia Confederate politicians: Stephens, Cobb, Toombs
• Herman Haupt
• Jefferson Davis
• Jo Shelby and the Iron Brigade
• Kit Carson: Scout, Indian Fighter, Brigadier General
• Lee's Corps Commanders:  Jackson, Longstreet
• Mary and James Chesnut, Jr.
• Northern cabinet members: Stanton, Seward
• Northern nurses: Barton, Dix, Bickerdyke
• Radical Republicans: Stevens, Sumner
• Robert E. Lee
• Samuel Curtis
• Southern philosophers: Calhoun, Fitzhugh, Yancey
• Stephen Dill Lee
• Sterling Price
•  Ulysses Grant
• Union Admirals:  Porter, Farragut, Dahlgren
• Union Raiders: James Lane, Charles Jennison, John Brown
• Wade Hampton
• William Tecumseh Sherman
• Bleeding Kansas: The Real Start of the Civil War
• Confederate Mines and Manufacturies in Alabama
• Confederate Mines and Manufacturies in Georgia
• Confederate Mines & Manufactories
• Charleston Harbor
• Christianity and the Civil War
• Civil War in Alabama
• Civil War in Georgia
• Civil War in Kansas
• Civil War in Oklahoma
• Civil War in South Carolina
• Civil War Prison Camps (overview)
• Northern prison camps (drill-down)
• Southern prison camps (drill-down)
• Civil War Ruins in the Atlanta Area
• Civil War Timeline (an overview of Civil War events)
• Confederate Invasion of New Mexico
  • Battle of Glorieta Pass (The Gettysburg of the West)
  • Battle of Valverde

• CSS Alabama
• CSS Arkansas

• Fort Fisher
• Hatteras Inlet

• Lincoln Assassination
  • Overview
  • The Conspirators
  • The Assassination
  • The Search for John Wilkes Booth
  • Trial and Sentencing
  • Conspiracy Theories
• Lost Gold of the Confederacy
• McCook's Cavalry Raid South of Atlanta (includes the Battle of Brown's Mill)
• Missouri in the Civil War 
• North Georgia Guerilla:  Tom Polk Edmondson and the Battle of Bucktown
• Retracing the Route of Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
• Retracing the Route of the General - Following in the Footsteps of the Andrews Raid
• Retracing the Route of Sherman's March to the Sea

• Rise of the Ironclads, and the Monitor and the Merrimack

• Sherman's Destruction of Georgia's Railroads
• Shelling of Fort Sumter: 1861 & 1863
• Songs of the Confederacy (the author performs several Civil War songs, and describes their origins)
• Songs of the Union (the author performs several Civil War songs, and describes their origins
• Stand Watie and the Cherokee Confederates
• Sterling Price’s Missouri Expedition (1864) 
• Top 10 Reasons the Civil War was Won in the West
• Top 10 Civil War Spies and Irregulars (Confederacy)
• Top 10 Civil War Spies and Irregulars (Union)
• Top Ten Most Critical Moments of the Civil War
• Top Ten Best Generals of the Civil War
• Top Ten Worst Generals of the Civil War
• Top 10 Impacts of the Civil War on Modern Warfare
• Top 10 Most Influential Nurses in the Civil War
• Top 10 Most Influential People in the Confederacy
• Top 10 Most Influential People in the Union
• Top Ten Most Influential Women of the Civil War (Confederacy)
• Top Ten Most Influential Women of the Civil War (Union)
• The Undefeated:  Jo Shelby and the Iron Brigade 
• United Confederate Veterans
• United States Military Railroad
• Why the North won the War:  Railroads
• William Tecumseh Sherman: Saint or Sinner?
• Wilson's Raid

Revolutionary War

• The Revolutionary War in Georgia
• The Revolutionary War in South Carolina
• Valley Forge: The Long Encampment
• Daniel Boone and the American Revolution
• Battles for Philadelphia (1777)
• Christianity and the Revolutionary War
• Washington Crosses the Delaware (includes Princeton)
• Battle of Monmouth
• Battles for Fort Mifflin and Fort Mercer (Red Bank)
• The Revolutionary War in Georgia and South Carolina
• The Revolutionary War in Pennsylvania
• The Revolutionary War in New Jersey
• Revolutionary War Timeline
• Heroines of the Revolutionary War
• Mutinies in Washington's Army
• Songs of the Revolutionary War Era (The author sings 10 songs from the Revolutionary War era, and discusses their origins)
• Washington's Spies During the British Occupation of Philadelphia
• Biographies:
  • George Washington
  • Continental Generals: Wayne and Greene
  • Continental Generals: Lafayette and von Steuben
  • British Generals: Howe and Cornwallis
  • Philadelphia Freedom:  Betsy Ross and Esther de Berdt Reed
  • First ladies:  Martha Washington
    Abigail Adams
  • Southern belles: Kate Barry and Nancy Hart
  • Authors:  Tom Paine and Mercy Otis Warren
  • Women on the battlefield: Molly Pitcher and Margaret Cochran Corbin
  • Midnight Riders: Paul Revere and Sybil Ludington
  • South Carolina heroes: Daniel Morgan and Francis Marion (The Swamp Fox)
  • Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys
  • John Paul Jones and Battle of Flamborough Head (Bonhomme Richard)
  • Inspriring the Revolution: Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine
  • Alexander Hamilton
  • Boys from Boston:  John Adams and Samuel Adams
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • John Hancock
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • James Madison: "Father of the Constitution"
  • Spies for the cause: Nathan Hale and Lydia Barrington Darragh
  • Georgia Heroes of the Revolution
  • South Carolina Heroes of the Revolution (Pickens, Sumter, Marion)

War of 1812

• War of 1812 (overview)
• Battle of the Thames
• The Battle of Plattsburgh (Battle of Lake Champlain)
• Battle of Tippecanoe
• Battle of Lake Erie
• The War of 1812 in Georgia and Alabama
• Battle of Horseshoe Bend
• Burning of Washington (includes the Battle of Bladensburg)
• Battle of Baltimore, and the Star-Spangled Banner
• Battle of New Orleans
• First Seminole War
• Battle of Niagara Falls
• Biographies:
  • Andrew Jackson
  • William Henry Harrision
  • Thomas Macdonough
  • James Madison
  • Dolly (Dolley) Madison
  • Tecumseh
  • Oliver Hazard Perry

Colonial America

• Puritans and Pilgrims
• The Settling of the Amish and Mennonites in Pennsylvania
• William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania
• Frontier Missouri (overview)
• Frontier Towns of Missouri (overview)
• The Founding of Georgia (Oglethorpe, etc.)
• Colonial Georgia (1733-1800)
• Methodists, Lutherans and Presbyterians in Early Georgia
• The Great Awakening (Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield)
• Salem Witch Trials
• Yazoo Land Fraud (Georgia)
• Colonial Methodists
• Shakers
• Biographies:

• Ben Franklin
• Cotton Mather
• William Bradford
• James Oglethorpe
• Anne Hutchinson
• Methodists in Colonial America (Asbury, Wesley, Whitefield)
• Mother Ann Lee and the Shakers in America
• Roger Williams
• Mary Musgrove, Empress of Georgia
• Daniel Boone

Railroad

Georgia Railroads

• A Brief history of the Locomotive General
• A Brief history of the Western & Atlantic Railroad
• Georgia railroads of the 19th Century (overview)
• Georgia railroads of the 20th century (overview)
• Key players in Georgia 19th century railroading

Civil War

• How railroads won the Civil War
• Confederate Railroads
• The railroad men that won the Civil War
• Sherman's Destruction of Georgia's Railroads
• Great Locomotive Chase

Misc.

• Frontier Railroads of Missouri
• History of the Pennsylvania Railroad
• History of the Reading Railroad
• Top 20 Railroad Songs (the author performs several railroad songs, and describes their origins
• Frontier railroads of Kansas

 Atlanta Area

• Ghost Towns and Mills of the Atlanta Area
• History of Kennesaw, GA
• History of Cooper's Furnace
• Pre-Civil War mills in the Atlanta area
• Post-Civil War mills in the Atlanta area
• Civil War Ruins in the Atlanta Area

World War I

• Heroines of World War I
• Top 10 Innovations of World War I
• Biography: Hunter Liggett, Billy Mitchell, George Marshall, George S. Patton, John J. Pershing, Eddie Rickenbacker, Alvin York, Douglas MacArthur, Mata Hari
• Russian Revolution
• Music of the World War I and II Era
• America in World War I: The Battles
• America in World War I:  The Road to War
• The Lost Battalion
• Meuse-Argonne Offensive
• America at Sea in World War I
• The Spanish Flu Pandemic

World War II

• Heroines of World War II
• The Top Innovations of World War II (overview)
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb
• The Nazis and the Atom Bomb
• V-2 rockets
• Enigma and the first computer
• Office of Strategic Services
• Music of the World War I and II Era
• Maranzano Japanese Relocation Camp
• Biographies:
• Robert Oppenheimer
• Enrico Fermi
• Alan Turing
• Walther von Braun
• Albert Einstein
• Robert H. Goddard
• Edward Teller
• Werner Heisenberg
• Wild Bill Donovan
• Werner von Braun
• George Marshall
• George S. Patton
• Douglas MacArthur
• Anne Frank
• Lyudmilla Pavlichenko 
• Leni Riefenstahl and Hanna Reitsch
• Eleanor Roosevelt

The Old West and Ghost Towns

• Allan Pinkerton
• Ancient Indian Pueblos of New Mexico
• Billy the Kid
• Comstock Lode
• Doc Holliday
• Frontier Towns in Kansas
• Frontier Forts of Kansas
• Frontier Trails of Kansas (Oregon, Santa Fe, etc.)
• George Armstrong Custer
• Frontier Railroads of Kansas
• Guarding the Frontier:  U.S. Army Forts in New Mexico in the 19th Century
• Ghost Towns and Mills of the Atlanta Area
• Ghost Towns of Death Valley - As They Appear Today
• Ghost Towns of Mojave National Preserve
• Jesse James
• Charles Manson in Death Valley
• Mysteries and Wonders of Death Valley
• Mysteries and Wonders of Mojave National Preserve
• Search for a Lost Death Valley Ghost Town
• The Last Invasion: Pancho Villa Invades Columbus, NM
• The Superstitions and the Lost Dutchman's Mine
• The Top 10 Gunslingers of the Old West
• Top 10 Lawmen of the Old West
• Wild Bill Hickok
• Wyatt Earp
• George Armstrong Custer
• Pony Express
• Buffalo Bill Cody
• Frontier Railroads of Kansas
• Western songs ( (the author performs several western/western swing songs), and describes their origins

Music lectures

Robert sings 10 songs and explains their origins.

• Civil War
• Railroad songs
• Revolutionary War
• Western & Western Swing
• All-American Songs (18th & 19th century)
• Christmas (good for sing-alongs)
• Music of the World War I and II Era
• Music of the Vietnam War Era
• Songs of America's Wars

Influential Women

• Heroines of World War I
• Heroines of World War II
• Heroines of the American Revolution
• Influential Women of South Carolina History
• South Carolina Heroines of the American Revolution
• Influential Women of Georgia History (18th/19th Century)
• Influential Women of Georgia History (20th/21st Century)
• Top Ten Most Influential Women of the Civil War (CSA)
• Top Ten Most Influential Women of the Civil War (Union)
• Influential Women of Kansas History
• Influential Women of Missouri History
• Influential Women of the Bible
• Influential Women of the Christian Church
• Famous suffragette heroines
• Famous abolitionist heroines
• Famous prohibitionist heroines
• Biographies:
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Susan B. Anthony
• Carrie Nation
• Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman
• Hedy Lamarr and her wireless torpedo
• Margaret Mitchell
• Rosalyn Carter
• Coretta Scott King
• Betty Grable
• Amelia Earhart

Christian History

• A Brief History of the Crusades
• A Brief History of the Inquisition
• Christianity and the Civil War
• The Historical King Arthur
• The Knights Templar
• Oliver Cromwell and the English Civil War
• Protestant Revivals and Social Movements in the United States
• The Protestant Reformation
• Richard the Lionheart
• "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" (the author delivers the famous 18th century sermon by Jonathan Edwards)

See http://www.sundayschoolcourses.com/speaker.htm for more topics

Sermons

From time to time I am asked to fill in for a pastor and deliver a sermon.  Here are several videos that show sermons I've done in the last year or so:

"Does Hell Exist"

"The Historical Jesus"

"Protestantism: How Did We Get Where We Are Today?"

"Revival"  

Science and Technology

• The Making of the Atomic Bomb
• The Nazis and the Atom Bomb
• V-2 rockets
• Enigma and the first computer
• Biographies:
• Robert Oppenheimer
• Enrico Fermi
• Alan Turing
• Albert Einstein
• Robert H. Goddard
• Edward Teller
• Werner Heisenberg

Lecture Topics By State

Georgia

• Influential Women of Georgia History (18th/19th Century)
• Influential Women of Georgia History (20th/21st Century)
• 1865:  End of the War in Georgia
• A Brief History of the Locomotive General
• A Brief History of the Western & Atlantic Railroad
  
• Battle of Allatoona Pass (Civil War)
  
• Battle of Chickamauga (Civil War)
  
• Battle of Griswoldville (Civil War)
  
• Civil War in Georgia
  
• Civil War Ruins in the Atlanta Area
• Fort Frederica and the Spanish Invasion of Georgia
  
• The Founding of Georgia (James Oglethorpe, etc.)
  
• Georgia Heroes of the Revolution
  
• Georgia Confederate politicians: Stephens, Cobb, Toombs
  
• Ghost Towns and Mills of the Atlanta Area
  
• History of Cooper's Furnace
  
• History of Kennesaw, GA (includes the Gun law)
  
• Kenner Garrard’s Raid on Conyers and Covington
  
• Lost Gold of the Confederacy (includes Washington, Georgia)
  
• Lutherans, Methodists and Presbyterians in early Georgia
• Mary Musgrove, Empress of Georgia
• McCook's Cavalry Raid South of Atlanta (includes the Battle of Brown's Mill)
  
• Retracing the Route of Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
• Retracing the Route of Sherman's March to the Sea
  
• Retracing the Route of the General - Following in the Footsteps of the Andrews Raid
  
• Sherman's Destruction of Georgia's Railroads
  
• The Revolutionary War in Georgia
  
• The War of 1812 in Georgia and Alabama        
• Wilson's Raid (Alabama and Georgia)
• Yazoo Land Fraud
• Brief history of the Georgia Railroad
• Georgia railroads of the 19th Century (overview)
• Brief history of the Southern Railroad
• Key players in Georgia 19th century railroading
• Martha Berry
• Coretta Scott King
• Juliette Gordon Low
  
  

Alabama

• Able Streight’s Raid
• Alabama and Georgia in the War of 1812
• Battle of Mobile Bay
• Battles for Mobile (Spanish Fort, Fort Blakely)
• Confederate Mines and Manufactories in Alabama
• CSS Alabama
• Heroes of Alabama in the War Between the States (Pelham, Sansom, Juliet Hopkins, John Inzer, Joseph Wheeler)
• The Civil War in Alabama
• The End of the Civil War in Alabama: 1865

 Kansas

• Bleeding Kansas: The Real Start of the Civil War
• Frontier Towns in Kansas (Abilene, Dodge City, Ellsworth, Kansas City, Lawrence, Leavenworth, Lecompton, Salina, Topeka, Wichita)
• Frontier Forts of Kansas (Fort Dodge, Fort Harker, Fort Hays, Fort Larned, Fort Leavenworth,Fort Riley, Fort Scott)
• Frontier Trails of Kansas (Oregon, Santa Fe, etc.)
• Kansas in the Civil War
• William Quantrill, Bloody Bill Anderson and Jesse James (biography)
• George Armstrong Custer
• Frontier Railroads of Kansas
• Pony Express

Missouri

• Missouri in the Civil War
• Frontier Missouri (overview)
• Frontier Railroads of Missouri
• Frontier Towns Of Missouri (overview)
• Frontier Kansas City
• Frontier St. Louis
• Jesse James
• Confederate Raiders: William Quantrill, "Bloody Bill" Anderson
• Sterling Price
• Sterling Price’s Missouri Expedition (1864) 
• The Undefeated:  Jo Shelby and the Iron brigade 
• Battle of Wilson’s Creek
• Battle of Westport
• Influential Women in Missouri's History

South Carolina

• Influential Women in South Carolina History
• South Carolina Heroines of the American Revolution
• Battle of Port Royal (Civil War)
• Battles for Charleston Harbor (Civil War)
• Francis Marion: The Swamp Fox
• Sherman's Carolinas Campaign (Civil War)
• South Carolina in the Revolutionary War
• South Carolina heroes of the Revolution (Pickens, Sumter, Marion)
• Shelling of Fort Sumter: 1861 & 1863
• Biographies:
• John C. Calhoun
• Mary and James Chesnut, Jr.
• Wade Hampton
• Stephen Dill Lee
• Francis & Lucy Pickens
• Edmund Ruffin

New Mexico

• Billy the Kid (biography)
• Confederate Invasion of New Mexico (Glorieta Pass, Battle of Valverde)
• Frontier Forts of New Mexico
• Ghost Towns of New Mexico
• Kit Carson (Biography)
• The Last Invasion:  Pancho Villa’s attack on Columbus, New Mexico
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Manhattan Project)

Pennsylvania

• Battles for Philadelphia (Brandywine, Germantown, Whitemarsh)
• Betsy Ross, Esther de Berdt Reed, Lydia Barrington Darragh (biographies)
• History of the Pennsylvania Railroad
• History of the Reading Railroad
• A Brief History of Anthracite Coal Mining in Pennsylvania
• The Molly Maguires and Labor Unrest in the Pennsylvania Anthracite Fields
• Valley Forge: The Long Encampment
• Battles for Fort Mifflin and Fort Mercer (Red Bank)
• The Settling of the Amish and Mennonites in Pennsylvania
• William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania

New Jersey

• Battles for Fort Mifflin and Fort Mercer (Red Bank)
  
• The Revolutionary War in New Jersey

Tennessee

• Andrew Jackson (biography)
• Battles for Chattanooga (Civil War)
• Tullahoma Campaign

California

• Ghost Towns of Death Valley - As They Appear Today
• Ghost Towns of Mojave National Preserve
• Mysteries and Wonders of Death Valley
• Mysteries and Wonders of Mojave National Preserve
• Search for a Lost Death Valley Ghost Town

Oklahoma

• The Civil War in Oklahoma
• Stand Waite and the Cherokee Confederates
• Biographies:  James Blunt, Douglas Cooper

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Schedule 2018

January 2018

January 2, 2018: Watkinsville, GA SAR/6:45 p.m./TBD

January 11, 2018: Alabama Civil War Roundtable/6:00, Civil War Railroads

January 18, 2018:  Alpharetta/Old Milton Historical Society/7:00, Georgia Railroads of the 19th Century

January 20, 2018:  Kennesaw Mountain Chapter, NSDAR/9:30, TBD

January 22, 2018: Upson Historical Society, Thomaston, GA/7:00, Founding of Georgia

Jnaury 25, 2018:  Bartow History Museum/7:00, America in the Great War 

February 2018

February 4, 2018: Free Facebook Live lecture/10:00a, The Crusades

February 8, 2018:  Hobkirk Hill Chapter of the DAR, Camden, SC/3:30, Heroines of the Revolutionary War

Feburary 10, 2018:  Atlanta DAR/10:15, Heroines of the Revolutionary War

Feburary 12, 2018:  Martha Stewart Bulloch Chapter DAR , Roswell, GA/10:00, Colonial Georgia

Feburary 20, 2018:  Etowah DAR/3:00, Heroines of the Revolutionary War 

March 2018

March 1, 2018:  Roswell Historical Society/7:00, Georgia Railroads of the 19th Century

March 4, 2018:  Facebook Live broadcast/10:00am, Crusades

March 6th, 2018:  Fayette-Starr's Mill DAR/6:30, Georgia Heroes of the Revolution 

March 8, 2018: Cleveland, TN SAR/6:30, Spies for the Cause

March 10, 2018:  College Hill DAR/??, Spies for the Cause: Nathan Hale and Lydia Barrington Darragh

March 13, 2018:  Save Acworth History Foundation (Roberts Community and Education Center)/7:00, Lost Gold of the Confederacy

March 15, 2018:  James Waldrop Chapter DAR/11:00, Heroines of the American Revolution

March 24, 2018: National Society Daughters of the Union 1861-1865/11:00, Retracing the Route of Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign

April 2018

April 3/7, 2018:  GSSDAR State Convention;  will have a book table

April 8, 2018:  Facebook Live broadcast/10:00am, Crusades

April 8, 2018:  Reverend John Andrew Chapter, NSDAR, Watkinsville, Georgia/2:30, Heroines of the American Revolution

April 14, 2018 (rain date April 15, 2018):  UDC Kennesaw Chapter 241/2:00, The End of the Confederacy 

April 16, 2018:  Carrollton SCV/TBD, United Confederate Veterans

April 19, 2018:  Jackson, Georgia DAR/1:30, Mary Musgrove, Empress of Georgia

April 21, 2018:  Patrick R. Cleburne SCV Camp 1361/9:00, McCook's Raid and the Battle of Brown's Mill

April 26, 2018:  Newnan-Coweta Historical Society/TBD, Civil War ruins in the Atlanta area

April 29, 2018:  Resaca Confederate Cemetary/2:00

May 2018

May 1, 2018:  Enrichment of Life Movement (ELM)/TBD, Death Valley Ghost Towns

May 2, 2018:  Barrington Hall (Roswell, GA)/TBD, The Revolutionary War in South Carolina and Georgia

May 3, 2018:  Roswell Mills SCV/TBD, TBD

May 6, 2018:  Free Facebook Live broadcast on the Fourth Crusade, plus the Albigensian Crusade. 10:00 a.m.

May 8, 2018:  Conyers SCV/7:30, The Civil War in Georgia 

May 11, 2018:  Agnes Lee Chapter UDC/TBD, Top Ten Most Influential Women of the Civil War (CSA)

May 15, 2018:  Stiles/Akin camp #670 in Cassville, GA /7:00p, Cooper's Furnace

May 16, 2018:  Jefferson, GA DAR/11:30, Revolutionary War in Georgia 

June 2018

June 7, 2018: Watkinsville SCV/6:45, Most Influential Women of the Confederacy

June 8, 2018:  National Garden Railways Convention (NGRC), Cobb Galleria Center/6:00, A History of Georgia Railroads

June 17, 2018:  Free Facebook Live broadcast on the end of the Crusades. 10:00 a.m.

June 20, 2018:  Kennesaw Battlefield Camp/6:00, Confederate Mines and Manufacturies in Georgia

July 2019

July 8, 2018:  Free Facebook Live broadcast on Women as Leaders in the Church: The Bible/10:00 a.m.

July 11, 2018:  Barrington Hall (Roswell, GA)/7:00, History of the Western & Atlantic Railroad

July 20, 2018:  12^th Armored Division reunion/6:00p, Most influential innovations of World War II

July 23, 2018:  Gen William J. Hardee Camp # 1397/7:30, Wade Hampton

July 28, 2018:  National Day of the Cowboy - Booth Museum (outdoor village)/10:00-3:00

August 2018

August 4, 2018:  Augusta Genealogical Society Homecoming Seminar (book table)

August 12, 2018:  Free Facebook Live broadcast on Women as Leaders in the Church: The Bible/10:00 a.m.

August 13, 2018:  Central Georgia Genealogical Society/7:00, 19th Century Georgia Railroads

September 2018 (Kansas/Missouri)

September 4, 2018:   Independence Pioneers Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution/lunch, Heroines of the American Revolution

September 6, 2018:  Lenexa SCV/TBA, Southern philosophers: Calhoun, Fitzhugh, Yancey

September 8, 2018:  Little Blue River NSDAR/10:00, Women on the Battlefield

September 10, 2018:  Raytown Missouri chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution/6:30, Washington's Spies 

September 11, 2018, Kansas City Posse of Westerners/ dinner meeting, Pony Express

September 12, 2018:  Peleg Gorton Chapter DAR/1:30, Bleeding Kansas

September 13, 2018: SCV Camp, South Kansas #2064/Wichita, KS/5:30, Confederate Invasion of New Mexico

September 16, 2018:  Military Order of the Purple Heart MO-115 Chapter in Kansas City, World War I Museum, 2:00, Battle of Westport

September 20, 2018:  Monticello Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution (Shawnee, KS)/TBD

September 21, 2018:  Ponca City, Oklahoma DAR/12:45, Women on the Battlefield: Molly Pitcher and Margaret Cochran Corbin

September 27, 2018: Leavenworth SAR/6:00, TBD

October 2018

October 1/14, 2018: Not available (research)

October 17, 2018:  Kennworth Kiwanis/Acworth/11:00, Bleeding Kansas

October 18, 2018:  Heard Co. Historical Society/5:30, South Carolina and Georgia in the American Revolution

October 21, 2018:  Free Facebook Live broadcast, topic TBD/10:00 a.m.

October 24, 2018:  Barrington Hall/7:00, Retracing the Route of Sherman's Atlanta Campaign

October 25, 2018:  Sandy Springs Chapter DAR/11:00, Georgia Heroes of the Revolution

October 25, 2018:  Leonidas Polk SCV/7:00, Battle of Griswoldville

October 27, 2018:  Barrington Hall/10:00, Retracing the Route of Sherman's March to the Sea

November 2018

November 1, 2018:  Roswell Mills Camp/6:00, Technology Innovations of World War I

November 3, 2018:  Kennesaw Mountain Chapter NSDAR/9:30, Siege of Savannah

November 13 , 2018:  Cherokee SAR/11:00, The American Revolution in Pennsylvania

November 20, 2018:  Patrick R. Cleburne Chapter, UDC/11:00, The Heroes of Alabama In the War Between the States

November 27, 2018:  Thomaston SCV/7:00, UCV

December 2018

December 1, 2018:  Richard B. Russell State Park/11:00, Battle of Vann's Creek

December 6, 2018:  Samuel Robert SAR/7:00, South Carolina in the American Revolution

December 7, 2018:  Bartow History Museum/morning

December 13, 2018:  Stand Watie SCV/TBD, Stand Watie and the Cherokee Confederates

Schedule 2019

January 2019

January 17, 2019:  St.Clair Camp 308, Ashville, AL/TBD, TBD

January 18, 2019:  Marietta Town Committee of The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in State of Georgia/10:30, TBD

January 24, 2019:  Henry Walton DAR, Madison, GA/1:00, TBD

February 2019

February 8, 2019 :  Georgia Archives/12:00-1:00, Colonial Georgia

February 21, 2019:  Alpharetta Historical Society/7pm, Georgia Railroads in the 19th Century

March 2019

March 6, 2019/Cartersville UDC/2:00, Civil War Music (Confederate)

March 13, 2019:  Barrington Hall/7:00, Wyatt Earp

March 30, 2019:  Barrington Hall/10:00, Kit Carson

May 2019

May 14, 2019:  Kennesaw Historical Society/7:00, Georgia Railroads in the 19th Century

May 23, 2019:  Nicolas Wallingford Colonial Dames/11:00, Songs of the Revolutionary War Era

September 2019 (South Carolina)

September 5, 2019:  B/G Martin W. Gary Camp #1532/7:00, TBD

September 8, 2019:  Old Edgefield Distrtict Genealogical Society/3:00, TBD

September 9, 2019:  Beaufort SCV/TBD, TBD

September 12, 2019:  Hobkirk Hill Chapter of the DAR, Camden, SC/3:30, TBD

September 17, 2019:  Charleston SCV/TBD, TBD

September 20, 2019:  Beaufort, SC SAR/TBD, TBD

September 26, 2019:  Camp 36 the 16th volunteers of Greenville SC/TBD, TBD

October 2019 (Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma)

October 1, 2018:   Independence Pioneers Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution/lunch, TBD

October 5, 2019:  Boonville DAR/10:00, “Daniel Boone and the American Revolution” 

October 8, 2019:  Kansas City Posse of Westerners/dinner meeting, TBD

October 10, 2019:  South Kansas (Wichita) SCV/TBD, TBD

October 12, 2019:  Little Blue River DAR/10:00 TBD

October 18, 2019:  Ponca City, Oklahoma DAR/12:45, TBD

October 19, 2019:  Harrisonville DAR/10:00, TBD

2010/2017 lectures

SCV/SUV/UDC/DUV

• Alfred Holt Colquitt Chapter 2018 UDC
• Auburn AL
• Anniston, AL UDC
• Ashville, AL SCV
• Athens, GA
• Atlanta, GA
• Augusta, GA SCV
• Barnesville SCV Camp
• Beaufort SCV/Beaufort Arsenal, Beaufort SC
• Birmingham, AL UDC
• McDaniel-Curtis Camp 165,Carrollton GA
• Cartersville, GA UDC
• Chattanooga, TN
• Conyers, GA SCV
• Cumming GA SCV
• Dallas, GA (New Hope Church)
• Daughters of the Union, Atlanta, GA
• Decatur, GA UDC
• Eatonton, GA
• Emma Sansom Chapter UDC, Rome, GA
• Fayetteville, GA SCV
• Fayetteville, TN
• Fort Payne, AL UDC
• Gainesville, GA SCV
• Heard County Rangers, Franklin, GA
• Henry County, GA SCV
• Jackson County, GA SCV
• John's Creek, GA
• Jonesboro, GA SCV
• Kennesaw, GA UDC
• Kennesaw, GA SCV
• Knoxville, TN
• Ladies of the Plains UDC (Topeka, KS)
• Lawrence, KS SUV
• Lawrenceville, GA
• Lenexa, KS
• Lexington, SC UDC
• Major John C. Hutto Camp #443, Jasper, AL
• Major Thomas J. Key Camp #1920, Lenexa, GA
• Mableton, GA
• McDonough, Ga
• Newnan, GA SCV
• Palmetto, GA
• Roanoke, Alabama UDC
• Rome, GA
• Roswell, GA SCV
• Smyrna, GA SCV
• Stone Mountain, GA SCV
• Sylvester, GA SCV
• Tallassee, AL
• Thomaston, Ga SCV
• Toccoa, GA
• Topeka, KS
• Valdosta, GA UDC
• Villa Rica, GA SCV
• Warner Robins, GA SCV
• Watkinsville, GA
• Wichita, KS SCV
• Zebulon, GA

SAR

• Atlanta Chapter Sons Of The American Revolution
• Birmingham Chapter, SAR
• Button Gwinnett SAR, Gwinnett County, GA
• Cahaba-Coosa Chapter SAR, Birmingham, AL
• Cherokee SAR (Canton, GA)
• Cleveland, TN SAR
• Coweta Fall Chapter SAR, Columbus, GA
• Marquis de Lafayette, Peachtree City, GA  SAR
• Monticello Chapter, SAR, Shawnee, KS
• John Collins Chapter, Marietta, GA SAR
• Piedmont SAR, Roswell, GA
• Richard Henry Lee Chapter SAR, Auburn, Alabama
• Rome Chapter (GA) SAR
• Washington-Wilkes SAR
• Watkinsville, GA SAR

DAR

• Atlanta Chapter DAR
• Barry Springs DAR, Centre, Alabama
• Birmingham DAR
• Cherokee Chapter NSDAR
• College Hill Chapter NSDAR
• Elijah Clarke Chapter, DAR, Athens, GA
• Etowah DAR
• Eunice Sterling DAR (Wichita, KS)
• Fayette-Starr's Mill DAR
• General James Jackson Chapter, NSDAR, Valdosta, GA
• Independence Hall Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution
• Hawkinsville Chapter NSDAR
• Hightower Trail Chapter, NSDAR, Conyers, GA
• Hilton Head Island, SC DAR
• Hobkirk Hill Chapter of the DAR, Camden, SC
• Lebanon, PA DAR
• Nathaniel Macon Chapter, NSDAR, Macon, GA
• Little Blue River Chapter NSDAR (Grandview, Missouri)
• Mahantongo Chapter DAR, Pottsville, PA
• Marietta, GA DAR
• Martha Bulloch Chapter DAR, Roswell, GA
• Matthew Talbot NSDAR Chapter (Monroe. GA
• )Mission Hills Chapter DAR
• Nation Ford Chapter, NSDAR, Fort Mill, SC
• Old Noonday Chapter, NSDAR
• Peachtree City, GA DAR
• Robert Loughridge DAR Chapter, Dalton, GA
• Rockdale County DAR
• Sandy Springs Chapter, NSDAR
• Savannah DAR
• Toccoa, GA DAR
• Tomochichi Chapter DAR, Cornelia, GA
• White Alloe DAR chapter (Parkville, MO)
• Zavier Chapter DAR, Rome, GA

Historical Societies and Associations

• Alpharetta Historical Society
• Catoosa County Historical Society
• Chattooga County Historical Society
• Cherokee County Historical Society
• The Cobb County Genealogical Society
• Colonial Dames 17th Century Thomas Johnson Chapter
• Colonial Dames, Jonesboro, GA
• Coweta County Genealogical Society/Newnan, GA
• Dixie Relic Club
• Douglas County, Georgia Genealogical Society
• Etowah Historical Society (Gadsden, AL)
• Fayette County (GA) Historical Society
• Genealogical Society of Clayton and Henry Counties
• Genealogical Society of Gilmer County
• Georgia Chapter Trail of Tears Association
• Georgia Society of Ferroequinologists
• Griffin-Spalding Historical Society
• Gwinnett Historical Society
• Gordon County Historical Society
• Heard County Historical Society, Franklin, GA
• Historic Macon Foundation
• Historical Society of Forsyth County
• John Baytop Scott Chapter of the Daughters of 1812, Athens, GA
• Kansas City Posse of Westerners
• Kingston, GA
• Marietta Daughters of 1812
• Newnan-Coweta Historical Society
• Newton County Historical Society
• Newtown Square Historical Society (PA)
• Old Campbell County Historical Society, Fairburn, GA
• Orangeburgh, SC German-Swiss Geneological Society
• Pickens County Historical Society, Jasper, GA
• Robert Forsyth Chapter of SAR (Cumming, Ga.)
• Rockdale County Historical Society
• Roswell Historical Society
• Savannah River Valley Genealogical Society
• Walker County Historical Society 
• Wiregrass Genealogy Society, Eastman, GA

Museums/Battlefields

• Bartow History Museum
• Constitution Hall, Lecompton, KS
• Holiday, Dorsey, Fife House, Fayetteville, GA
• Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield
• Southeastern Railway Museum
• Southern Museum
• Watkins Museum, Lawrence, KS

Rounds Tables

• Atlanta World War II Roundtable
• Civil War Roundtable of Cobb County
• Civil War Round Table of Kansas City
• Dalton Civil War Roundtable
• Northeastern Georgia Civil War Roundtable
• Susquehanna Civil War Roundtable (Sunbury, PA)
• Washington Georgia Civil War Round Table
• Western North Carolina Civil War Round Table

Civic Groups

• Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Valley of Atlanta
• Arms Collectors of Georgia, Sandy Springs, GA
• Darwin Family Reunion dinner
• Central Georgia Genealogical Society (Warner Robbins)
• Daughters of the American Colonists, Macon
• East Cobb Civitan Club
• East Cobb Kiwanis Club
• Fayette Senior Services in Peachtree City, GA
• Friends And Neighbors, Cobb Senior Center
• Georgia Colony of the National Society of New England Women
• Kennworth Kiwanis Club
• Piedmont Division of the National Model Railroad Association
• Rotary Club of Vinings
• Save Acworth History Foundation
• Smyrna Rotary Club

Schools

• Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
• Due West Elementary School
• Living Science Home Study Center, Woodstock, GA
• North Cobb High School
• TLE Academy

Libraries

• Chickamauga Public Library
• Northwest Georgia Regional Library

Churches

• Fairview (Knoxville) UMC Distant Learning Program
• First United Methodist Church of Marietta Men's group
• Hope Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis, IN
• Mars Hill Presbyterian Church
• Rock Presbyterian Church, Columbus, Georgia

Events and Tours

• Civil War Comes Alive event in Cartersville (every year of the Sesquecentennial)
• Civil War Comes to Kingston
• Civil War Christmas (Southern Museum)
• Cowan, TN Tullahoma Campaign Sesquicentennial Celebration
• Lecompton, Kansas Territorial Days
• NMRA Convention in Atlanta
• Peddler's Village, PA ("Let's Steep")
• Railroad Rendezvous (Southern Museum)
• SCV Division Reunion, Emporia, KS
• Southern Museum Descendents Party
• Steamfest (Savannah, GA, GA Railroad Museum))
• Tours of Atlanta/Grant Park
• Trains! Trains! Trains! (Southern Museum)