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's 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

​Biographies

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

Grand Army of the Republic

Hatteras Inlet

Ku Klux Klan: 1866/1871

Lincoln Assassination Overview

The Conspirators

The Assassination

The Search for John Wilkes Booth

Trial and Sentencing

Conspiracy Theories

Lost Gold of the Confederacy

The Lost Cause

The Military Occupation of the South

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

Reconstruction overview

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 Georgia and South Carolina: The Battles

The Revolutionary War in Pennsylvania

The Revolutionary War in New Jersey

Revolutionary War Timeline

Heroines of the Revolutionary War (Tier A)

Heroines of the Revolutionary War (Tier B)

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 W

omen 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)

Space Program

Apollo 11 lands man on the Moon

Apollo 13 - "Houston, we have a problem"

Werner von Braun

Neil Armstrong

Rocket Development in the 20th Century

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

Colonial Witchcraft: The Road to the Salem Witch Trials

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 Witchcraft in Colonial America

Yazoo Land Fraud (Georgia)

Colonial Methodists & Shakers

Colonial Music (pre-1700)

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

Increase Mather

William Phips

William Stoughton

Railroads

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

Pandemics and Plagues

Black Death

Tuberculosis

Cholera

Typhus

AIDS

Ebola

Smallpox

1918 Flu Pandemic Overview

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

The Day the United States Invaded the Soviet Union

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

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

Could Hitler's "wonder weapons" have won the war?

V-2 rockets

Enigma and the first computer

Office of Strategic Services

Music of the World War I and II Era

1943: The Pendulum Swings

Japanese Relocation Camps

Hitler's Wonder Weapons

Biographies:

Robert Oppenheimer

Enrico Fermi

Alan Turing

Werner von Braun

Albert Einstein

Robert H. Goddard

Edward Teller

Werner Heisenberg

Wild Bill Donovan

George Marshall

George S. Patton

Douglas MacArthur

Anne Frank

Lyudmilla Pavlichenko

Leni Riefenstahl and Hanna Reitsch

Eleanor Roosevelt 

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

The Old West and Ghost Towns

Allan Pinkerton

Ancient Indian Pueblos of New Mexico

Billy the Kid

Comstock Lode

Doc Holliday

Famous Women of the Old West

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

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 Colonial Music (pre-1700)

The Early Bob Dylan

The Legacy of Hank Williams

Origins of Country Music (Carter Family, Jimmy Rodgers)

Influential Women

Influential Women of the 20th Century

Influential Women of the 19th Century

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

Pioneering Female Aviators: Amelia Earhart & Hanna Reitsch

Influential Women of Alabama

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

Actresses of the Silent Age

Women Criminals Through the Ages

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

Entertainment and Society

Is Paul Dead? - The Great Beatles Hoax

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 

Influential Women of Alabama

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

Influential Women of Kansas History

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 in the Revolutionary War: The Battles

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) T

he 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