Books by Robert C. Jones
Also available as a speaker
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)
Honoring Veterans
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
Slavery in the Southern United States
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
Honoring Veterans
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
Honoring Veterans
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
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
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:
"Protestantism: How Did We Get Where We Are Today?"
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