This page provides a collection of videos, podcasts, and any other media from historian and battlefield preservationist, Durant Ashmore. As more items are collected, they will be added to the page…stay tuned, and stop back often for updates. Special thank you to Matthew Hall for helping to curate this page!
Be sure to visit the other Durant Ashmore collections, the Map Collection, and the Essay Collection.
List of Videos, click to jump, or scroll to browse.
Hollingsworth Mill
Interview
What I’ve Learned About the AmericanRevolution
Lindley’s Fort
About James Lindley
Battle of Rutledge Ford
Video courtesy of Matthew Hall, used with permission
January 25, 2025
Matthew has a YouTube Channel here, with more videos of Durant out in the wild.
Battle of the Waxhaws/Buford’s Massacre
January 25, 2025
Revolutionary War in Laurens County
Historyman Podcast January 25, 2024
Laurens County – The Cherokee Concern
Historyman presents Durant Ashmore as he retells the stories from Laurens, South Carolina, where American Independence was fought and bled for. Laurens County, SC was situated on the border with the Cherokee lands in the 1770s and was a contentious area during the American Revolutionary War.
https://historymanpodcast.com/podcast-laurens-county-with-durant-ashmore-the-cherokee-concern/
March 4, 2024
How the Carolina Backcountry Won the American Revolution
Part 1 – May 2, 2023
Part 2 – May 23, 2023
Cherokee Agricultural Practices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPXDQAOhmkM
February 20, 2024 – Courtesy of the Laurens County Museum
Revolutionary War in the Backcountry
Pickens County Library 3-Part Series
Prelude to War – Part 1 – February 10, 2023
The American Period – Part 2 – March 16, 2023
Charleston to Kings Mountain – May 2, 2023
An Evening With Isaac Shelby
February 21, 2023 – Gaffney Visitor Center and Art Gallery
Get to Know Marion
February 2023 – The American Heritage Festival
Exploring Hammond’s Old Store and Hayes Station
December 18, 2023
Hayes Station
August 16, 2022
Backcountry Revolutionary War History Collection
There are six lectures in total posted at this YouTube channel. These are all from the Laurens County Museum. Linked individually below:
Prelude to war in the Back Country of South Carolina
June 25, 2019
The Cherokee War of 1776
July 30, 2019
Andrew Pickens, The Fighting Elder
August 16, 2019
The British Period
August 27, 2019
Prelude to War, The Colonial Era in South Carolina
January 21, 2020
War in the Backcountry Begins, 1st siege of Ninety Six, Battle of the Great Canebrake, Snow Campaign
February 18, 2020
Fort Lindley Artifact Presentation
September 28, 2019
Life and Times of Robert Anderson
September 7, 2019
Fort Lindley
Part 1 May 11, 2019
Part 2 – May 15, 2019