NPR’s Don Gonyea speaks with Andrew Iden, executive producer of Marked!: The Podcast. The series explores Georgia’s role in the American Revolution by listening to the stories recorded on the state’s roughly 2,000 roadside historical markers.
Iden and Gonyea discuss how those markers—small signs placed across towns, roadsides and battle sites—collectively trace local events, personalities and contested memories from the revolutionary period. By following markers across the state, the podcast pieces together a distinct Georgia perspective on the era.
The conversation highlights how place-based markers preserve and interpret history, surface surprising or overlooked episodes, and shape how communities remember the Revolution. Marked! uses these roadside texts as a way to tell a more textured, local story of Georgia during America’s founding moment.