Our American Stories

The Long Road to Independence

Pyromaniac's Paradise: Summer Adventures Running a Fireworks Tent

David McCullough: The Founding Fathers Were Not Like Us?

JFK’s 1962 Fourth of July Speech

Route 66: The Most Famous Highway In The World

Route 66 serves as a global symbol of American freedom and the quintessential road trip, despite technically ceasing to exist as an official highway in 1985. While never the nation’s oldest or most scenic route, it gained unparalleled cultural prominence through early publicity, literature like The Grapes of Wrath, and...

The War In Ben Franklin's Home

Bob Munden: “The Fastest Gun Who Ever Lived”

Blue Blood to Bring Home the Bacon: The Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions

Snowflake Bentley

A Precious Gift for a Widowed Husband

The Sidney Poitier Story

The Irish Immigrant Whose Life Was So Large, NYPD Shut Down the City for Him

Samuel Colt and the Birth of the Revolver

From Sexual Abuse to Salvation—and Redemption: The Story of Valerie Habeeb, Lee's Wife

Robert Todd Lincoln: In His Father’s Shadow (History Guy)

The Hiding Place: The Story of Corrie ten Boom

“Red Tape” and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions (Pt. 19)

James Madison: The Lawgiver

Love Your Neighbor… My Employees Are My Closest Neighbor (Horst Schulze and The Ritz-Carlton)

The Great Vowel Shift and the Making of Modern English (The History Guy)