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Our American Stories

Our American Stories tells stories that aren’t being told. Positive stories about generosity and courage, resilience and redemption, faith and love. Stories about the past and present. And stories about ordinary Americans who do extraordinary things each and every day. Stories from our listeners about their lives. And their history. In that pursuit, we hope we’ll be a place where listeners can refresh their spirit, and be inspired by our stories.

Our American Stories

Episodes

Shot Down: A B-17 Pilot's Survival Behind Enemy Lines

The Angel of the Battlefield: Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross

Reuniting With My POW Father After Thinking He Was Dead For 3 Years

He Gave Out Pizza From Second Story Apartment and Raised Over $30,000

Valley Forge: The 6-Months That Turned Chaos into the Key to America's Independence

I Was There For The Birth of Nike... With Steve Prefontaine

The Great Emancipators: How The Civil War Openly Became about Slavery

The Titanic Reenactor Who Actually Dove The Wreck and The Woman Who Was Mayor, Garbage Woman, Liquor Store Owner, Teacher, AND Member of the WAC

The Green Beret Medic Gary Beikirch Who Had to Come to Terms with Himself

Lesson Learned: Clean Hog Manure Off Your Boots Before Going to School, He Didn't Know Where He Came From Until His 40s and The Story of Las Vegas Through Neon Signs

The Last of the Tuskegee Airman's Story of Heroism and Service and The Fateful Night During WWII That Cecil Wax Met God

The Woman Who Holds 13 World Records for Running... And with a Prosthetic Leg and "I Was Fired Twice and Decided I Was Unemployable for Life"

The 6 Littleton Brothers: A Civil War Story of Bravery and Loss and He Found Out in His Teens that His Grandfather Was One of the 3 Stooges

Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny, Uncle Bud's Last Days and The Man Who Milks Snakes for a Living

The USS Lexington, The Naval Juggernaut, The Shocking Story Behind the Diamond Engagement Ring and How Piggly Wiggly Created the Modern Supermarket

The Unlikely Pair Who Share A Liver and Homestead Laws Saving Women From Homelessness

Hillsdale College Students' Roles in Preserving the Union

Robert Todd Lincoln: In His Father's Shadow and Roane and Eva Hunter: A Story of Love Lost, Then Rediscovered

The Glorious 25th of November, Evacuation Day and A Father Wanted A Clean Hotel For His Family ... So He Created Holiday Inn

Ilene Hall Joined the Army to Search for Her Husband During WWII and The 1st "Disneyland" on Lake Michigan's Shore, and The Man Behind It