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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

EP265: Emma McCormick Sails Away, Real-Life John Wayne and Rhett Butler and The Scout Never Called: Growing Up in Competitive Sports

EP264: Art Burton on Bass Reeves, the First Black Deputy U.S. Marshal West of the Mississippi River

EP263: Life Beyond My Wildest Dreams: Professional Dog Walker and One Black Troop's Trip to Buchenwald

EP262: Discovering Nearest, the Former Enslaved Person Who Taught Jack Daniel How to Make Whiskey and Dolphins Owner Stephen Ross Paying Tribute To “My Greatest Mentor”

EP261: An Aussie Discovers American Wings and Using Welding To Change Lives

EP260: Enrique the Penguin Who Wears Shoes, Don't Wear Slippers to a Job Interview and Iowa's Long-Lost NBA Team Who Beat the Celtics

EP259: Father Receives Daughter's Text during Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre, My Grandpa the Storyteller and

EP258: The Story of George Washington Carver and The House Built By Chewing Gum

EP257: The Team Behind Old Dominick Distillery and One Mother’s Escape From A Sudanese Death Sentence to America

EP256: In His Father's Shadow, From High School Dropout... To Owning D.C.'s Best Taco Chain! and Why Are Bananas So Cheap? (History Guy)

EP255: Our Home Became Tidier After Having Four Sons, Burrito Restaurant Offers Job To Burglar and The Wizard of Menlo Park

EP254: How American History Created the American Superhero

EP253: Reconciling Dad the Farmer and Dad the Veteran Pilot, How The Civil War Openly Became about Slavery and Why it Took One Man 7 Years to Get His Car Back

EP252: This Man Grows Pumpkins That Weigh a TON and Tom Morton Goes to Marine Boot Camp

EP251: Growing Up Rural: A Tale About Stinky Boots, The Bigger the Bureaucracy, the Smaller the Customer and The Tone Deaf, Bad Poet Who Wrote The National Anthem

EP250: The True Story of A Desert Storm “Top Gun” Pilot and St. Louie Louie: Have Pool Cue, Will Travel

EP249: The Story of My Grandfather, The Landscape Management Company Powered by Goats and I Found Out I Was Adopted at 30

EP248: Souping Up Her Subaru Started Her Career and WWI War Pigeon Receives Medal Of Bravery

EP247: Wilber and his Comical Friendship with an Empty Nester, South Carolina's Greatest Revolutionary Heroine and How a Grandson Helped His Grandmother Find Her Long Lost Daughter

EP246: An Ordinary Civil War Cloth With An Extraordinary Story, The Man Who Paints Murals For Our Veterans and How One Woman was Surprised By Her Own Hunger