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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

EP245: Bill Rhodes: A Memphis Boy's Road to Autozone and Charles Kemper: Chippewa Falls' 100-Year-Old Doctor

EP244: The Time When The ACLU and NRA Agreed, The Biggest Chicken In The World? and You Must Get To Know Your Community Before You Can Serve It

EP243: Getting to Know Your Angry Old Neighbor Takes Time and How a UCLA Undergrad in the 70s Saved the Marx Brothers

EP242: The Origin of Everyday Sayings, These Guys Use Dungeons and Dragons as a Therapy Tool and Walt Whitman Served the Union... And the Confederacy!

EP241: 911 At Ease International Saved This Police Officer’s Career and The World's First Action Figure Museum

EP240: The Silver Kings and the "Big Bonanza" and The Man Who Brought Couponing to the Digital Age

EP239: "I'll Fly Away" Composer Honored by Daughters and The Cuban Refugee Who Created the Coors Light Silver Bullet Can

EP238: Sunk at Pearl Harbor: The USS Utah and Oklahoma and The Story of King George III

EP237: Engineer Guy Explains How VHS Beat Betamax, The Disastrous Great Lakes Storm of 1913 and The Neon Museum

EP236: The Titanic’s Last Hero and How I Came to Terms With My Navy Cross

EP235: The Union Loss That Saved Washington, D.C. and A Downed, Vietnam War Fighter Pilot Teaches His Son Gratitude

EP234: The Disastrous 1904 Olympic Marathon, Learning Not To Judge and The Comfort of Canine Companionship and The Cloud-Juicing Entrepreneur Who Bottles Rainwater

EP233: A Tuskegee Airman's Story of Heroism and Service and When 3 Months of Retirement is Enough

EP232: How Faith, Infidelity, and Forgiveness Grew a Family Not Once, but Twice, Dangling Feet and Learning Responsibility and a Pearl Harbor Veteran Shares His Survival Story

EP231: The Union Loss That Saved Washington, D.C. and The Forgotten Grave

EP230: Receiving Wylie, Karla Duerson and The Dignity of the Individual Human Being

EP229: A Father’s Note to His “Timeless” Daughter, The Craddock Brothers Build On Their Father's Foundation and Edison at Menlo Park, with Kathleen Carlucci and Russ Gehrum

EP228: Why The American Flag Means So Much To My Family and "We Didn't Want to Lose Two People"

EP227: The “Why” Behind What We Do Matters, I Wrote a Book About My Dad... and It Brought Us Closer Together and Puppets Are For Everyone

EP226: A Tuskegee Airman's Story of Heroism and Service and A Sister's Love and Loss of Three Brothers