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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

EP205: The Investing Legend Giving Away ALL His Money and Smashing Saloons and Breaking Barriers

EP204: The Joys of An Ordinary Tree and The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

EP203: The Time When The ACLU and NRA Agreed, When the Game Show “Press Your Luck” Didn’t Require Much Luck, Growing Up Rural: Dangling Feet and When Shooting Weddings And Chasing Storms Collide

EP202: Letting Your Daughter Grow Up and The Hiding Place

EP201: The Small Town Theater Company Making a Big Difference and The Cloud-Juicing Entrepreneur Who Bottles Rainwater

EP200: The Titanic’s Last Hero and How I Came to Terms With My Navy Cross

EP199: Ohio Born, American Made and How a Fake Doctor Ran Carnival Sideshows and Saved Thousands of Infants and Changed Medical History

EP198: When Character Stands Tall, The Colorful & Comical Civil War General and She Quit Her Corporate Job To Make Artisan Keycaps

EP197: The Story Of Benjamin Franklin's Longest Lasting Persona and The “Ten Cent Beer Night” Riot

EP196: The Transatlantic Cable: A Thread Across the Ocean and I Retired At 50, And Was Bored....So I Served People

EP195: The Night 2 H-Bombs Fell on North Carolina and I Found Out I Was Adopted at 30

EP194: If I Could Talk With Anyone (Past or Present), It Would Be My Parents, From An African Foster Kid to An American Foster Dad and Colin Powell Eulogy

EP193: The National Disaster Photo Rescue Organization and Aaron Burr, The Opportunistic Patriot

EP192: The Husband and Wife Doctors Who Risked Their Careers to Prevent Alzheimer’s,

EP191: Battling An Eating Disorder As A Mother and Tom Morton Goes to Boot Camp

EP190: Finding Purpose in Life's Darkest Moments and When America Doubled In Size

EP189: What Happened When a Kid Sued Pepsi for a Harrier Jet?, Big Nose Kate, More than Doc Holliday's Woman and From # 1 Party School to Most Innovative College in America

EP188: The Best Worst Counterfeiter in American History, The Blessing of Rejection and 100 Women Creating Transformation In Their Own Backyard

EP187: Busy Mother Of Six Befriends Retired Cop and A Place at Groucho’s Table

EP186: An Ordinary Cloth With An Extraordinary Story, Route 66: The Most Famous Highway In The World, The German Immigrant Who Gave Us Banquet Beer and “The NOT So Wild, Wild West”