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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

EP185: The Careful Art of Caring for Your Horse, Suing To Sell Soup and A Divorced Father Living with His Marine Son

EP184: Responsibility and Respect Run in the Rakeman Family and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

EP183: The Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions (Pt. 17) and America's Last King: The Story of King George III

EP182: Hollywood Goes To War and Miles C. Collier on Material Culture

EP181: Holy Rollers: The True Story of Card Counting Christians

EP180: "I Will Remember for The Both of Us" and All-American, Chinese Cowboy

EP179: The Littleton Brothers, A Civil War story and A Tattoo Shop with Heart

EP178: One Firefighter's Story of Courage, Darkness, and the Relentless Love That Saved Him

EP177: Memories of Our Father, The First Black Lawman in Colorado and Family is at the Heart of this Brewing Icon

EP176: The Curious Origins of Everyday Sayings, The Museum Dedicated to Bad Art, Why Money Isn't Enough to Be a Success and It's Never Too Late to Learn to Ride a Horse

EP175: "PEZ: From Austrian Invention To American Icon" and Rattlesnakes and Vinegar: A Journey to the General Store

EP174: Crocodiles and Cannibals, The Religious Magna Carta of the New World and The Man Who Played with Trains

EP173: Ships of WWII: The USS Utah and USS Oklahoma, Wandering Worker: The American Hobo and When 3 Months of Retirement is Enough

EP172: Zero Victim Black Americans: MLK & Booker T. Washington, The History of the "Wrecker" Tow Truck and Whiskey Distillery Goes from Serving Drinks to Serving Community

EP171: How To Properly Brag About the World's Fastest Plane and Losing My Mentor, Finding Peace

EP170: Taking The Time To Talk To Strangers, Snowflake Bentley, First Photograph of a Snowflake and The Government Wouldn't Let Paula Smith Sell Her House For Over A Decade

EP169: Triumph and Disaster: The Life of Rudyard Kipling, and Enhancing Lives, One Guide Dog at a Time

EP168: From Bagatelle to Video Games: The History of Pinball, These Guys Use Dungeons and Dragons as a Therapy Tool and Ethics: Bill Daniels and the Utah Stars

EP167: How Faith, Infidelity, and Forgiveness Grew a Family Not Once, but Twice and Remote Alaskan Town's One Connection To The World

EP166: MIT's Basketball Coach: "Those Nerds Can Only Handle One Play" and The Man Who Wrote 'I'll Fly Away'