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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

EP151: The Real Stories Behind Our Cherished Christmas Traditions

EP150: The Christmas Store, The Bigger the Bureaucracy, the Smaller the Customer and The Chicago-area Maintenance Man Who Wrote a Hallmark Christmas Movie

EP149: Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions (Pt. 14), No! No! No! Who the Hell Boos Santa Claus?! and Leland Klassen’s Christmas Comedy

EP148: The Story of my Grandfather and Jim Johnson's Christmas Tree Story

EP147: Roger Latham on Santa Claus, How "A Charlie Brown Christmas" Came to Be and Is Die Hard A Christmas Movie?

EP146: Revisiting Childhood Mysteries, The Shocking Story Behind the Diamond Engagement Ring and The Holiday Tradition That Started At A Gas Station

EP145: The History of Christmas Trees, The Accidental Santa and Why it Took One Man 7 Years to Get His Car Back

EP144: Danny Sacrificed Self For a Stranger, The Cattle King and Are Pro Wrestlers Athletes?

EP143: Selling Her "RedHead" Wine to Walmart and Rishi Sharma Interviewing WWII Veterans

EP142: Abigail Adams: Revolutionary Woman

EP141: A Most Valued Gift… FROM a Homeless Man, Indians, a Jew, and a Hotel Partnership, Her Career is a Tribute to Her Great Uncle, A D-Day Hero and Working with Dad Taught Big Lessons to a Little Boy

EP140: The Tale of the Locomotive "Texas" and The Reluctant Memoirist

EP139: Trapped Inside a Tube: The Iron Lung Story and H.P. Rama, The Accidental Hotelier

EP138: The Old Upright Piano, Joy Neal Kidney, I Paid My Own Child Support and The Story of St. Louie Louie: Have Pool Cue, Will Travel

EP137: The WWII Tragedy America Chose to Forget, I Lived Through The Depression And Didn’t Even Know It! and The 1st "Disneyland" on Lake Michigan's Shore, and The Man Behind It

EP136: Winston Churchill and the Iron Curtain and The Tone Deaf, Bad Poet Who Wrote The National Anthem

EP135: Magic Side Show Becomes Full-Time Job and How Piggly Wiggly Created the Modern Supermarket

EP134: Origin of Everyday Sayings, The Woman Introducing STEM Careers to Young Girls and Thomas Edison at Menlo Park

EP133: Tale of the Tapes: Engineer Guy Explains How VHS Beat Betamax, How The Pilsner Arrived, Survived and Thrived in America and John O’Neil On The First B-17 To Bomb Berlin

EP132: The Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions, From Fired High School Dropout... To Owning D.C.'s Best Taco Chain! and Why it Took One Man 7 Years to get his Car Back