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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

EP93: The Titanic’s Last Hero, Peace for the Warrior: Life Moves Yoga and Lessons From Gizmo the Dog

EP92: The Great Vowel Shift and the Making of Modern English and Superman Versus the Ku Klux Klan

EP91: Bankrupt and Dying from Cancer, "I Felt Guilty About Being Successful, Until..." and The Fateful Night During WWII Cecil Wax Met God

EP90: A Medal of Honor Recipient Through The Eyes of His Father and He Travels the Country Reviewing... Onion Rings?

EP89: The History of Pinball, The Day a Soviet Nuclear Attack Submarine Rammed an American Aircraft Carrier and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

EP88: A Presidential Sized Comeback: The Story of Ulysses S. Grant and Co-Founder of The Ritz Carlton

EP87: A Light in the Sky, From Exploitation to Exultation: Escaping the Sex Industry and Why Led Zepplin Pays Royalties to a Southern Bluesman

EP86: The Unlikely Pair Who Share A Liver and The Legendary Man Known as "Babe"

EP85: Abraham Lincoln: Our First "Wired" President, The Man Who Paints Rocks For Our Veterans and The Child Inventor Determined to Save Babies from Overheated Cars

EP84: A Woman's Self-Made Journey from Motown to Small Town and The 1946 Battle of Alcatraz

EP83: A Museum Full of Umbrella Covers, Dungeons and Dragons as a Therapy Tool and How a Fake Doctor Ran Carnival Sideshows and Saved Thousands of Infants and Changed Medical History

EP82: The Time When The ACLU and NRA Agreed, When “Press Your Luck” Didn’t Require Much Luck and The Story of Charleston: The Way Life Used to Be, And Perhaps, Is Supposed to Be

EP81: How My Dad's Cancer Saved Our Relationship, Rediscovering What I Lost in the Military and A Boy Waits for His POW Father

EP80: The Bad Employee Who Defined Her Whole Bank, How The Elevator BRAKE Shaped Our Modern World, Down Cemetery Row and No. 18: LSU's Men of Character

EP79: When Character Stands Tall, The Civil War General and Repaying Old Debts

EP78: The Man Who Hung Out With Astronauts and The Artisan Keycap Maker

EP77: Weifield Group Hires “At Risk” Individuals and with Good Reason, Kindness is Free and The Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions, from Bite the Bullet to Bless You

EP76: Souping Up Her Subaru Started Her Career and Iowa's Long-Lost NBA Team Who Beat the Celtics

EP75: The Most Decorated War Dog of WWI, The Palmer Raids and Standing Proudly On Deformed Feet

EP74: The WWII Veteran Who Was Imprisoned In Japan