Our American Stories https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Home Easter with My Grandson: The Best Day Ever How Mars Inc. Quietly Took Over the Candy Industry (and Then Some) Where Did Native Americans Come From? The Untold Story of the First Peoples Mitch Hedberg: The Comic Once Called “The Next Jerry Seinfeld” Jay Van Andel and the Family Lessons Behind the Amway Founder’s Success The Storm That Swallowed 12 Modern Ships The College Boys Who Fought to Save the Union The Lone Ranger: The Origin of America’s Masked Hero The Unlikely Friendship Between a Man and the Officer Who Wrongly Arrested Him Winston Churchill on Education and What It Means For All of Us How a Recovering Addict Created the World’s Hottest Pepper The Teen CEO of the Candy that Cleans Your Teeth Weapons of WWII With Stephen Ambrose: Poison Gas and Transportation George Washington and the Day He Refused a Crown The Man In The Glass Coffin Paul Revere’s Ride: The Poem That Made a Legend The Only Car Ever Made To Honor God Jim Keyes: The CEO Who Grew Up Without Running Water How 7-Eleven Helped Immigrants Build the American Dream A Small-Town Iowa Fourth of July in 1907 How Blockbuster Nearly Beat Netflix and Changed Streaming Forever A Thread Across the Ocean: The Story of the Transatlantic Cable Calvin Coolidge: The Farm Boy Who Became America’s 30th President Did Lizzie Borden Get Away with Murder? The True Story Behind Fall River’s Unsolved Mystery David McCullough on the Life and Legacy of John Adams Chuck Colson’s (Watergate’s “Evil Genius”) Fall From the Center of Power into Prison… and HIs Redemption David McCullough on Why the Founding Fathers Were Not Like Us The Boston Marathon Did Not Want Women Running in 1967. Kathrine Switzer Ran Anyway America’s Last Bareknuckle Fighter Took On the Nation—And Won An Eden In The Wilderness: The Story of America [Ep. 2] The Story of America: Failed Experiments in Utopia [Ep. 3] The Story of America: The Shot Heard ’Round the World and Common Sense [Ep. 5] Declaring Our Independence: The Story of America [Ep. 6] Abigail Adams and Her 7-Year-Old Son John Quincy Witnessed First-hand The Battle of Bunker Hill: 100 Bible Verses That Made America The Union Colonel Who Treated Confederate POWs With Mercy John Cazale: The Greatest Actor You Don’t Know Ralph Cox: The Last Man Cut From the “Miracle on Ice” Team When Ben Franklin’s Son Took the Loyalist Side in the Revolution The True Story of How Curious George Escaped the Nazis Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter Joseph Warren: The Forgotten Patriot Who Fell at Bunker Hill The Woman Who Snuck Into George Washington’s Army Remembering Father and Son Whose Story Inspired the Hit Country Song “I Drive Your Truck” The Story of America: Our Declaration of Cultural Independence [Ep. 24] Fannie Farmer’s Revolutionary Role in Measuring Cups, Recipes, and Modern Home Cooking The Congressman Who Invented His Own Biography: John McCormack The Inventor of the Machine Gun Became Deaf—So His Son Invented the Silencer The Home Depot Worker Who Became Boston’s Lead Singer: Tommy DeCarlo The Black Medal of Honor Recipient Who Bombed His Own Hideout to Save Lives