Our American Stories https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Home Dolly Parton’s Biggest Hit Almost Belonged to Elvis Robin Cook: The American Physician Who Wrote “Coma” Underwater How the Triple Crown Brought a Father and Son Together Again 2x Oscar Nominee Volunteers for WWII at 37: The Story of Robert Montgomery The Brooklyn Bridge and the Family That Built It Why Chick-fil-A Says “My Pleasure” Legendary Founder of The Ritz Carlton: My Employees Are My Closest Neighbor How Vanderbilt Rose From Poverty to Become the Richest Man in History Bat Masterson: The Lawman, Gambler, and Gunfighter Who Redefined the Wild West The Irish Forced Across the Atlantic The Sweet and Surprising History of PEZ Candy Five Floors Up: The Heroic Family Story of Four Generations in the FDNY Before Yellowstone: The Real Story of Richard King and the King Ranch A Story of Excellence: Horst Schulze and The Founding of The Ritz-Carlton After Penn Station Fell, Jackie Kennedy Fought to Save Grand Central The Story of the Real—and Mostly Unknown—Author of the U.S. Constitution, Gouverneur Morris The Story of the Russian Immigrant Who Created America’s Most Beloved Music—Irving Berlin How RMS Titanic Became the First Real-Time Maritime Disaster The Real Chef Boyardee: The Immigrant Who Fed America How One Gross Invention Added Decades to Human Life Inside the Mind of a Brain Surgeon Inside Fantasy Football: America’s Favorite Non-Contact Sport The Story of Alexander Hamilton Richard Gatling and the Gun Meant to End All Wars How Rod Serling Changed TV with The Twilight Zone How Carole King and Gerry Goffin Wrote “A Natural Woman” for Aretha Franklin The Story of Jell-O: How America’s Favorite Dessert Was Born Why Victorian Women Fainted So Often: What Science Says Now How a Simple Jam Session Became Rock’s Greatest Supergroup Earthrise: The Most Famous Photo of Earth Balloons Over Broadway: The American Visionary Who Created the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloons Ulysses S. Grant’s Final Battle: How His Memoirs (and Mark Twain) Saved His Family Why “Once in a Lifetime” Is One of the Greatest Songs Ever Written General Daniel Sickles and the Birth of the Insanity Defense Why Led Zeppelin Pays Royalties to a Southern Bluesman A Listener Recounts Spotting Satellites In The Sky With His Father in The Mountains of New Mexico Was Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Japan Necessary to End World War II? Clarence Birdseye: The Arctic Adventurer Who Invented Frozen Food The Stories Behind Our Easter Traditions The South Vietnamese Pilot Who Stole A Plane To Save His Family The Redemptive True Story of a Cocaine Drug Lord The 17-Year-Old Who Built Jersey Mike’s The Real Saint Patrick Behind St. Patrick’s Day Midnight at the Live Fire Exercise How One Man’s Faith Moved Him to Fight for A Wrongly Imprisoned Man The Story of Justice Scalia: From His Immigrant Roots to the Highest Court in the Land How a Log Cabin Helped Spark the Great Awakening in Early America The Story of One of West Point’s Greatest Graduation Speeches—to Graduating Jewish Cadets in 2023 Why Memorial Day Matters: The Uncle Lee Habeeb Never Knew, Killed in WWII