Our American Stories https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html How the Beastie Boys Took Hip-Hop From New York to the Nation Home 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 How an Ex-Slave and His Abolitionist Sidekick Rescued Slaves, Taunted Slavers, and Gave the “Underground Railroad” Its Name The Black Medal of Honor Recipient Who Bombed His Own Hideout to Save Lives The Thanksgiving Story You Never Learned in School Why Benjamin Franklin Printed the Sermons of a Man He Didn’t Believe Babe Ruth’s Final Years in the Major Leagues How Edgar Allan Poe Gave Us Horror, Mystery, and Science Fiction America’s First Great Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase of Lincoln’s Killer Abraham Lincoln’s Last Happy Days Before the Assassination The 1st Air Force Pilot at Ground Zero—and the Last to Know What Happened Colin Powell: The Man Behind the General, the Diplomat, and the Leader How the Bald Eagle Became America’s National Symbol The Woman Behind the World’s Only Umbrella Cover Museum The Marine Who Taught Me How to Fight… and the Man Who Taught Me How to Live The Story of America: How Thomas Jefferson Doubled the United States in 1803 [Ep. 18] Louis Armstrong Changed American Music Forever America’s “Everyman”: The Character of Thomas Jefferson Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II Andrew Jackson’s Rise From Dirt-Poor Orphan to American Powerhouse A 14-Year-Old Historian Brings the First Day of the American Revolution to Life Colin Powell Through the Eyes of His Son, Michael The Untold Faith Story of Abolitionist Harriet Tubman An Appeal to Heaven: The Forgotten Flag of George Washington’s Navy Was Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Japan Necessary to End World War II?