Our American Stories https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html How a 19-Year-Old Single Mother Built the Largest Female-Owned Trucking Company She Served Her Time. Her Record Still Wouldn’t Let Her Move On. How One Flying Fortress Accidentally Became the First to Bomb Berlin Before Jackie Robinson: The Unlikely Team That Fought Exclusion with Skill and Kindness The Story Behind FDR’s “Day of Infamy” Speech The Woman Behind Jack London: Charmian Kittredge London Are Professional Wrestlers Athletes? Mother’s Day Means More When You Don’t Know If You’ll See Her Again The Highest-Ranking Female Marine and First Female Annapolis Graduate to be Killed in Action The WWII Battlefield Story Hidden Behind a Diner Conversation Why Vietnam Veterans Trusted Randall Wallace With “We Were Soldiers” Honor and Loyalty: The Story of Japanese American Soldiers in WWII Weapons of WWII With Stephen Ambrose: Barbed Wire, Mines, Guns, and Artillery Weapons of WWII With Stephen Ambrose: Poison Gas and Transportation The Road Home for Sergeant First Class Michael Schlitz The Great Arsenal of Democracy: How America Went From Nothing…to Outproducing Every Nation in WWII How a Childhood Fascination With Paper Airplanes Became a World Record Career The Privileges of War? A Green Beret’s Story of American Service in Vietnam How a Tone-Deaf Lawyer Wrote America’s National Anthem The Story of a 5-Star Steakhouse CEO and Her NFL Linebacker Husband The Time FDR Tried to Change the Date of Thanksgiving Coke Was a Cure-All First. Then It Became a Global Obsession Michael Vick Was the NFL’s Biggest Star. Then He Lost Everything. “Precious Lord, Take My Hand” and the Tragedy Behind It SeaWorld’s Undercover Boss Who Showed That Love Works in Business Joshua Lionel Cowen and the Toy Trains That Defined American Childhood Impresario: The Life and Times of Ed Sullivan The South Vietnamese Pilot Who Stole A Plane To Save His Family Meeting the Mother of My Foster Child Changed My Life The Real Story of Prohibition: Carrie Nation and the Fight to Save Families Locks of Love: How One Mother Built a Hair Donation Nonprofit Moving to a Farm from the City Changed My Life The Rivalry That Saved the NBA and Changed Two Lives: Larry Bird and Magic Johnson Why a Restaurant Cook Became a Police Officer How a Capitalist and Some Communists Gave Us the Worst Car Ever Made: The Yugo The Mom Who Refused to Give Up on Her Mono Mono Twins The Surprising Story of the World’s First Billionaire: John D. Rockefeller Chief Red Cloud: The Only American Indian in History to Defeat the U.S. Army in a War What Happened When Buck O’Neil Missed the Hall of Fame by One Vote Hedy Lamarr: The 40s “Bombshell” Actress Behind GPS, WiFi, and Bluetooth Al Capone: The Man and the Era How One Hatmaker Shaped the Image of the American West Stephen Ambrose on D Day: Into the Fire at Normandy How a Group of Daring Bootleggers Created NASCAR The Most Important Churchill Speech You’ve Never Heard: His Christmas Address to Congress Weeks After Pearl Harbor How America Went from Dead Last in the Space Race to First on the Moon The Streets Were My Father When Americans Sent Their Kids Through the Mail The Constitution Was Designed For Conflict: The Story of America [Ep. 10] Home