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Our American Stories — 1000 episodes
Bat 21 Bravo: The Most Daring Rescue of the Vietnam War
The Fatal Car Wreck That Changed a Deputy Forever
The Storm That Swallowed 12 Modern Ships
The Story of Black Sam Bellamy, the Richest Pirate in History
Inside the Mind of a Brain Surgeon
How 100 Women Turned $1,000 Checks Into a Worldwide Giving Movement
Airplane vs. Airship: The 1926 Race to the North Pole
Honor and Loyalty: The Story of Japanese American Soldiers in WWII
What a Cemetery Taught Me About Being an American
William Boeing: The Timber Millionaire Who Gave America Wings
The Knights of the Golden Circle: America's Would-Be Slave Empire Builders?
How Kenny Rogers Found His Voice at 40
How MIT Basketball Shaped Bill Koch’s View of Leadership
1941: The Year America Entered World War II
William Walker: The American Adventurer Who Conquered Nicaragua
The German Immigrant Who Built Coors Brewing
How America Lost 4 Billion Chestnut Trees
How a Room Full of Divided Delegates Found Unity in a Single Prayer
John Cazale: The Greatest Actor You Don't Know
How Carole King and Gerry Goffin Wrote "A Natural Woman" for Aretha Franklin
The Six Percent: The Woman Who Worked With the Enemy to Save Lives
Clarence Birdseye: The Arctic Adventurer Who Invented Frozen Food
Ralph Cox: The Last Man Cut From the "Miracle on Ice" Team
America's First Animal Celebrities: Railroad Dogs
How a Farm Boy Invented Television
The Native American Chief Who Stood with George Washington
Are Pro Wrestlers Really Athletes?
How America's First Female Detective Saved Abraham Lincoln
John Brown: The Radical Abolitionist Who Launched a Holy War Against Slavery
James Madison: The Lawgiver Who Gave Us the Constitution
How Catholics Gave Us the McDonald's Filet-O-Fish
Elijah and the Jewish Roots of American Liberty
How One Man Made a Million Dollars Selling Pet Rocks
How a Recovering Addict Created the World's Hottest Pepper
America's 150-Year Quest to Get Greenland
She Criticized Her Local Government. Then They Came After Her Farm
The Incredible Story of Harvey Wallbanger, the Racing Buffalo
Texas Wanted Him to Spend 750 Hours Learning the Wrong Job
My Dad Died Saving a Stranger, but He Never Stopped Saving Lives
Calvin Coolidge: The Farm Boy Who Became America's 30th President
The Hidden Work Behind Every Horse
How One Small-Town Woman Lived Nine Lives
Was Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Japan Necessary to End World War II?
Dick Bong: America’s Greatest Fighter Pilot
David McCullough: The Constitution Was Written by Serious People
Why a Billionaire Founder Encouraged Office Pranks
How the Beastie Boys Took Hip-Hop From New York to the Nation
How Yogi Berra Became an American Original
The Marine Who Taught Me How to Fight... and the Man Who Taught Me How to Live
"Take the Cake" & "The Third Degree" and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions (Pt. 22)
How Elvis Reinvented Las Vegas
White Feather: The Original American Sniper
What Exactly Is Bubblegum Flavor — and Why Pink?
“Black Harry” Hoosier: The Story Behind Indiana’s Namesake
Louis Zamperini's Story—in His Own Words
George Washington and the Day He Refused a Crown
The Inventor of the Machine Gun Became Deaf—So His Son Invented the Silencer
A Good Name Is the Greatest Inheritance
I Once Killed for Money. Then I Couldn't Bear to Hurt a Grasshopper
“Put a Sock in It” and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions (Pt. 18)
How the Memoir I Never Wanted to Write Changed My Life
A Wrestling Match Made Abraham Lincoln a Frontier Legend?
Everything I Needed to Know About Work, I Learned Selling Hot Dogs at Twins Games
What a Motorcycle Crash Taught Me About Risk, Faith, and Letting Go
How Church Prepared Pat Boone to Become a Pop Superstar
The Story of America: The Crisis That Gave Rise to Abraham Lincoln [Ep. 27]
The Congressman Who Invented His Own Biography: John McCormack
My Superman Never Wore a Cape. He Flew in WWII.
Before Thanksgiving, New Yorkers Celebrated Evacuation Day
How I Almost Became a Made Man in the Real Sopranos Mob
How a $40,000 Land Rover Changed American Law Forever
The Arkansas Nuclear Mishap That Launched CNN's First Big Story
She Hid an Alcohol Addiction Behind a Successful Life
Davy Crockett Died at the Alamo, But the Story of How He Lived Remains
The Man Behind Bugs Bunny: The Story of Mel Blanc
Before He Was Rosco P. Coltrane: The Remarkable Life of James Best
The Only Catholic to Sign the Declaration of Independence: Charles Carroll
The Confederate Hunley and the First Submarine Attack in Naval History
Why a Slave Trader Wrote 'Amazing Grace: The Story of John Newton
The Real Soldiers Behind Hawkeye's M*A*S*H Dog Tags
The Slave Trader Abraham Lincoln Refused to Pardon
Inside the LAPD's Original Gangster Squad
She Traded an Apartment for a Sailboat
Mary Kay: The Woman Behind the Pink Cadillac Empire
How One Flying Fortress Accidentally Became the First to Bomb Berlin
The Real Chef Boyardee: The Immigrant Who Fed America
The Spy Ship North Korea Won't Give Back: USS Pueblo
George Mitchell and the 17-Year Gamble That Changed America Forever
Nan Aspinwall: The First Woman to Ride Across America Alone
What The Giving Tree Taught Me About Motherhood
The Runaway Mother Who Helped End the Fugitive Slave Act
The Story of America: Manifest Destiny [Ep. 26]
Abraham Lincoln's Final Journey Home
The 6 Percent: Moses Beckelman's Daring Mission
Why Mr. T Called Himself "Mr."
When Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins Sang Gospel Together
What a Baby Eagle Taught Me About Letting My Children Go
How Cornelius Vanderbilt Helped Cause (and Calm) the Panic of 1869
The General Who Told Hitler "Nuts!"
Why Wayne Gretzky Is Still the Greatest Hockey Player of All Time
The Revolutionary Idea Behind America's Independence
How America Went from Dead Last in the Space Race to First on the Moon
More Americans Died on This British Prison Ship Than in Battle
The Small-Town Lessons That Built a World Series Champion
The Rivalry That Saved the NBA and Changed Two Lives: Larry Bird and Magic Johnson
The Only Photographer Inside the Manhattan Project
The Estate Sale That Solved the Mystery of Alan Shepard's Moon Golf Balls
Why Victorian Women Fainted So Often: What Science Says Now
Possum for Supper and Other Memories from the Great Depression
Abraham Lincoln's Most Dangerous Journey
The Irish Forced Across the Atlantic
King David and the Jewish Roots of America's Founding
How a Gravedigger Became a Hero: King Solomon and the 1833 Cholera Epidemic
The Redemptive True Story of a Cocaine Drug Lord
Recovery Began When I Stopped Doing It Alone
Bernard Irwin: America's First Medal of Honor Hero
How a 2.4-Mile Ocean Swim Changed My Life
The Only Car Ever Made to Honor God
Billy The Kid: The Story Behind the Legend and the Myth
Remembering Erika, the Teacher Who Brought the Cold War to Life
The Teenage Girl Turned Patriot Spy Who Fought Redcoat Raiders: Dicey Langston
How Crayola Crayons Came to Be: The True Story Behind America’s Most Colorful Creation
The Day I Told My Gang I Was Leaving to Join the Marines
My Grandmother Crossed the Border Illegally. I Became a Border Patrol Agent.
Bill Daniels Didn't Have to Repay His Debts. He Did Anyway.
How Willis Carrier Changed the Way Americans Live
The Most Valuable Gift I Ever Received Came From a Homeless Man
He Was Told He'd Never Walk Again. Then He Went Back to Vietnam.
My Depression-Era Dad Would Do Anything to Save a Dollar
The Man Who Paints Rocks to Honor Veterans: The Story Behind the Freedom Rocks
How One CEO Beat Workaholism and Saved His Marriage
Steve Prefontaine, Phil Knight, and the Birth of Nike
The Story of America: When the South Became the South [Ep. 25]
The Real Winnie the Pooh: A.A. Milne’s Story Behind the Bear
The Needle That Changed Grandma's Hand Forever
Mary Surratt: The Woman at the Center of the Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy
She Failed Third Grade Twice. Then Everything Changed.
Harvard's Christian Origins: 100 Bible Verses That Made America
The Man Who Built the World’s First Action Figure Museum
John Marshall: The Farmer’s Son Who Became America’s Greatest Chief Justice
The Kindest Tattoo Shop in America
The Christian Who Integrated Baseball: Branch Rickey
Why Vietnam Veterans Trusted Randall Wallace With We Were Soldiers
President Reagan's Greatest Speech You've Never Heard: His July 4 Speech in NY Harbor
Why the Declaration of Independence We Display Isn’t the Original
George Washington’s Letter That Defined Religious Freedom in America
How the Bald Eagle Became America's National Symbol
What Calvin Coolidge Said About the True Meaning of Independence
The Founding Choice That Defined America: Washington’s Refusal to Be King
The Day Rick Monday Made One of Baseball’s Most Patriotic Plays
David McCullough on Why the Founding Fathers Were Not Like Us
The 17-Year-Old Who Built Jersey Mike's
How a Tone-Deaf Lawyer Wrote America’s National Anthem
The 6 Percent: Running on Thin Ice Against Hitler
The College Boys Who Fought to Save the Union
Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and the Story Behind America’s Most Famous Speech
George Washington's War Tent: America's First Oval Office
The Ferris Wheel: America's Answer to the Eiffel Tower
The Story Behind the Internet's Most Famous Bridge Description:
David McCullough on 1776: The Year America Was Born
Satchel Paige: The Pitcher Who Changed Baseball Forever
The Story of America: Theodore Roosevelt, the Bull Moose, and the Election of 1912 [Ep. 42]
Why Talking to Strangers Still Matters
Audie Murphy: The Most Decorated American Soldier of World War II
Steve Jobs and the iPhone That Almost Wasn't
I Was Stiffed $318,000... And Still Paid Back Everyone I Owed
How the Saddle Turned Horses Into the Engines of Civilization
Who Invented the Barcode and How It Changed the World
Joplin’s EF-5 Tornado: A Story of Loss, Love, and Hope
The Night I Saved a Man With a Knife
Why Duke’s Coach K Was Almost Fired in 1983
The Real Story of Prohibition: Carrie Nation and the Fight to Save Families
The Flood That Took My Mother
The Death Sentence That Became One of Lincoln’s Most Famous Pardons
How a Group of Daring Bootleggers Created NASCAR
234 Marines Against 10,000 Chinese Soldiers: Fox Company’s Fight for Survival
Why I Traded My Firebird for a Sailboat
The College Student Who Became Groucho Marx's Assistant
Ida B. Wells: Fighter for the Civil Rights of African Americans to Own Arms
The Bible: The World's Best-Selling Book
Buried as a Mystery, Remembered by Name: The Story of Michael Blassie
What Really Happened During the Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876
How Oskar Schindler Risked Everything to Save Lives in WWII
The Story of America: Our Declaration of Cultural Independence [Ep. 24]
The Teenage Spy Who Arrested His Nazi Boss
Dolly Parton's Biggest Hit Almost Belonged to Elvis
The Iowa Governor Who Saved Thousands of Refugees
Just Days Before His Death, Pistol Pete Told His Story
The Most (Un)Epic Love Story Ever
When Americans Sent Their Kids Through the Mail
Why Henry Gunther Was the Final Casualty of WWI
An Appeal to Heaven: The Forgotten Flag of George Washington’s Navy
Robert Heft Got a B-Minus for Designing the U.S. Flag
Valley Forge: George Washington’s Winter of Resolve
From Hang Time to Primetime: How the NBA Conquered America
How Panama’s Dictator Manuel Noriega Found God in the Unlikeliest Place
John Deere and the Invention That Changed the Heartland
The Day I Realized I Might Have Alzheimer's
Churchill: The Making of a Reluctant Hero
How I Survived 14 Years of Communist Brainwashing
How the Plow, Barbed Wire, and Google Changed the World
The Day Oklahoma City Came to New York
"True Colors" & "Soap Opera" and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday
Who Was Uncle Sam? The Surprising Origins of America's Icon
WWII Airman’s Body Moved Three Times Before His Family Found Peace
Frank Capra: The American Dream Personified
What Amelia Earhart's Coat Reveals About the Woman Behind the Legend
A Journey Up the River With Dad
How Henry Ford Created the Modern World
What My Father Taught Me on the Job Site
Uncle Nearest: The Former Slave Who Taught Jack Daniel How to Make Whiskey
How Patrick Henry Saved America from Its First Civil War
Brian Wilson: My Friend Behind the Beach Boys
The Summer I Got Fired From an Ice Cream Shop
The Story of America: The Frenchman Who Wrote About America Better Than Any American [Ep. 23]
How Two Civil Rights Lawyers Ended Red-Light Camera Tickets
How the Wright Brothers Beat the World to the Sky
How My Dad's Cancer Saved Our Relationship
How One Gross Invention Added Decades to Human Life
My Grandfather Was the Best Storyteller I Ever Knew
The Surprising History of Air Conditioning and the Man Behind It
I Thought I Knew My Father Until I Read His World War II Diary
Why the U.S. and Britain Nearly Went to War Over a Pig
Twenty Years After My Sister's Murder, I Wrote to Her Killer
The Story of America: Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency [Ep. 41]
How Maurice Sendak Redrew Childhood in “Where the Wild Things Are”
How a Childhood Fascination With Paper Airplanes Became a World Record Career
Five Brothers Went Off to Fight World War II
The Truth About Michael Jackson’s Changing Skin Color
The Race That Sealed Secretariat's Legacy: The Story of the 1973 Belmont Stakes
The Boy Behind “La Bamba”: The Story of Ritchie Valens
Thomas Paine and the Pamphlet That Sparked the American Revolution
Reconciling Dad the Farmer and Dad the WWII Pilot
Bear Bryant Taught Him to Win, the Packers Taught Him to Believe
Pilsner: The Czech Beer That Conquered America
Inside Johnny Carson and Joan Rivers’ Rise and Fall on The Tonight Show
My Life Is Broken Into "BD & AD": Before Dad & After Dad
Jimmy Stewart Left Hollywood Stardom to Bomb Nazi Germany
The Story of America: The Rise of Andrew Jackson and the Common Man [Ep. 22]
Abandoned at Birth in Korea: One Woman’s Adoption Story
The Story of America: The Rise of the Progressives [Ep. 40]
The Best Time I Spent with My Dad Was Guarding Him in Prison
Dale Robertson Was Wounded in WWII Before Finding Fame in Hollywood
When America Believed Bat People Lived on the Moon: The Great Moon Hoax
A Student Complained About a 92. The Real Problem Was Something Else.
The Story of America: William Jennings Bryan and the “Cross of Gold” [Ep. 39]
She Served Her Time. Her Record Still Wouldn’t Let Her Move On.
The Baseball Found on One of America’s Bloodiest Battlefields
Before “Gunsmoke,” James Arness Fought and Bled in World War II
Elijah Lovejoy: The First Martyr of America’s Abolition Movement
Colin Powell Through the Eyes of His Son, Michael Description:
Michael Vick Was the NFL’s Biggest Star. Then He Lost Everything.
The Radical Decision That Changed Ian Rowe’s Life: Staying Put
Nile Kinnick: The Gridiron Hero Reagan Thought Could Be President
The Real Man Behind “I Love the Smell of Napalm in the Morning”
When a 3rd Grade Boy Learned His Father Was Missing in Vietnam
The LLC, Concrete, and the Index Fund: Fifty Things That Shaped the Modern Economy
Was America’s First President Really George Washington?
How Do You Eulogize a Daughter Who Never Lived?
Vince Lombardi: The Coach, the Catholic, and the Man Behind the Legend
Before Big & Rich, John Rich Was Starting Over in Nashville
Pastor of the Pilgrims, John Robinson: 100 Bible Verses That Made America
Danny Elfman Never Planned to Become a Film Composer. Then Tim Burton Called
I Sewed Through Fabric My Great-Grandmother Chose Before World War I
How One Company Helped an Employee Find Her Calling
The Night 2 H-Bombs Fell on North Carolina (Told By the Man Who Dismantled Them)
The Boston Marathon Did Not Want Women Running in 1967. Kathrine Switzer Ran Anyway
William Faulkner Turned His Mississippi Hometown Into Literary History
How a Log Cabin Helped Spark the Great Awakening in Early America
From Montserrat to America: Patrice Onwuka’s Story of Opportunity
Brett Favre’s Tribute to His Father
The USS Enterprise Coffee Disaster
The Cuban Immigrant Behind the Famous Coors Light Silver Bullet Can
The Olympic Marathon Where Drinking Water Was Banned
Steve McQueen Escaped a Broken Childhood and Became Hollywood’s Biggest Star
Why Memorial Day Matters: The Uncle Lee Habeeb Never Knew, Killed in WWII
A Medal of Honor Recipient Through the Eyes of His Father
Karl Marlantes: How I Came to Terms with My Navy Cross
Remembering The USS Indianapolis: The Worst Naval Disaster in American History
Why Robert E. Lee’s Estate Became Arlington National Cemetery
John Moses Browning: The Mormon Inventor Behind Modern Pistols and Machine Guns
A Listener's Childhood Story: Rollerskating in the Farmhouse
At 16, Pregnancy Gave Her a Reason to Change Her Life
The Story of America: Andrew Jackson and the Rise of the Common Man [Ep. 21]
The First Pilot At Ground Zero Recalls His First Jobs
Meet John Clem, the Youngest Soldier to Fight in the Civil War
The Customer Service Lesson Mike Leven Never Forgot
Stephen Ambrose on the Young Men Who Flew WWII Bombers
The Mom Who Refused to Give Up on Her Mono Mono Twins
The Opera Singer Who Left Her Husband One Last Song
Why Bob Munden Is Still the Fastest Gun on Record
She Spent 46 Years Searching for the Sisters She Never Met
Johnny Cash Entered a Cave to Die. He Found God Instead.
The Story of a Real-Life “Rosie the Riveter”
Louis Armstrong Changed American Music Forever
Fannie Farmer’s Revolutionary Role in Measuring Cups, Recipes, and Modern Home Cooking
How Glen Bell Learned the Taco Business and Built Taco Bell
This Day in History | After Penn Station Fell, Jackie Kennedy Fought to Save Grand Central
Before Modern Televangelists, There Was Aimee Semple McPherson
How Mars Inc. Quietly Took Over the Candy Industry (and Then Some)
The Hilarious Story of New Mexico’s Infamous “Pointy Hat” Amendment
Everything Is Gambling Now: The Rise, Reign, and Rule of Sports Gambling
This Day in History: How George Strait’s “Love Without End, Amen” Was Born
How a Father’s Desperate Prayer Created Braveheart
After Losing His Son and Taking Two Lives, This Officer Nearly Lost Himself
Why Shirley Chisolm Reached a Man Who Built His Career on Racism
Story of a Song: The Real Story Behind “My Sharona”
She Took In Her Husband’s Affair Baby as Her Own
The Memphis Business Leader Who Puts Business Last
Don’t Tread On Me: The Origins of the Gadsden Flag
She Didn’t Want to Hold Her Nephew at First
The Final Conversation Between NYPD Officer Jason Rivera and His Wife
The Last Slave Ship to America and the Town Its Survivors Built
Diego Moreno: The Police Officer Everyone Called When They Needed Backup
Why Hollywood Cowboy Tim McCoy Went to War Twice
“I Didn’t Want Children… Then I Met Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller”
Before Hollywood, Danny Trejo Was Behind Bars
How B.B. King’s Guitar “Lucille” Got Her Name
Why a Young Black Man Became a Cop on Skid Row
“My Husband Died a Hero, but He Also Lived as One”
He Thought Johnny Cakes Were Named After Him
The Oakland Raiders Were So Bad Fans Created Fantasy Football
How George Washington's Bible Survived 9/11
Why a Restaurant Cook Became a Police Officer
“Fatty Fatty Two by Four” to NFL Legend: John Hannah's Story
Patty Hearst: From Kidnapping Victim to Bank Robber?
“We Got This”: A Daughter Remembers Sgt. Richard Mendez
How the War of 1812 Changed America Forever | Story of America Ep. 19
We Live Through History Without Even Realizing It
Before Hollywood, Young Ronald Reagan Worked as a Sports Broadcaster
How Chevy Chase’s Gerald Ford Impression Changed a Presidency
How Harry S. Truman Went from Shirt Salesman to President
Why the Best Time in History to Be Alive Might Be Right Now
Women in WWII: Ilene Hall Enlisted to Follow Her Husband to War
Learning to Ride a Horse at 60
The Story of America: How Thomas Jefferson Doubled the United States in 1803 [Ep. 18]
A Gold Star Father on Loss, Service, and His Son’s Legacy
My Family Spent 4 Months Playing Battleship in a Cornfield
The Plan Was Simple. The Road Trip Was Not
Orson Welles and the Night “War of the Worlds” Terrified America
Dan Fogelberg and the Father Behind “Leader of the Band”
Why Tyrone Power Left Hollywood to Fight in World War II
A Marine’s Final Conversation with His Father
Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of the Legendary Scam Artist
JC Newman and America’s Oldest Family-Owned Cigar Company
Abraham Lincoln’s Son: The Forgotten Story of Robert Todd Lincoln
Matthew Carey: The Irish Immigrant Who Shaped Early America
When Oregon Blew Up a Beached Whale With Dynamite
Zoro the Drummer's Career Started With Nothing
How George Lucas Made the First Star Wars Against the Odds
Into the Vast Unknown: The First American Ascent of Mount Everest
Locks of Love: How One Mother Built a Hair Donation Nonprofit
Rediscovering My Dad Cy Walter: The Art Tatum of Cocktail Pianists
What Happened When Buck O’Neil Missed the Hall of Fame by One Vote
Before Billy Graham, There Was Billy Sunday
Paul Revere’s Ride: The Poem That Made a Legend
George Washington: The Definitive Story of America’s First President
The SR-71 Blackbird Disaster at 78,000 Feet: How One Pilot Fell from Space and Survived
From Wall Street Workaholic to Foster Care Reformer: Paul Blavin's Mission
The South Vietnamese Pilot Who Stole a Plane to Save His Family
The Kindness of Strangers: A Group Home’s Night Out Ends With a Surprise
The Story of America: Marbury v. Madison and the Power of the Court [Ep. 17]
Inside Atlanta’s Breman Museum: Jewish Life in the American South
From Homelessness to Handcrafted Furniture: J.J. Jones’ Story
Thomas Jefferson: Brilliant, Flawed, but Still Deeply American
The Inspiring Story of Anne Beiler, Founder of Auntie Anne's Pretzels
A Presidential-Sized Comeback: The Story of Ulysses S. Grant
The True Story of How Curious George Escaped the Nazis
Who Was the Oldest Man at D-Day? The Untold Story of Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
I Grew Up Detached from My Jewish History. Then I Went to Buchenwald
How a Simple Jam Session Became Rock’s Greatest Supergroup
Forgiving My Worthless Father
Jackie Robinson Didn’t Just Change Baseball. He Changed America
The Story of Captain Kangaroo
What It Was Like to Stand in the Shadow of an Atomic Blast
In 1838, Two U.S. Congressmen Dueled with… Rifles!
The CEO Who Stripped His Jet to Say He Was Sorry
After Losing His Fingers in a Fire, One Boy Faced the Impossible—with a Piano
The Kidnapping That Ended With One Oilman Outsmarting Machine Gun Kelly
The Unexpected Olympic Friendship That Defied Hitler’s Propaganda
The Puritan Who Brought Scripture to New England’s Tribes
Life Before Digital Photos: The Last Days of Kodachrome
Theodore Roosevelt: The Protestant President Who Protected an Antisemite with Jewish Police Officers
The Black Medal of Honor Recipient Who Bombed His Own Hideout to Save Lives
“Red Tape” and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions (Pt. 19)
How My Grandpa’s Singing Changed My Life
"Back to Square One" and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions (Pt. 3)
The Story of How the Muppets Began as a TV Commercial
What George Washington Did on Christmas Changed Everything
A Family Speaks At Their Fallen Hero's Funeral: Colorado Deputy Micah Flick
The Scout Never Called: Growing Up in Competitive Sports
Caring for My Dying Husband Made Life Worth Living
Becoming Dr. Seuss: The Making of an American Imagination
Couple Adopts 7 Siblings Separated Across Four Foster Homes!
President Reagan's Greatest Speech You've Never Heard: His July 4 Speech in NY Harbor
Who Invented the Internet?
Theodore Roosevelt: That Damn Cowboy
Why the American Flag Means So Much to My Family
How Spam and Chocolate Became America’s Secret Weapons in WWII
The Rural Missouri Church That Preaches In Five Languages
How the Automobile Solved a Problem No One Could Ignore
The Intimidator: Dale Earnhardt's Life In The Fast Lane
Rosa Parks, In Her Own Words: The Woman Who Challenged Segregation and Changed the World
Weapons of World War II with Stephen Ambrose: Barbed Wire, Mines, Guns, and Artillery
Meeting the Mother of My Foster Child Changed My Life
The Obituary of a Man Who Escaped Stalin and Hitler
The Enslaved Man-Turned-Spy Who Helped Washington Win America's Independence: James Armistead Lafayette
America's Greatest Grifter? The Odd Story of Appleton Oaksmith: Presumed Slave Trader, Confederate Spy, and Voting Rights Activist
A Wife’s Heartfelt Letter to Her Husband After Pregnancy Loss
Justice Scalia on Why The Constitution is Unique
A Veteran Police Officer on Mental Illness, Homelessness, and the Frontlines of Crisis
The Story of Justice Scalia: From His Immigrant Roots to the Highest Court in the Land (Pt. 1)
How the USS Lexington Became a Floating Symbol of American Resolve
Roberto Clemente’s Legacy Preserved by a Fan Who Never Forgot
Why a Rhodes Scholar Walked Away from Oxford to Fight in the Vietnam War
She Was Japanese American During WWII, but Her Story Was Very Different
Surviving Persecution: Mariam Ibrahim’s Journey from Sudan to America
The Civil War Cemetery Where Union, Confederate, and British Veterans Lie Side by Side
A Thread Across the Ocean: The Story of the Transatlantic Cable
The “LA Speed Check”: A Story from a Pilot of the Fastest Plane in the World
The Football Team That Broke Baltimore's Heart
Fighting Crime in Downtown Los Angeles with Love, Respect, and God
I Picked Up "Tex" Watson Hitchhiking AFTER the Manson Murders
The Man Who Spent All of His Christmas Savings Building Beds for Needy Children
Memorable Christmas Stories in U.S. Military History
A Family Man's Search for the Perfect Christmas Tree
The Woman Who Voiced Rudolph
Behind the Blue Christmas: How Elvis Was Coaxed into Recording a Christmas Album
The Teen CEO of the Candy That Cleans Your Teeth
The Tragedy Behind 'I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day'
What Happened to Saturday Morning Cartoons?
How I Was Changed by My Short-Term Mission Trip
The Shocking Story Behind the Diamond Engagement Ring
Everett’s Last Christmas Carol
A Listener Recounts Spotting Satellites In The Sky With His Father in The Mountains of New Mexico
The Woman Who Convinced Lincoln to Make Thanksgiving a Holiday
The Character of Thomas Jefferson: America's 'Everyman'
Tom Landry: A Story from “America’s Coach”
Balloons Over Broadway: The American Visionary Who Created the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloons
How My Daughter's Schizophrenia Led Us to Open a Business Run by Special Needs Employees
Was Eisenhower Really Responsible For Our Interstate Highways?
How Acting Legend Eddie Albert Served Our Country in WWII
“Black Harry” Hoosier: The Story Behind Indiana’s Namesake
The Great Thanksgiving Cranberry Scare of 1959
From Steel Town to Tinsel Town: The Life of Composer Henry Mancini
A Listener's Touching Story On His Father—and Jack Kerouac
The Inventor Extraordinaire Who Gave Us the Safety Pin: Walter Hunt
Treating the Cause, Not the Symptoms: A Listener's Life-Changing Lifestyle Story
He Travels the Country Reviewing... Onion Rings?
What I Learned from a Dying Patient
He Became a POW in Vietnam Two Days Before His Baby Was Born
The Man In The Glass Coffin
Why Are Bananas So Cheap?
Mr. 60s: A Baby-Boomer’s Story of Trials, Triumphs... and Redemption
Hollywood Goes To War: Henry Fonda
“On Skid Row” and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions
Lessons From The Giving Tree
Whiskey Is In Their Blood
Brett Favre on Tough Love, Parenting, and Telling the Truth
I Found Out I was Adopted At 30!
"No! No! No! Who the Hell Boos Santa Claus?!" The Story of the Time Eagles Fans Pelted Santa with Snowballs
Slavery Slayer: The Story of William Wilberforce
"Dark Horse & Dead Ringer" and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions
50 Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy: The iPhone, Radar, and TV Dinners
Her Mother Always Told Her She Was Strong... But Strength Isn't Always Enough
We're Holding Our Own: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
"Fair Game" and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions
The Woman Who Voiced Rudolph
The First Pilot at Ground Zero Recalls His First Jobs
"Gung-Ho & Cheesy Smile" and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions
Weapons of WWII With Stephen Ambrose: Poison Gas and Transportation
The LLC, Concrete, and the Index Fund: Fifty Things That Shaped the Modern Economy
The Time I Nearly Died in Pilot Training
The Story of Justice Scalia: From His Immigrant Roots to the Highest Court in the Land (Pt. 2)
How Patrick Henry Saved America from Its First Civil War
Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
Pastor of the Pilgrims, John Robinson: 100 Bible Verses That Made America
Hollywood Movie Legend George O’Brien Left Everything to Serve His Country in WWII
President Reagan's Greatest Speech You've Never Heard: His July 4 Speech in NY Harbor
"I Came Here Not to Talk, but to Die": The Story of Outlaw Cherokee Bill
The Story of Air Conditioning, the Barcode, and the Elevator Brake!
I Would Kill People for Money... but Then God Gave Me Life
Buck O'Neil's Lesson on Dealing with Defeat Like a Man
How an Ex-Slave and His White Abolitionist Sidekick Rescued Slaves, Taunted Slavers, and Gave the "Underground Railroad" Its Name
The Missionary Who Returned with Her Toddler to the Cannibal Tribe That Killed Her Husband
Empathy is Not Optional: The Story of Mike Leven's Brutal Law Professor
The Whittaker Chambers Story: From Soviet Spy to American Cold War Hero
Me, Pre, and the Birth of Nike
The Remarkable Life of Abe's Son, Robert Todd Lincoln—Lost in His Father’s Shadow
Were the Irish the First Slaves in America?
“Propose a Toast” and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions (Pt. 17)
Pilot Dies, Passenger Lands Plane—with His Family on Board
A Fake Ring, Real Temptation, and a Golden Marriage
Belinda Mulrooney: The Richest, Toughest Woman of the Klondike Gold Rush
Becoming Dr. Seuss: The Making of an American Imagination
How My Dad's Wounds of War Fueled My Drive to Serve Vets
I Worked Out of Workaholism… and My Life Is Working Better
Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of the Legendary Scam Artist
The Best Worst Counterfeiter in American History
The One College Football Run That Changed My Life
A Father Wanted a Clean Hotel for His Family... So He Created Holiday Inn
Michael Powell’s Final Thoughts for His Father, General Colin Powell
Brett Favre’s Tribute to His Father
Ilene Hall Joined the Army to Find Her Husband in the Middle of WWII
The Story of the Barcode
The 1st Air Force Pilot at Ground Zero—and the Last to Know What Happened
Caring for My Dying Husband Made Life Worth Living
After 50 Years of Silence, Korean War Pilot Shares His Top-Secret Mission
Liquor and the Law: Taking a Wine Bottle to the Supreme Court
Bruce Wang, All-American: The Chinese Cowboy with a Southern Accent
The Story of How the Muppets Began as a TV Commercial
Hitler Called Him "The New Noah": Andrew Higgins and the Boats That Won WWII
Paul Revere's Ride
The Marine-Turned Saturday Morning Cartoonist: "My Calling from God Is to Be an Animator"
Hollywood Goes to War: The Story of Wayne Morris, the Brad Pitt of His Day
America Had a President Before George Washington?
The CEO Who Grew Up Without Running Water
The President Whose Greatness Came from His Restraint: The Story of President Calvin Coolidge
The Story of Why "The Wild, Wild West" Wasn't Actually Wild
"Back to Square One" and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions (Pt. 3)
Alzheimer's Caregiver: “I Will Remember for the Both of Us”
How a Losing Football Team Brought a Family Together
The South Vietnamese Pilot Who Stole a Plane to Save His Family
The Civil War Soldier Who Risked His Life to Give Water to His Enemies
My Father’s Super-Secret Double Life as a Nuclear Missile Savant
The Story of Charleston: The Way Life Used to Be, and Perhaps, Is Supposed to Be
50 Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy—The Plow, Barbed Wire, and Google Search
The Story of the Highest-Ranking Female Marine and First Female Annapolis Graduate to Be Killed in Action
Moral Injury: The Invisible Epidemic Affecting American Veterans
She Buried Over 60 Unclaimed People, Including Many Veterans
The Forgotten First Memorial Day: Freed Slaves Honoring Fallen Union Soldiers in Charleston
The Winner Who Always Finished Last
How Horse Racing and the Triple Crown Brought a Father and Son Together
The Henry Steinway Story
Are Professional Wrestlers Athletes?
The Story of How Chick-fil-A Borrowed “My Pleasure” from a Luxury Hotel
How an Escaped Slave Hijacked a Confederate Ship and Sailed It to Freedom
Abercrombie & Fitch: The Story Behind the Story of an Iconic American Brand
American Freedom Machines: The Story of Harley-Davidson
Three Stories Guaranteed to Make You Laugh About the King of Rock & Roll—From the Man Who Was There
The Story of the Brooklyn Bridge—The Eighth Wonder of the World
How an Iowa Waitress Became an Officer's Wife in Texas
Burrito Restaurant Owner Offers Job to Burglar
The Story of the Quiet Cowboy
The “LA Speed Check”: A Story from a Pilot of the Fastest Plane in the World
Samuel Colt and the Birth of the Revolver
The Story of a 5-Star Steakhouse CEO and Her NFL Linebacker Husband
The Story of the Infamous University of Wisconsin Stampede
My Life After "19 Kids and Counting"—As Told by Jill Duggar and Her Husband Derick
Centerline: The Surprising History of Lane Markings
How Smallpox Created Canada by Destroying Washington’s Army
Brett Favre on His Miraculous Monday Night Game After His Father Died
Ambrose on Ike
The Making of an American Pantheon: Grant's Tomb
Grant's Greatest Battle
What Happened to Bonnie and Clyde When They Came to Small-Town Iowa
The Story of the Russian Immigrant Who Created America's Most Beloved Music—Irving Berlin
The Story of Alexander Hamilton
The Civil War General Who Took His Dates to See His Severed Leg at the Smithsonian Museum
How VHS Beat Betamax
The Harriet Tubman Story
The Stories Behind Our Easter Traditions
Louis Zamperini: The Story of the Real-Life "Unbroken" Hero -- In His Own Words
The "Slap Shot" Story with Dave Hanson
“Hunky Dory & Hedge Your Bets” and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions (Pt. 9)
The Privileges of War? A Green Beret's Story of American Service in Vietnam
How Coach Bear Bryant Saved and Changed My Life
The 1926 Race to the Pole: A Story of Polar Exploration
Suffering Fueled His Greatness: John Hannah on What It Took to Be the Best Offensive Lineman of All Time
Why Are There So Many Types of Screws?
They Will Be Remembered: A Letter for All Those Who Served
This Log Cabin Led to the “Great Awakening”—Which Led to the American Revolution
Why Are Bananas So Cheap?
An Army Moves on Its Stomach... And Lots of Coffee
How Johnny Carson Saved Twister
I Came to New York City Dead: The Story of Sarah Gonzalez's Redemption
How a Major League Baseball Game Turned Into the “Ten Cent Beer Night” Riot
Brett Favre on Tough Love, Parenting, and Telling the Truth
"Wild Goose Chase" & "Wrong End of The Stick" and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions (Pt. 25)
I Fell in Love at Lambeau Field (Home of the Green Bay Packers)
A Son Discovers His Deceased Mother's Hidden Talent—Poetry
The Heart of America: Texas Grocery Store Loses Power, Lets Customers Leave Without Paying
The Story of How Railroads Created America's Time Zones
Meeting the Mother of My Foster Child Changed My Life
The Forgotten Story of the Black Man Who Was the First to Shed Blood in the Civil War
The Story of the Real—and Mostly Unknown—Author of the U.S. Constitution, Gouverneur Morris
The 'Forrest Gump' of Drummers: The Story of Zoro
The American Cigar Making Tradition
Last Men Out of Vietnam: Evacuating Saigon
How B.B. King's Guitar "Lucille" Got Her Name
James Madison: Founding Father and Lawgiver
How Nike Took a Bet on a College Basketball Player From North Carolina and Won
The Story of Secretariat’s Owner, Penny Chenery (As Told by the Director of “Secretariat,” Randall Wallace)
The American Sniper Other American Snipers Look Up To
The Improbable Story of How the Wright Brothers Changed World History
"Tie the Knot" & "Black Balled" and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions (Pt. 23)
The Most Famous Abolitionist You Never Heard Of: The Story of Thomas Shipley
What I Learned About Freedom After Escaping North Korea
Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice: The Navy’s "Jackie Robinson" (Told by His Granddaughter)
The Turning Point in Abe’s Life: A Wrestling Match
Abigail Adams and Her 7-Year-Old Son John Quincy Witnessed First-hand The Battle of Bunker Hill: 100 Bible Verses That Made America
Girl with a Gun: The Annie Oakley Story
A Brief History of Toilet Paper
"Fair Game" and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions
Bankrupt and Dying from Cancer, Ulysses S. Grant Waged His Greatest Battle
The Story of the Real Saint Patrick
The Story of James Best (AKA Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane) of "The Dukes of Hazzard"
Ronald Reagan's D-Day Speech
One of the Most Decorated Veterans of All Time: The Col. David Hackworth Story
The Story of The Horse Racing Buffalo: Harvey Wallbanger
I Admit it, I Sew Quilts
When "Neutral" America Occupied "Neutral" Iceland During WWII
Truth Wins: The Story of Lance Armstrong’s Former Teammate, Tyler Hamilton
Titanic Thompson: The Greatest Cheat of All Time
Asbestos: The Story of the Mineral That Used to Be in Everything
"Cat Got Your Tongue?" and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions
The Founding Fathers Said, No Bible—No America: 100 Bible Verses That Made America
Founding Father Benjamin Rush: Father of Psychiatry, the Army Medical Corps, and Veterinary Care
My Father Was Friends with Castro...Until He Wasn't
The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn: More Americans Died in the Revolutionary War on this British Prison Ship Than in Combat
Vietnam Vets Wouldn’t Sell Their Story to Hollywood, But They Sold “We Were Soldiers” to the Writer of “Braveheart”
The Roy Rogers Story: Family Man, American Legend
My Life After Firefighting
The Story of How a Dog Walked a Couple Through Their Infertility Struggle
The Titanic’s Last Hero
Butch Cassidy: The Man Who Brought Organization to Unorganized Crime in the West
The Story of the First Man to Die in An Airplane Crash
Jack London's "To Build a Fire"
The Story of How George Strait's "Love Without End, Amen" Came to Be
My Daughter, Out There... On The Beam
Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon
How a UCLA Student in the 70s Saved the Marx Brothers
How Piggly Wiggly Created the Modern Supermarket
The Medal of Honor Recipient Who Crashed His Plane on Purpose to Get To His Downed Wingman
Dick Bong, Ace of Aces: The Greatest Fighter Pilot in American History
Mr. 60s: A Baby-Boomer’s Story of Trials, Triumphs... and Redemption
Two American Heroes—Martin Luther King, Jr. and Booker T. Washington—Who Overcame Injustice With a Zero-Victim Attitude
The Billy Graham Story
Doc Holliday: Outlaw Gentlemen, Shady Ladies, and Tombstone
"Dark Horse & Dead Ringer" and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions (Pt. 7)
The Most Famous Partnership in Showbiz History—The Real Story of Colonel Parker and Elvis Presley
The Vincent van Gogh of Acting? HINT: He Played "Fredo"
The Inventor of the Machine Gun Became Deaf—So His Son Invented the Silencer
The Shocking Story Behind the Diamond Engagement Ring
What I Learned from A Dying Patient
How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain
G-Man: The Life and Times of J. Edgar Hoover
In His Father's Village, Nobody Could Read...So He Moved to America and Became an Engineer
MIT's Basketball Coach: "Those Nerds Can Only Handle One Play"
The Baseball Team That Fought For Equality Before Jackie Robinson Hit The Majors
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
Heart-Washing: My Antidote to 14 Years of Brainwashing in a Communist Prison
Fighting Crime in Downtown Los Angeles with Love, Respect, and God
“Knock on Wood & Kick the Bucket” and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions (Pt. 11)
Remembering the Gold Star Father Whose Story Inspired the Hit Country Song "I Drive Your Truck"
The Man Who Witnessed the Assassination of Abe Lincoln
The Untold Story of Christopher Columbus
A Texas Boy vs. an Air Traffic Control Bully
The Gospel of Gettysburg: The Story Behind the Story of the Gettysburg Address
A Little Brother's Prayer to Be As Big As His Very Big Brother
I Picked Up "Tex" Watson Hitchhiking AFTER the Manson Murders
"The First Guy Cannot Fail": The Jackie Robinson Story
Lesson Learned: Clean Hog Manure Off Boots Before Going to School
How a Group of Daring Bootleggers Created NASCAR
A President, a Preacher, and a Giant Block of Cheese
Life Before Digital Photos: The Last Days of Kodachrome
The Story of A Real-Life “Rosie the Riveter”
The Story of Captain Kangaroo
General Colin Powell: The Story of the Man Behind the Stars
"All Hell Broke Loose" and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions (Pt. 1)
The Story of Mario Andretti: A Refugee from Communism to the Heights of Auto Racing
The Union Colonel Who Showed Mercy on Confederate POWs During the Civil War
The Story of How Star Wars Toys Revolutionized Movie Merchandising (Part 2)
The Father Whose Life Story Inspired the Son Who Wrote "Braveheart"
The Short, Happy Life of Abraham Lincoln: His Final Days
I Invented the Modern Age: The Story of Henry Ford
A Father’s Note to His “Timeless” Daughter…Who Functions at a Toddler Level
Before Mary Kay, There Was Madam C.J. Walker—The First Self-Made Female Millionaire
Why Cincinnati is Named After George Washington...and a Roman Farmer
The Tone Deaf, Bad Poet Who Wrote the National Anthem
Rosa Parks, In Her Own Words: The Woman Who Challenged Segregation and Changed the World
Guitar Virtuoso Tommy Emmanuel: I Came To America Because Everything Here Is Better
Michael Powell’s Final Thoughts For His Father, General Colin Powell
Chef Boyardee: American Hero
The Great Emancipators: How The Civil War Openly Became About Slavery
When People Sent Their Children Through the Mail
The Green Beret That Other Green Berets Look Up To
President Reagan's Greatest Speech You've Never Heard: His July 4 Speech in NY Harbor
John Moses Browning: The Mormon Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World
“Peeping Tom” and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions (Pt. 14)
The Black Pitcher and White Catcher That Made the 1964 World Series Unforgettable
The Story of How Star Wars Toys Revolutionized Movie Merchandising (Part 1)
How 2 Engineers Created the Highest-Rated Gag Gift on Amazon
How Boston Embraced the Brothers of John Wilkes Booth Following Lincoln's Assassination
From Animal House to Belushi and Seinfeld: Mark "Neidermeyer" Metcalf's Story
The Late, Great Stephen Ambrose on the Boys Who Flew B-24s in WWII
The Redemptive True Story of a Cocaine Drug Lord
The One Book I Never Thought I Would Write
The B-25 In My Dad's Backyard
How One Man's Faith Moved Him to Fight for A Wrongly Imprisoned Man
Yogi Berra: An American Success Story (by George Will)
Basketball Legend "Pistol Pete" Maravich Shares His Life Story... Just Days Before His Death
The Man Who Was a Founder AND Mascot: KFC's Colonel Sanders
A Museum Dedicated To...Mustard?
I Was Detached About My Family's Holocaust Story....Until I Went to Buchenwald
A Marine Mourns the Death of His Tough-as-Nails Marine Father
How a Fake Doctor Ran Carnival Sideshows and Saved Thousands of Infants and Changed Medical History
Uncle Nearest: The Former Slave Who Taught Jack Daniels How to Make Whiskey
Dwayne “The Rock" Johnson's Eulogy to His Father
One Cop's Take on Mental Illness, Homelessness, and Crime
Theodore Roosevelt: That Damn Cowboy
The Day a Soviet Nuclear Attack Submarine Rammed an American Aircraft Carrier
50 Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy: The iPhone, RADAR, and TV Dinners
Zuzu’s “Wonderful Life”: The Story of the Child Actress Who Starred in Frank Capra's," It's A Wonderful Life"
The Real Stories Behind Our Cherished Christmas Traditions
A Family Man's Search for the Perfect Christmas Tree
Christmas, 1776
How "A Charlie Brown Christmas" Almost Didn't Happen
A Bible Reading 200,000 Miles from Earth
How Elvis Was Coaxed into Recording a Christmas Album—As Told by a Man Who Was There
Why the Nativity? (w/ Dr. David Jeremiah)
Getting Prepared to Go Face-to-Face with the Toughest Admiral in Navy History
The Most Important Churchill Speech You've Never Heard: His Christmas Address to Congress Weeks After Pearl Harbor
“Son of a Gun & Steal My Thunder” and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions
Memorable Christmas Stories in U.S. Military History
An Aussie Discovers American Wings
The Woman Who Voiced Rudolph
The Chicago Maintenance Man Who Wrote a Hallmark Christmas Movie
The Man Who Spent All of His Christmas Savings Building Beds for Needy Children
“Put A Sock in It” and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions (Pt. 18)
"Bless You" and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions (Pt. 6)
My Hero-Father Needed No Star and No Cape
The Story of the Mason-Dixon Line: The Colonial-Era Border Battle That Defined the Civil War
Silent Night: The Story of the World’s Most Famous Christmas Carol
The Baileys' Story: A Daughter, a Drug Dealer, and a Miracle
The Story of Alvin York: The Tennessee Farm Boy Who Went from Pacifist to One of America's Greatest War Heroes
Everett’s Last Christmas Carol
As Watergate Separated Americans, This Speaker of The House United Them
"Gung-ho & Cheesy Smile" and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions (Pt. 8)
When America's Greatest (And Last) Bareknuckle Boxer Challenged America to A Fight
The Race that Forever Sealed Secretariat's Legacy: The Story of the 1973 Belmont Stakes
Were All Japanese Americans In Internment Camps? One Woman's Story
The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Major League Baseball’s Legendary Slugger—Darryl Strawberry
16, Addicted, Pregnant: My Motherhood Story
The Fascinating Origins of The Salvation Army
He Wrote "The Giving Tree" and Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue": The Shel Silverstein Story
How the Tow Truck Came to Be
He Flew Nukes, Captured World Records, and Saved His Way to Wealth...
"Pray for Us!": Father Receives Daughter's Text during Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre
The Untold Story Charles Lindbergh
The Great Vowel Shift and the Making of Modern English
Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of the Legendary Scam Artist
The Boys of Milo: Ted Godlove
The Atomic Marine
Lincoln: 1864
The Real Santa
How the NFL Went from Bush-League to Bigtime
A Family Lived in the New York Public Library?
Balloons Over Broadway: The American Visionary Who Created the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloons
The Great Thanksgiving Cranberry Scare of 1959
The Real Story of the First Thanksgiving
The Woman Who Wrote "Mary Had A Little Lamb" Is the Godmother of Thanksgiving?
Remembering the Worst Naval Disaster in American History (The USS Indianapolis)—A Story Featured in the Movie "Jaws"
“Black Harry” Hoosier: The Story Behind Indiana’s Namesake
They Call Her "The Stomach"
One Man's Mission to Find Work, Purpose, and Meaning for Millions
Balloons Over Broadway: The American Visionary Who Created the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloons
A Thanksgiving Evening with Refugees in Small Town Iowa
Pastor of the Pilgrims, John Robinson: 100 Bible Verses That Made America
The Real Story of the First Thanksgiving
Fannie Farmer: The Mother of Level Measurements
How a Master Chef Lost the Thanksgiving Turkey
An Empty Nester Helps a Lonely Lost Senior in a Nursing Home Find His Purpose
Is Die Hard a Xmas Movie? The Story and the Definitive Answer!
The Great Thanksgiving Cranberry Scare of 1959
The Man Who Rescued Over 10,000 Stranded Motorists
A Father's Love: Capone's Lawyer "Easy" Eddie and WWII Ace "Butch" O'Hare
The Bible: The Best-Selling Book of All Time
Why Did This Pittsburgh Steelers Legend—Owner Art Rooney—Attend the Funeral of Someone He Didn’t Know?
Big Nose Kate, more than Doc Holliday's Woman
The Story of America: The First Frontiersman President—Andrew Jackson
The Story Behind the Story of The Salem Witch Trials and The American Puritans
Pastor of the Pilgrims, John Robinson: 100 Bible Verses That Made America
Pat Boone: In A Metal Mood
How Nike Took a Bet on A College Basketball Player From North Carolina and Won
The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town
He Went to Work at Ford for Lee Iacocca... and Got More Than He Bargained For
The 1913 Storm
Burt Young’s Story: The Man Who Played Paulie in Rocky Opens Up About His Family and His Craft
The Sleeping Sentinel Who Received the Death Penalty, But Was Saved By President Lincoln
The Origins of America's Religious Liberty...Birthed in Queens, NYC?
Bob Munden: “The Fastest Gun Who Ever Lived”
Our American “Odyssey”: Stephen Ambrose on Lewis & Clark
The Woman Who Wrote "Mary Had a Little Lamb" Is the Godmother of Thanksgiving?
I Lived Through The Depression And Didn't Even Know It
“Propose a Toast” and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions (Pt. 17)
The Story of the Real—and Mostly Unknown—Author of the U.S. Constitution, Gouverneur Morris
The Story of Putting the Customer In Charge
The Great Thanksgiving Cranberry Scare of 1959
The Story of How "Women and Children First" Came to Be
The Real Story of the First Thanksgiving
How Patrick Henry Saved America from Its First Civil War
The Story of a Mother Who Destroys the Perfect Mom Myth
The Harvard Country Boys Who Shaped America
"You're Getting Shot At"—The Story of My First Combat Mission in Afghanistan
Holy Rollers: The True Story of Card Counting Christians
Surviving Hanoi: Larry Spencer's Story
A Medal of Honor Recipient Through The Eyes of His Father
Karl Marlantes: Why I Chose to Go to Vietnam
George Washington: America's First True Superhero
A Listener's Story About a Humble Local Hero -- Her Uncle
We're Holding Our Own: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Empathy is Not Optional: The Story of Mike Leven's Brutal Law Professor
The Untold Story of Steve McQueen
The First Martyr of the Abolition Movement: 100 Bible Verses That Made America
"Big Bucks, No Whammies!": The Man Who Cracked the Code of "Press Your Luck" And Won $110,000
The Story of the Pilot Who Fell from an SR-71 Blackbird—the Fastest Plane in History
The Remarkable Life of Abe's Son, Robert Todd Lincoln—Lost In His Father’s Shadow
Chuck Colson’s (Watergate’s “Evil Genius”) Fall From the Center of Power into Prison... and His Redemption
Stalin’s Daughter Became an American Citizen... and Wisconsin Cheesehead?
Her Career is a Tribute to Her Great Uncle, A D-Day Hero
Caring For My Dying Husband Made Life Worth Living
50 Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy—The Plow, Barbed Wire, and Google Search
One of the Last Navajo Code Talkers Remembers WWII’s “Unbreakable Code”
The Missionary Who Returned with Her Toddler to the Cannibal Tribe That Killed Her Husband
Thomas Bennett: The Man Behind the Winchester Brand
How Horse Racing and the Triple Crown Brought a Father and Son Together
“Wild Bill" Donovan, America’s Top Spymaster
King Solomon: The Story of the Grave Digging Drunk-Turned Hero
Did Lizzie Borden Get Away With Murder?
Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed The World
The Man in the Glass Coffin
Halloween Haunted House History
The Secret History Inside of Cracker Barrel
An Air Force Pilot's Post-Retirement Career Dilemma: A Job at a Big Bank or the Pilot of Air Force 2
The History of Our Favorite Horror Movies
2x Oscar Nominee Volunteers for WWII at 37: The Story of Robert Montgomery
The Story of the One-Ton Pumpkin
Halloween: The History of an American Holiday
The History of Our Favorite Horror Movies
America Strikes Back: The Doolittle Raids and the Battle of the Coral Sea
From Darkness to Light: The Story Of The Man Who Invented the Maglite Flashlight
Last Men Out of Vietnam: Evacuating Saigon
A Black Cowboy is the Inspiration for the Lone Ranger?
The Story of an Escaped Slave Who Hijacked a Confederate Ship and Sailed it to Freedom
King Solomon: The Story of the Grave Digging Drunk-Turned Hero
Have Pool Cue, Will Travel
The Antiwar Presidential Candidate—Who Was a Pilot-Hero in WWII
The Only Car Ever Made To Honor God
The Man Who Wrote 'I'll Fly Away'
The Loyal(ist) Son: The Story of Ben Franklin's Son Taking Britain's Side During the Revolutionary War
How a Hollywood Blockbuster Inspired America’s Most Famous Robbery and Shootout—in North Hollywood
From Rags to Riches: The Story of the Silver Rush Kings and the "Big Bonanza"
Saving Monticello: One Family's Struggle to Make Sure History was Remembered
The Story of the American Japanese Who Fought Against the Japanese in WWII
Pathway to God: 2,000 Miles on the Appalachian Trail
The Bible Reading 200,000 Miles From Earth
The First Pilot At Ground Zero Recalls His First Jobs
Zero Victim: One Black Man's Story of Transformation
Horse Jumping Was Dull -- So They Jumped Mules
Abercrombie & Fitch: The Story Behind the Story of an Iconic American Brand
How VHS Beat Betamax
She Buried Over 60 Unclaimed People, Including Many Veterans
The Poverty of Fatherlessness: Blair Linne's Story
The Man in the Glass Coffin
The Twin Brothers Who Brought America EMTs, 911 Dispatchers - and Saved Millions of Lives
The Story of How Texas Joined the United States
The Story of the One-Ton Pumpkin
Halloween: The History of an American Holiday
Bob Munden: “The Fastest Gun Who Ever Lived”
James K. Polk: The Best President Americans Don't Know
How Pat Boone Became Famous
Wayne Gretzky Memorializes His Father
Brett Favre on His Miraculous Monday Night Game after His Father Died (Pt. 3)
A Texas Boy vs. an Air Traffic Control Bully
The Story of Pinball
How a College Student Sued the National Government and Saved Grant's Tomb
A Former German Soldier...Who Helped Build America's Arsenal of Democracy In WWII
He Made Paper Airplanes His Full Time Job
Caring For My Dying Husband Made Life Worth Living
"It's Me or The Guest": How Pat Boone Stood Up for Henry Belafonte and Challenged Apartheid
The Story of Sergeant York: The Religious Pacifist Who Became One of America’s Greatest War Heroes
The Fateful Night During WWII Cecil Wax Met God
The Great Chicago Fire—and the Even Greater Chicago Recovery
A Doolittle Raider’s Story of War & Forgiveness
"I Came Here Not To Talk, But To Die": The Story of Outlaw Cherokee Bill
The Untold Story of a Civil War Cemetery
The “LA Speed Check”: A Story from a Pilot of the Fastest Plane in the World
The Life of Duke Ellington: An American Original
Halloween Haunted House History
The "Slap Shot" Story with Dave Hanson
“Red Tape” and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions (Pt. 19)
A Father Wanted A Clean Hotel For His Family... So He Created Holiday Inn
Triumph and Disaster: The Life of Rudyard Kipling
Treating the Cause, Not the Symptoms: A Listener's Life-Changing Lifestyle Story
Curly (of "The Three Stooges") Was My Grandfather... But My Family Kept It a Secret from Me
"If You Act Like a Lady, Men Will Always Treat You as One": Gold Rush Queen, Nellie Cashman
The Time I Nearly Died in Pilot Training
Legendary Founder of The Ritz Carlton: My Employees Are My Closest Neighbor
California Softens Criminality—Skid Row Police Officer Deon Responds with "Ladies Night"
Bruce Wang, All-American: The Chinese Cowboy With A Southern Accent
A One Man (Abridged) History of the Big Apple
The Only Woman to be Awarded the Medal of Honor
“Wild Bill" Donovan, America’s Top Spymaster
The Story of the Brooklyn Bridge—The 8th Wonder of the World
"Bring Home the Bacon" and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions (Pt. 5)
The Story of How One Bad Employee Harmed a Bank's Reputation (Told by the Ritz-Carlton Founder)
The Little Boy Who Saved His Family
Nellie Bly's Record-Breaking Trip Around the World
Adolph Coors: The German Immigrant Who Brought Us Banquet Beer
The Man Who Milks Snakes for a Living
Valerie Habeeb's Story: From Sexual Abuse to Salvation
Going Postal: How The USPS Came to Be
The Untold Stories of Dr. Seuss's "The Lorax" and "The Grinch"
The 1926 Race to the South Pole
A Son Discovers His Deceased Mother's Hidden Talent
The Story Behind FDR's Day of Infamy Speech
The Titanic’s Last Hero
The Heiress of "America's Billionaire King" Who Joined Her Terrorist-Abductors: The Story of Patty Hearst
Winston Churchill on Education and What It Means for All of Us
The WWII Story of a Black Man Who Rescued White Sailors by Swimming 6 Hours in Shark-Infested Waters
How One Black Woman Led in the Redemption of "The Most Dangerous Racist In America": The Story of George Wallace and Shirley Chisholm
Before Kevin Costner's "Yellowstone" was Richard King's "King Ranch"
"Apple of Your Eye" and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions (Pt. 2)
The Constitution's First Test—Washington's First Term: The Story of America [Ep. 14]
David McCullough: The Founding Fathers Were Not Like Us?
How the Constitution Came to Be: The Story of America [Ep. 12]
The Civil War's Moses Moment at Providence Spring—100 Bible Verses That Changed America
Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon
How an Iowa Waitress Became an Officer's Wife in Texas
The Unlikely Relationship Between Two of NYC's Finest
What I Learned About Faith and Friendship After 9/11
The Goo Goo Cluster: Nashville's "Official" Candy?
Paul Revere's Ride
The 1st Air Force Pilot at Ground Zero—and the Last to Know What Happened
A Museum Dedicated to Bad Art?
Wandering Worker: The American Hobo
A Thread Across the Ocean: The Story of the Transatlantic Cable
James Madison: Founding Father and Lawgiver
The Story of Bing Crosby and David Bowie's "Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth"
How the Tow Truck Came to Be
The Gettysburg Soldier Who Received The Medal of Honor 151 Years After His Death
Were the Irish the First Slaves in America?
"On The Wagon" & "Once In A Blue Moon" and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions (Pt. 16)
Brett Favre on Humility, Aging, and Faith (Pt. 4 of 5)
A 12-Year-Old Girl's Eight-Hour Car Chase to Get Elvis' Photo at a Gas Station
How a UCLA Student in the 70s Saved the Marx Brothers
The Story of Secretariat’s Owner, Penny Chenery (As Told by the Director of “Secretariat,” Randall Wallace)
The First Martyr of the Abolition Movement: 100 Bible Verses That Made America
Prohibition: Smashing Saloons and Breaking Barriers
America Had A President Before George Washington?
What I Learned From A Dying Patient
What Happened to Saturday Morning Cartoons?
Snowflake Bentley
Moral Injury: the Invisible Epidemic Affecting American Veterans
Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and the Summer of ‘41 (by George Will)
Left for Dead: A Soldier's Second Life After Vietnam
Indians, a Jew, and a Hotel Partnership
The USS Lexington: The Oldest Working Carrier in the Navy
The World's First Action Figure Museum
A Teen Remembers Her Hero Father Killed In The Line of Duty
The Improbable Story of How the Wright Brothers Changed World History
Abigail Adams and Her 7-Year-Old Son John Quincy Witnessed First-hand The Battle of Bunker Hill: 100 Bible Verses That Made America
Café du Monde
To Mow or Not to Mow: The History of Lawn Care
The Woman Who Snuck Into George Washington's Army
A Surprise Gift From a Late Wife to Her Widowed Husband
A Grave Escape
Brett Favre (Pt. 5 of 5): Playing in Green Bay, Rehab, and the Shocking Thing That Happened to Him Twice—Which Nobody Ever Knew!
The Day a Soviet Nuclear Attack Submarine Rammed an American Aircraft Carrier
A Listener Recounts Spotting Satellites In The Sky With His Father in The Mountains of New Mexico
A Museum Dedicated to Southern Jewish Heritage
The Unlikely Story of How "Georgia on My Mind" Came To Be
Robert Redford's "Jeremiah Johnson”: The Real Story of a Hollywood Mountain Man
“Nest Egg” & "No Dice" and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions (Pt. 15)
How A Losing Football Team Brought a Family Together
Hollywood Goes To War: Henry Fonda
Paychex Founder: No One Was Serving Small Businesses... So I Did!
Beauty in Brokenness: A Couple that Rebuilt their Marriage... and Now Dilapidated Cities
Her Mother Always Told Her She Was Strong... But Strength Isn't Always Enough
Ruger Firearms: The Story of a Great American Company
Reconnecting With My Absent Father Who Was Presumed Dead
The Story of a Miracle from the Man who Brought Us the World's Hottest Pepper
Accordionist Nancy 3 Hoffman—Yes, That's Her Middle Name—Tells the Story of Her....Umbrella Cover Museum
She Was Abandoned as a Child... Now She Saves Abandoned Babies
The Story of the Runaway Slave That Helped End the Fugitive Slave Act
A Police Chaplain Remembers His Mentor... And the Oklahoma City Bombing
Thomas Mundy Peterson: The Story of the 1st Black Voter in the United States
Life Beyond My Wildest Dreams: Professional Dog Walker
Did The Father of The Blues Really Sell His Soul to The Devil?
I Lived Through The Depression And Didn't Even Know It
ILLEGAL: Shooting Bunnies From A Motorboat
The Story of a Military Man-Turned Missionary Who Carries a Gun... In War-Torn Burma (And Sudan and Iraq)
The Story of One of West Point’s Greatest Graduation Speeches—to Graduating Jewish Cadets in 2023
The Story of Charleston: The Way Life Used to Be, And Perhaps, Is Supposed to Be
How George Washington's Bible Survived 9/11: 100 Bible Verses That Made America
The Frankie Avalon Story: The Man Who Influenced Music and Film for Three Decades
The Story of the 1st Medal of Honor Recipient (1861)
"Long Shot" and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions
The Story of America’s Most Famous Metaphor: “A City Upon A Hill”: 100 Bible Verses That Made America