Our American Stories
A podcast by iHeartPodcasts
3376 Episodes
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EP256: In His Father's Shadow, From High School Dropout... To Owning D.C.'s Best Taco Chain! and Why Are Bananas So Cheap? (History Guy)
Published: 4/11/2022 -
EP255: Our Home Became Tidier After Having Four Sons, Burrito Restaurant Offers Job To Burglar and The Wizard of Menlo Park
Published: 4/8/2022 -
EP254: How American History Created the American Superhero
Published: 4/8/2022 -
EP253: Reconciling Dad the Farmer and Dad the Veteran Pilot, How The Civil War Openly Became about Slavery and Why it Took One Man 7 Years to Get His Car Back
Published: 4/7/2022 -
EP252: This Man Grows Pumpkins That Weigh a TON and Tom Morton Goes to Marine Boot Camp
Published: 4/7/2022 -
EP251: Growing Up Rural: A Tale About Stinky Boots, The Bigger the Bureaucracy, the Smaller the Customer and The Tone Deaf, Bad Poet Who Wrote The National Anthem
Published: 4/6/2022 -
EP250: The True Story of A Desert Storm “Top Gun” Pilot and St. Louie Louie: Have Pool Cue, Will Travel
Published: 4/6/2022 -
EP249: The Story of My Grandfather, The Landscape Management Company Powered by Goats and I Found Out I Was Adopted at 30
Published: 4/5/2022 -
EP248: Souping Up Her Subaru Started Her Career and WWI War Pigeon Receives Medal Of Bravery
Published: 4/5/2022 -
EP247: Wilber and his Comical Friendship with an Empty Nester, South Carolina's Greatest Revolutionary Heroine and How a Grandson Helped His Grandmother Find Her Long Lost Daughter
Published: 4/4/2022 -
EP246: An Ordinary Civil War Cloth With An Extraordinary Story, The Man Who Paints Murals For Our Veterans and How One Woman was Surprised By Her Own Hunger
Published: 4/4/2022 -
EP245: Bill Rhodes: A Memphis Boy's Road to Autozone and Charles Kemper: Chippewa Falls' 100-Year-Old Doctor
Published: 4/1/2022 -
EP244: The Time When The ACLU and NRA Agreed, The Biggest Chicken In The World? and You Must Get To Know Your Community Before You Can Serve It
Published: 4/1/2022 -
EP243: Getting to Know Your Angry Old Neighbor Takes Time and How a UCLA Undergrad in the 70s Saved the Marx Brothers
Published: 3/31/2022 -
EP242: The Origin of Everyday Sayings, These Guys Use Dungeons and Dragons as a Therapy Tool and Walt Whitman Served the Union... And the Confederacy!
Published: 3/31/2022 -
EP241: 911 At Ease International Saved This Police Officer’s Career and The World's First Action Figure Museum
Published: 3/30/2022 -
EP240: The Silver Kings and the "Big Bonanza" and The Man Who Brought Couponing to the Digital Age
Published: 3/30/2022 -
EP239: "I'll Fly Away" Composer Honored by Daughters and The Cuban Refugee Who Created the Coors Light Silver Bullet Can
Published: 3/29/2022 -
EP238: Sunk at Pearl Harbor: The USS Utah and Oklahoma and The Story of King George III
Published: 3/29/2022 -
EP237: Engineer Guy Explains How VHS Beat Betamax, The Disastrous Great Lakes Storm of 1913 and The Neon Museum
Published: 3/28/2022
Our American Stories tells stories that aren’t being told. Positive stories about generosity and courage, resilience and redemption, faith and love. Stories about the past and present. And stories about ordinary Americans who do extraordinary things each and every day. Stories from our listeners about their lives. And their history. In that pursuit, we hope we’ll be a place where listeners can refresh their spirit, and be inspired by our stories.