Our American Stories
Ein Podcast von iHeartPodcasts
3376 Folgen
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EP137: The WWII Tragedy America Chose to Forget, I Lived Through The Depression And Didn’t Even Know It! and The 1st "Disneyland" on Lake Michigan's Shore, and The Man Behind It
Vom: 9.12.2021 -
EP136: Winston Churchill and the Iron Curtain and The Tone Deaf, Bad Poet Who Wrote The National Anthem
Vom: 8.12.2021 -
EP135: Magic Side Show Becomes Full-Time Job and How Piggly Wiggly Created the Modern Supermarket
Vom: 7.12.2021 -
EP134: Origin of Everyday Sayings, The Woman Introducing STEM Careers to Young Girls and Thomas Edison at Menlo Park
Vom: 6.12.2021 -
EP133: Tale of the Tapes: Engineer Guy Explains How VHS Beat Betamax, How The Pilsner Arrived, Survived and Thrived in America and John O’Neil On The First B-17 To Bomb Berlin
Vom: 3.12.2021 -
EP132: The Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions, From Fired High School Dropout... To Owning D.C.'s Best Taco Chain! and Why it Took One Man 7 Years to get his Car Back
Vom: 2.12.2021 -
EP131: “I Will Remember For The Both Of Us", A One Lawyer Town has it’s Ups and Downs and Why Are Bananas So Cheap?
Vom: 1.12.2021 -
EP130: The Holiday Inn Founder Who Had No Shame and The Two Men Who Ended Red Light Camera Tickets
Vom: 30.11.2021 -
EP129: ILLEGAL: Shooting Bunnies From A Motorboat?, The Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions and A Dad's Gift to His Children with Down Syndrome
Vom: 29.11.2021 -
EP128: Butch Hartman Drew My Childhood and Harvard's President Believed Books, Not Schooling, Were the Key To Education
Vom: 26.11.2021 -
EP127: Thanksgiving Hour
Vom: 25.11.2021 -
EP126: An Awfully Awkward Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Dinner with a Bosnian family, How the Master Chef Lost the Thanksgiving Turkey and Surprised by Hunger
Vom: 25.11.2021 -
EP125: The Evolution of Star Wars Merchandise and The B-25 In the Backyard
Vom: 24.11.2021 -
EP124: America Builds Up: The Bremerton Naval Yards, Why I Opened a Business for My Daughter and Under My Thumb
Vom: 23.11.2021 -
EP123: The Needle In The Hand, The Bigger the Bureaucracy, the Smaller the Customer and "Separate, but Equal": The Story of Supreme Injustice (Plessy v. Ferguson)
Vom: 22.11.2021 -
EP122: Searching For My Husband During WWII and My 48 Hours with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly
Vom: 19.11.2021 -
EP121: The Story of my Grandfather, The Company Without Corner Offices and The Doolittle Raids and the Battle of the Coral Sea
Vom: 18.11.2021 -
EP120: Lavagirl: Why She Quit Childhood Acting, Killed On Independence Day and They're One of the Youngest Couples in Their Community and Doing Aerobics... at 90?!
Vom: 17.11.2021 -
EP119: Brigade 2506: The Failed Bay of Pigs Invasion and The Salem Witch Trials and the American Puritans
Vom: 16.11.2021 -
EP118: Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions and The Last Men Out of Vietnam
Vom: 15.11.2021
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.