Our American Stories

1,092 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 640 ratings

There's no politics at Our American Stories, just stories. Daily bringing the campfire scene to your ears.

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Episodes

Secretariat and Former Homeless Woman Now Serving Homeless

May 08, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

A Day With Dad In The Delta, Hepburn, and "Leader Of The Band"

May 05, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

"House of the Rising Sun" and James Brown!

May 04, 2018 07:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

How Schmucks Birthed A Superhero...That Mutated Into American Mythology

May 03, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Hockey Fighters and Graffiti Artist vs. Che And Castro's Animal Farm

May 02, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

George Washington, Muddy Waters, Iwo Jima, and Mitch Hedberg!

May 01, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Golden Gate Bridge, Guitars For Vets, and Declaration of Independence

April 28, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 86.7 MB

Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, and "Lessons From a Third Grade Dropout"

April 27, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Ralph Lauren, Barbara Bush, and Thomas Paine

April 26, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Bud Abbott, "Georgia On My Mind," and Barbara Streisand

April 25, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

"Over The Rainbow" and The Mysterious Senate Candy Desk

April 24, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Harley-Davidson and Yeti Cooler Family Stories!

April 21, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

P.T. Barnum: The TRUE Story Of The REAL Greatest Showman

April 20, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Shel Silverstein, Jedediah Smith, and The Great Molasses Flood!

April 19, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

J.P. Morgan and Benjamin Franklin!

April 18, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Corrie ten Boom, Hemingway, Lewis and Clark, and Jack White!

April 17, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Challenging Zimbabwe's Dictators and The Godmother of Rock N' Roll

April 14, 2018 07:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Black Man Collects KKK Robes, What Makes Us Curious? and Kit Carson

April 12, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Leukemia Has A Purpose? and Dr. Asks Mother: "Who Do You Pray To? They Just Saved Your Son!"

April 11, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

"Go Rest High Up On That Mountain" and Caring For My Dying Husband Made Life Worth Living

April 11, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Merle Haggard, Shiloh, and "The Big Rock Candy Mountain"

April 07, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.9 MB

Guy Clark, Black Bart, and How My Dad's Cancer Saved Our Relationship

April 06, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 150 MB

Martin Luther King Assassinated 1968

April 05, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Only On NPR: Minimum Wage and Bureaucrats Attacking Citizens' Homes

April 04, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

My Drug Dealers Staged An Intervention for Me

April 03, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Magna Carta, Emerson, This Week In Music History, And More!

March 31, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Sam Walton's Walmart and John Jacob Astor: America's 1st Multimillionaire

March 30, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

David Mamet, Walt Whitman, Jim Thorpe, and Lewis and Clark!

March 29, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Rostropovich, A Hoaxer, And That Time The Marines Attacked Without Ammo...

March 28, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Railroads (Not Government) Created Time Zones and Robert Frost

March 27, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Mel Blanc: "The Man With 1,000 Voices"

March 24, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Lewis and Clark, Harriet Tubman, and Song "I Surrender All"

March 23, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

"I HAD Wanted To Be A Marine. Now, I Wanted To Be Home"

March 22, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Why We Click So Many Links...

March 21, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Are Kids From Rough Childhoods Doomed?

March 20, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

The History of West Point

March 17, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Jim Moran: Master Of The Publicity Stunt, Chris Evert, and RBG

March 16, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Einstein, Truett Cathy, and Can Kissing Your Dog Make You Sick?

March 15, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Actor John Cazale (Fredo) and the Curse Of Exercise Vows

March 14, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Couple Adopts 7 Siblings Separated Throughout 4 Foster Homes!

March 13, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Coach Dean Smith and Raising 2,000 Unwanted Children

March 10, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Arthur Vandenberg and George Jones

March 09, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Amazing Grace and College Boys Serving Girl With Cerebral Palsy

March 08, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Billy Graham, John Philip Souza, and Chris Evert

March 07, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Winning WWII: FDR's Friendship With The Devil (Stalin)

March 06, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Mary Lou Retton, Spinal Tap, and the Making of Goodfellas!

March 03, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour - 74.9 MB

Kindness, Frank Abagnale and Sammie Smith

March 02, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Andretti, Alexander Hamilton, Tom Waits, and Heartbreak Coffee

March 01, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

The Epic Story Of Mountain Man Kit Carson: Agent of "Manifest Destiny"

February 28, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour - 112 MB

Johnny Cash and Levi Strauss!

February 27, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Guests

Pat Williams

1 Episode

Books

Behind the Curtain

1 Episode

Paul Revere's Ride

1 Episode

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

1 Episode

The Screwtape Letters

1 Episode