Our American Stories

(Segments 1-4) Indians, Nature, And A Bear: Jedediah Smith, Stuff Of Legend, (5) Great Molasses Flood, (6) Burning Question: Why Do Some People Have Foot Odor?, (7-8) The Shel Silverstein Story: From "The Giving Tree" to "A Boy Named Sue"

(Segments 1-4) From Electricity To The Titanic: The Story of J.P. Morgan (b. 1837), (5-8) The First American: Benjamin Franklin (d. 1790)

(Segment 1) Hemingway: "A Day's Wait", (2) I Gave My Dog an IQ Test, (3) Lewis and Clark #24, (4) Jack White: The Musical Renaissance Man, (5-8) Corrie ten Boom's "Hiding Place" (b. and d. On This Day In History)

(Segments 1-4) They Burnt Down My House, Beat Me Up, and Killed My Family, (5-7) The Godmother Of Rock N' Roll: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, (8) She Raised Four Children On Her Own!

(Segment 1-2) Daryl Davis: Black Collector Of KKK Robes, (3-4) Why? What Makes Us Curious?, (5-8) The Epic Story Of Mountain Man Kit Carson: Agent of "Manifest Destiny"

(Segment 1) "We Take Our Work Seriously, But We Don't Take Ourselves Seriously", (2-4) Leukemia Has A Purpose?, (5-7) The Green Beret That Other Green Berets Look Up To, (8) Dr. Asks Mother: "Who Do You Pray To? They Just Saved Your Son!"

(Segment 1) Story of a Song: Go Rest High Up On That Mountain, (2-3) How To Make Perennial Sellers, (4) Caring For My Dying Husband Made Life Worth Living, (5-8) Coach Dean Smith: So Much More Than Basketball

(Segments 1-4) The Merle Haggard Story: The Man, The Musician, (5-6) No Place Of Peace - Shiloh, 1862, (7) Jesse's "This Week In Music History" (April 1-7), (8) Story Of A Song: "The Big Rock Candy Mountain"

(Segment 1) Guy Clark: A Story With A Guitar, (2-4) "We Are All Jews Here", (5) How My Dad's Cancer Saved Our Relationship, (6-8) Black Bart: Americas Most Successful And Notorious Gentleman Bandit

(Segments 1-4) Martin Luther King Assassinated 1968, (5) The Lost Wallet And Stolen Mustang Stories, (6-8) Love McDonald's Fries?! Well, YOU Can Thank...THIS Immigrant

(Segment 1) Jesse's World: Livestock; Only On NPR: Minimum Wage, (2) cont: Only On NPR: Minimum Wage, (3) Take A Breath: In Praise Of The One-Second Pause, (4) They Challenged Their Government, And Their Homes Were Attacked, (5-8) One Amazing 30-Year-Old vs. Metastatic Breast Cancer And Bureaucracies

(Segments 1-4) My Drug Dealers Staged An Intervention for Me, (5-6) Whats Holding America Together? Churches and McDonalds, (7) The Story of Subway's Footlong Lawsuit, (8) "Am I Pretty Today?"

(Segment 1) My Quirk: Nick Zagotta On Train, (2-3) Magna Carta: "The Birth Certificate of The Rule of Law", (4) Dr. Bob: "We Hire People Who Want to Do Exactly What We Need Them To Do"; Jesse's "This Week In Music History" (Mar. 25-31), (5-6) Born Into Slavery In...New Jersey?, (7) 92 Years Old and Still Dating?, (8) Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self Reliance

(Segments 1-4) Sam Walton And His Walmart (b. 1918), (5-8) John Jacob Astor: America's 1st Multimillionaire (d. 1848)

(Segments 1-4) You Know His Work and His Writing. You Just Don't Know His Name. (David Mamet), (5) Walt Whitman: Pioneers! O Pioneers!, (6) A Lewis and Clark Expedition WITHOUT Sacagawea?, (7-8) Jim Thorpe: Native American, All-American (d. 1953)