Our American Stories

(Segment 1) Walmart Open Call: The Praline Queen with a HUGE Fan Base, (2-3) The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington, (4) The Child Inventor Determined to Save Babies from Overheated Cars, (5-8) Joshua Texidor: A Tale of Two Cities

(Segments 1-3) The Godmother Of Rock N' Roll: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, (4) History Guy: Screwdriver Wars, (5-8) Bill Daniels: The Father of Cable TV (b. 1920)

(Segment 1) The Man Who Spent $35MM Fighting A $400k Fake Wine Fraud, (2) Tempest Tours: A Stormy, Sightseeing Vacation, (3) How "Firefall's" Sandy Ficca Met His Wife, (4) The Compton Perfectionist Who Mainstreamed Rap, (5-8) Vietnam Special Forces Vet on the "Privileges of War"

(Segments 1-3) The Man Who Adopted 3,000 People, (4) The Cloud-Juicing Entrepreneur Who Bottles Rainwater, (5) Danny Sacrificed Self (and His Bone Marrow) For a Stranger, (6-8) The Big Four and the Transcontinental Railroad

(Segment 1) The Child I Didn't Adopt, (2) History Guy: That Time Pepsi Had the 6th Largest Navy in the World, (3) Family Sends Five Sons To War, (4) Why The 20th Century Was The Most Peaceful Despite Two World Wars, (5-8) Kay Coles James: From Welfare and Public Housing, To The Halls of Power

(Segments 1-3) Relationship Story Hour: The O'Briens Face the Past for Their Future's Sake, (4) Tom Waits' Story Of A Song: "I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You", (5-8) The Story of 20th Century America...Through Sneakers?

(Segments 1-2) "Firefall" Drummer Sandy Ficca, (3-4) Hannibal, Missouri: The Town that Created Mark Twain, (5-7) How a Refugee Went from Janitor to President, (8) A Grave Escape

(Segment 1) Students Dont Grade Themselves, so Why Do the Police?, (2) Energy is Life: Marian's Story, (3) Meet "Captain Crunch", (4) Luis Tomatis: The Immigrant Who Helped Transform Grand Rapids Michigan, (5-8) The Gangbanger-Turned Death Row Chaplain

(Segment 1) Edie Hand: Strength in Loneliness is Still Loneliness, (2) The MOH Recipient Who Crashed His Plane On Purpose To Get To His Downed Wingman, (3-4) A Crooked Cop, An Innocent Man, And An Unlikely Journey Of Forgiveness And Friendship, (5-8) The Wrecking Crew's Tommy Tedesco: The Most Heard Guitarist Youve Never Heard Of (Father's Day)

(Segment 1) Forgiving My Worthless Father (Father's Day), (2) Letters to my Son: Giving, (3-4) A Son's Eulogy for His Biker Father, (5) How My Dad's Cancer Saved Our Relationship (Father's Day), (6) Their Own Mother Sold Them To Pedophiles! But Then..., (7) The Father Privilege: Lee Habeeb's Salute to His Dad (And All Good Dads) on Father's Day, (8) Dad With Cancer Tells Kids: You Are My Best Investments

(Segment 1) King Solomon, Town's Grave Digging Drunk-Turned Hero, (2-3) These Guys Use Dungeons and Dragons as a Therapy Tool, (4) Walt Whitman Served the Union... And the Confederate!, (5) Duck Tape Saves Lives, (6-7) From Fired High School Dropout... To Owning D.C.'s Best Taco Chain!, (8) Yes, We Really Do Want to Have a Fifth Child

(Segments 1-3) Relationship Story Hour: Dawn and Casey's Battle with Themselves, (4) Who Will This Be To Me?, (5-8) Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in WWII

(Segments 1-2) Gold Rush Queen: Nellie Cashman, (3-4) She's The Daughter Of Chick-fil-A's Founder, But That's Not Who She REALLY IS, (5-7) An Ordinary WWII Soldiers Story: Angelo Constantine, (8) How a Fake Doctor Ran Carnival Sideshows and Saved Thousands of Infants and Changed Medical History

(Segments 1-3) After 50 Years of Silence, Korean War Pilot Shares His Top-Secret Mission, (4) Mark's Tribute to His "Quiet Hero" Son Who's the Father of 3 Boys, (5-8) Henry Ford: The Father of the Automobile

(Segment 1) The Humble Carrot, (2-3) Does Exercise Make You Smarter?, (4) Jesse's Investigation Into Robert Johnson's Crossroads, (5-7) Hedy Lamarr: The 40s "Bombshell" Mind Behind Secure WiFi, GPS And Bluetooth, (8) The Forgotten Grave