Our American Stories

(Segments 1-4) My Drug Dealers Staged An Intervention for Me, (5-7) Communists Took Everything...She Came To America With This Incredible Story!, (8) 54 Things I Learned in 54 Years

(Segments 1-3) The Godmother Of Rock N' Roll: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, (4) He Couldn't Have Known...That His Investment Would Save His Mother-In-Law's Life, (5) Great Molasses Flood, (6) Alive Inside, Bringing Music to Dementia, (7) Story of a Song: Big Rock Candy Mountain, (8) The Compton Perfectionist Who Mainstreamed Rap

(Segment 1) A Fathers Note to His Timeless DaughterWho Functions At A Toddler Level, (2-4) A $92,000 Penalty For...A Seatbelt Violation!, (5) Dancing With A Demon, (6-7) Life Expectancy Has Exploded By 4 Decades...Why?! How?!, (8) Jack White: The Musical Renaissance Man

(Segments 1-2) Wolfman Jack, (3-4) The Boss Who Gave His Company To His Employees, (5-8) Rodney Dangerfield: Nothing But Respect For The Man Who Got "No Respect"

(Segments 1-4) Star Wars' Composer John Williams (b. 1932), (5-8) Jesse James: Bandit, Confederate, Murderer, Hero

(Segments 1-4) The Henry Steinway Story (d. 1871), (5-7) "Pistol" Pete Maravich (NCAA Point Record, 1970), (8) How TV Dinners Liberated Women

(Segment 1) Thomas Paine: Tyranny Is Not Easily Conquered (Read by Orson Welles), (2-3) McLalan Files: Boxing, (4) Concrete Shaping Our World Since Roman Times, (5-6) The Silver Kings and the "Big Bonanza", (7) Story of a Song: Pink's "Let's Get The Party Started", (8) They Challenged Their Government, And Their Homes Were Attacked

(Segments 1-2) The Man Who Defined American Fashion, (3) Skip Gianopulos: A Father Of Two Daughters With Special Needs, (4) Story of a Song: Paul Simon's "Graceland", (5-8) How Schmucks Birthed A Superhero...That Mutated Into American Mythology

(Segment 1) The Story of Song: The Ballad Billy Joel Wrote For His Little Girl, (2) How The Elevator BRAKE Shaped Our Modern World, (3-4) Rosa Parks: The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement (b. 1913), (5) High-Fives are Saving Feline Lives, (6-8) John Adams and the Boston Massacre Trial: The Moment That Defined A Man And A Nation

(Segment 1) Vince Lombardi Retires (1968), (2) Got Junk?, (3) The Importance Of Friends, (4) Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self Reliance, (5) My Parents Are Gone, But Their Traditions Aren't, (6) How Rick Rubin Resurrected The Career of Johnny Cash, (7-8) Companies Are Chasing After This School's Students For...Their Character!

(Segment 1) Story of a Song: Bill Withers' "Grandma's Hands", (2-4) Fighting For A Dream: Hockey Enforcers, (5) Heaven is Beautiful, (6-8) The Song That Shouldn't Exist

(Segment 1) Oskar Schindler: An Unlikely Hero, (2-3) How To Make Perennial Sellers, (4) Technology and Music: Autotune vs. Imperfection, (5) The Lone Ranger Debuts 1933, (6-8) The Family Who Sold Pork, And Fought For Civil Rights

(Segments 1-2) Oprah: An American Story (b. 1954), (3-4) The Birth of Coca~Cola, (5-6) Rod Serling and the Twilight Zone, (7) Robert Frost (d. 1963), (8) The Great Jerry Maguire Pyramid

(Segment 1) Space Shuttle "Challenger" Disaster (1986), (2-3) Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football?, (4) Making "Dumb and Dumber", (5-8) The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Ti

(Segment 1) The Pakistani Immigrant Who Found His American Dream Within 24 Hours, (2) Casey Jones, (3) I Shall Not Fail Those With Whom I Serve, (4) I Shall Not Fail Those With Whom I Serve, (5) YETI: How 2 Bros Turned a $300 Cooler Into a $450 Million Cult Brand, (6-7) Mike Judge's Beavis and Butthead: A Story for Lovers AND Haters, (8) Story Of A Song: Steely Dan's "Peg"

(Segment 1) "Song of Myself", a poem by Walt Whitman, (2-3) When A Marine Meets His Long-Lost Sister With Down Syndrome, (4) This Teacher Took down a Shooter with His Bare Hands, (5-8) The Epic Story Of Mountain Man Kit Carson: Agent of "Manifest Destiny"

(Segments 1-2) Gold Rush Queen: Nellie Cashman, (3) Uncle Nearest: The Ex-Slave Who Taught Jack Daniel About Whiskey, (4) Who Will This Be To Me?, (5-8) Behind The Curtain: The Johnny Carson Story (d. 2005)

(Segment 1) Surviving a Shark Attack: Tiffany Johnson's Story, (2-3) Rob Corbin on Forgiveness, (4) Benedict Arnold: From American Hero to the Greatest of Villains, (5-8) Crude Blessings: An American Oilman's Story

(Segment 1-4) Exposing The Media's Makeover Of Martin Luther King Jr., (5) Pinks, (6-7) Sleep Apnea Destroys More Marriages Than Adultery or Finances...Until Now!, (8) The Great Gatsby

(Segment 1-2) "I Cursed The Day That Sgt. Calvert Was Born", (3) "Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!" Our Favorite Stooge: Curly Howard, (4) So Much Better Than Disney's? A.A. Milne's Winnie-The-Pooh, (5-6) I Wanted To Understand Why Racists Hated Me...So I Befriended Klansmen., (7-8) Like a Rock: The Story of Rock City