Our American Stories

(Segments 1-4) Billy Joel: The Story Of A 33-Hit Wonder (b. 1949), (5) A Day With Dad In The Delta, (6-7) How Did coach Chuck Daly Soften Dennis Rodman?, (8) "We Eat, Breathe, and Drink Sand"

(Segment 1) The Lost Wallet And Stolen Mustang Stories, (2-4) Black Bart: Americas Most Successful And Notorious Gentleman Bandit, (5) How My Dad's Cancer Saved Our Relationship, (6-8) "We Are All Jews Here"

(Segments 1-4) Secretariat: More Than A Horse?, (5-6) Former Homeless Woman Now Serving The Homeless!, (7) Meet Lawnchair Larry..., (8) I Felt Detached About My Family's Holocaust Story Until...

(Segment 1) A Day With Dad In The Delta, (2-4) You'll Be Shocked By How Audrey Hepburn Became A Star!, (5) "Leader Of The Band": Dan Fogelberg's Love Letter To His Father, (6) What If Feds Told Farmers How Much Wheat They Could Grow?, (7) Final Thoughts: Baptism In The ICU?, (8) Jesse's "This Week In Music History" (April 29-May 5)

(Segments 1-2) James Brown: The Story of the Hardest Working Man In Showbusiness, (3) What Hamilton Teaches Us About The Importance Of Anonymous Speech, (4) Story of a Song: House of the Rising Sun, (5-6) Should We Pray For Our Country?, (7-8) A Crooked Cop, An Innocent Man, And An Unlikely Journey Of Forgiveness And Friendship

(Segments 1-4) How Schmucks Birthed A Superhero...That Mutated Into American Mythology, (5-6) Walking Off the Map of the Known World, (7-8) Her Son Died From Counterfeit Drugs

(Segments 1-3) One Mom vs. The Machine: The Teacher Who Fought Back, (4) Cuban Graffiti Artist "El Sexto" vs. Che And Castro's Animal Farm, (5) A Fathers Note to His Timeless DaughterWho Functions At A Toddler Level, (6-8) Fighting For A Dream: Hockey Enforcers

(Segments 1-4) George Washington's Story: Inaugurated (This Day) 1789, (5) Which Foods Make the Best Bedtime Snack?, (6) Muddy Waters: Father Of Chicago Blues (d. 1983), (7) The "Boys" Of Iwo Jima, (8) Mitch Hedberg: A Shy Alchemist Who Turned Sentences Into Comedy Gold

(Segment 1) Guitars For Vets, (2-3) The 33-Year-Old Who Wrote The Declaration in 2 Weeks, (4) Jesse's "This Week In Music History" (April 22-28), (5) Golden Gate Bridge Completed (This Day 1937), (6-8) The Real Story of Frank Abagnale

(Segments 1-2) Lucille Ball: You'll LOVE Her Story! (d. 1989), (3-4) The Comedy Of Carol Burnett (b. 1933), (5-6) "I Cursed The Day That Sgt. Calvert Was Born", (7-8) Dr. Rick Rigsby's "Lessons From a Third Grade Dropout"

(Segments 1-2) The Man Who Defined American Fashion, (3-4) Thomas Paine Common Sense, (5-8) Final Thoughts: Barbara Bush

(Segment 1) Dancing With A Demon, (2) "Who's On First?": The Bud Abbott Story (d. 1974), (3) "The Patient I Failed", (4) Story of a Song: Georgia on My Mind, (5-8) The Barbara Streisand Story

(Segments 1-3) "I Had Two Baby Mommas.... It's Not Like I Read About It In A Book", (4) Story Of A Song: "Over The Rainbow", (5) The Mysterious Senate Candy Desk, (6-8) How Could It Happen To MY Kid?

(Segments 1-4) Harley and the Davidsons: How A Bicycle Became A Hog (Bill D. d. 1937), (5) The Story of the Family Who Created "Yeti", (5-8) Imagine Freshman Year of College Being...FREE!!

(Segments 1-4) P.T. Barnum: The TRUE Story Of The REAL Greatest Showman, (5) Red Swingline Stapler, (6-8) Meet The PRIVATE Union Boss...With a PUBLIC Pension!

(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"