Our American Stories

(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

(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!"

(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)

(Segment 1) Jeff Katz Letter To Daughter Julia, (2-4) Communists Threw His Piano Out The Window, And He STILL Became The GREATEST!, (5-6) A Nude Horse Is A Rude Horse, (7-8) That Time The Marines Attacked Without Ammo...

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(Segments 1-4) Mel Blanc: The Animated Story Behind "The Man With 1,000 Voices", (5) Jesse's "Shower Thoughts" and "This Week In Music History" (Mar. 18-24), (6) IBM Helps Kids to Graduate Debt-Free and Make Double the Median Income, (7-8) The Impact of Golfers on a Young Caddy: "I Too, Could Be Like Them"

(Segment 1) Giving Arms To A Warrior...While You're Also Telling Him To Make Peace?!, (2-4) The Pistol-Packin' Railroad Conductor: Harriet "Moses" Tubman, (5-7) Communists Took Everything...She Came To America With This Incredible Story!, (8) Story of A Song: "I Surrender All"

(Segments 1-2) "I HAD Wanted To Be A Marine. Now, I Wanted To Be Home", (3) California vs. French: How Did "Hamburger Nation" Revolutionize The Wine World?, (4) The Deadpan Comedy of Steven Wright, (5-7) The BEST TeacherHas a Handlebar Mustache?!, (8) Story Of A Song: "Over The Rainbow"

(Segments 1-3) One Mom vs. The Machine: The Teacher Who Fought Back, (4) 54 Things I Learned in 54 Years, (5-8) Tim Wu's Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads...Or, Why We Click So Many Links

(Segments 1-2) The War In Ben Franklin's Home, (3-4) Are Kids From Rough Childhoods Doomed?, (5-8) All-American Sharks?

(Segments 1-4) Hear the History of West Point from Two Soldier/Professors, (5-6) Want to Destroy a Room to Relieve Your Stress?, (7-8) Bill Armstrong

(Segment 1) Jim Moran, Master Of The Publicity Stunt, (2-3) Unions Physically Threatened Him...Then They Threatened His Company, (4) Chris Evert: Cinderella In Sneakers, (5-8) American Dreamers: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

(Segments 1-2) You've Never Been to a Coffee Shop Like This!, (3-4) Truett Cathy And Chick-fil-A, (5-7) What Made Einstein Einstein?, (8) Burning Question: Can Kissing Your Dog Make You Sick?