Our American Stories

(Segment 1) Energy is Life: How The Incandescent Light Bulb Changed America, (2-3) Pastor Broadway: "I'm Not Walking Away From These Children Anymore", (4) Fighting Founders: The Alien and Sedition Acts, (5-7) "I'm The Dentist In The Wheelchair", (8) Healthy Heart Means A Healthy Brain?

(Segments 1-2) A Brief History of Nikola Tesla, (3-4) Meeting My Absent Father, (5-7) The Millionaire Piano Tuner, Trailer Park Owner and Bovine Semen Distributor, (8) What Im Gonna Tell You Is Gonna Make You Cry

(Segment 1) The Best Worst Counterfeiter in American History, (2) Meet Michael Angelo Ruffino, Professional Gondolier, (3) History Guy: The Thrilling Tale of How Robert Smalls Seized a Confederate Ship and Sailed it to Freedom, (4) Do NOT Threaten The Staff At The Psych Ward!, (5-8) Girl with a Gun: The Annie Oakley Story

(Segment 1) Ernest Hemingway's "A Day's Wait", (2-3) The Middle Aged Man Who Started Over, (4) One Small Business Saves A Small Town!, (5-8) Confessions Of An Undercover Agent

(Segments 1-2) Reconnecting With My Absent Father Who Was Presumed Dead, (3-4) Sturm, Ruger and Co., (5-8) DNA Test Changes A Family

(Segment 1) The Lost Wallet And Stolen Mustang Stories, (2) Don't Wear Slippers to a Job Interview, (3-4) The Time America Put Its National Treasures on a Cross-Country Train, (5) Playing Cards in a Dumpster, (6-8) How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain

(Segment 1-3) My Business Failure Allowed Me to Reconnect With My Father, (4) Bob McLalan: Thoughts Among the Graves, (5-8) Joe Moglia: The Former TD Ameritrade CEO-Turned Intern At Nebraska Football

(Segment 1-3) New Citizens, Breathing New Life...Into America! (4th of July), (4) New Citizens, Breathing New Life...Into America! (4th of July), (5) How A 17-Year-Old Designed the Current US Flag for a School Project And Got a B-, (6-8) John Adams and the Boston Massacre Trial: The Moment That Defined A Man And A Nation (d 1826)

(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