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Every generation of Americans has been faced with the same question: how should we live? Our endlessly interesting answers have created The American Story. The weekly episodes published here stretch from battlefields and patriot graves to back roads, school yards, bar stools, city halls, blues joints, summer afternoons, old neighborhoods, ball parks, and deserted beaches—everywhere you find Americans being and becoming American. They are true stories about what it is that makes America beautiful, what it is that makes America good and therefore worthy of love. Each episode aims in some small way to awaken the better angels of our nature, to welcome us into and encourage us to enrich the great American story.

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God’s in His Heaven

2022/06/21

Twenty-Twenty seems to have spread like a virus into 2021. A third of the way through the year and still across the country citizens bludgeoned into isolation, locked in their homes by the latest mandate, huddled around computer screens and cell phones hour by hour awaiting announcement of the next tribulation. It was too much to take in; disorienting to the soul. We fled in desperation to the free state of Florida.

How Sleep the Brave

2022/06/14

Back in that spring and summer of 1775, when he was just seven years old and the War for Independence swirled around him and his family, John Quincy Adams remembered, “[my mother] taught me to repeat daily after the Lord’s prayer [the Ode of Collins] before rising from bed."

Days to Remember

2022/06/07

Among many days worthy of remembrance, one that is often forgotten is June 8, 1789, when James Madison, in the first Congress under the newly ratified Constitution, addressed the House in a historic speech. The government had been operating for only a few months. Several states had submitted proposed amendments to the Constitution which Madison encouraged Congress to consider and worked to consolidate and draft himself. The result would be what the world now knows as the Bill of Rights.

John Wayne

2022/05/31

John Wayne began life as Marion Morrison in Winterset, Iowa. After his family made its way to L.A., and an injury sidelined him from USC football, he began working full-time as a prop man for movie studios. His natural strength, good spirit, good looks, and determination carried him through nearly a decade of B-movies before he became a star. Thirty-five years after his death, he was still listed as one of America’s five favorite movie stars; he became “indivisibly associated with America itself.”

Known But to God

2022/05/24

More than 4 million visitors come to Arlington National Cemetery every year from across America and around the world and, unless they have their own personal visit to make, the thing they most want to do is to climb the hill to the high ground of the Memorial Amphitheater and visit the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

I Kiss the Ground

2022/05/17

One of America’s greatest and most beloved film directors, Frank Capra, was just six years old when he arrived in New York on a steamer from Sicily with his poor Italian immigrant parents in 1903. Growing up, he worked hard, excelled in school, and fell in love with American freedom and the American common man giving us such films as “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” and “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

Ninety Percent Mental

2022/05/10

Great American philosopher, Lorenzo Pietro Berra, more commonly known as Yogi Berra, was a baseball legend. As a player with the New York Yankees, he won Ten World Series championships, with 18 All-Star games, three Most Valuable Player Awards, 358 home runs and 1,430 runs batted in, which earned him a place in the Hall of Fame. After his playing career, he was one of a handful of managers to reach the World Series in both leagues. But Yogi Berra is best known for —Yogi-isms.

Beauty and Brains

2022/05/03

Hedy Lamarr was born to Jewish parents in Austria in 1914. She became an actress and married by the time she was 20. In 1937, she escaped her domineering husband and rising anti-Semitism in Europe, and made her way to America, where she became a Hollywood star celebrated as the most beautiful woman in the world. During WWII, in hopes of aiding America’s war effort, Hedy invented a technology that would eventually be used in cell phones, GPS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi. She had beauty and brains in spades.

God Bless America

2022/04/26

Israel Beilin was five years old when he and his family arrived in New York and, like the rest of the family, he spoke only Yiddish. With the help of Ellis Island clerks, printing accidents, and his own American ambition, his name would become Irving Berlin, and he would become a master of the American language and one of America’s greatest songwriters.

The Great Author of America

2022/04/19

Why “the finest Shakespeare collection in the world” is in Washington, D.C.

Paul Revere’s Ride

2022/04/12

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow has been called, “the most popular poet in American history.” When Longfellow wrote, few Americans remained who had a living memory of the American Revolution. With his poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride” he succeeded in preserving part of that heroic memory in verse for many generations to come, the way Homer did for ancient Greeks, or Shakespeare for Englishmen in more recent times.

One Iron

2022/04/05

Ben Hogan and “the purest stroke I’ve ever seen”

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ViktorGee 2022/06/16

How Sleep the Brave

Thank You Sir for your history you pose to us in these beautiful stories. Please continue as we lose so much of this. I’m sure that is the root ca...

★★★★★

Lucy Grace Kjerstad 2022/06/07

Family member

Good job thanks for the beautiful words about Amazing heart of USA

★★★★★

Class of 82, 82 Rules!!! 2022/05/11

Short, concise and very interesting historical stories

I really enjoy listening to these short stories on my way to work. They are always insightful and interesting.

★★★★★

Montana View 2022/05/10

Feel good podcast

Love this podcast, always interesting

★★★★★

1Icantremember 2022/04/16

Inspired, Inspiring

Thank you, Chris Flannery. Thank you, Claremont Institute.

★★★★★

ryanisfast 2022/04/06

Beautiful story telling

This is a beautiful example of historical storytelling. Can’t recommend this show enough.

★★★★★

Burton bltc 2022/04/06

8 minutes

One Iron narration is pure listening pleasure.

★★★★★

Criminal 89 2022/03/25

Lt Murphy

So proud to be an American 2A 1A🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

★★★★★

Jenrinindy 2022/03/11

Every American should listen to this podcast.

Restore the love of Country - when we hear all that has been sacrificed and the costs of Liberty as well as the opportunity that is alive because Amer...

★★★★★

BAMDDS 2022/02/24

Enjoyed

Best 6 minutes/ EVER!

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