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Our American Stories tells stories that aren’t being told. Positive stories about generosity and courage, resilience and redemption, faith and love. Stories about the past and present. And stories about ordinary Americans who do extraordinary things each and every day. Stories from our listeners about their lives. And their history. In that pursuit, we hope we’ll be a place where listeners can refresh their spirit, and be inspired by our stories.
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Signup to Generate a PitchOur American Stories tells stories that aren’t being told. Positive stories about generosity and courage, resilience and redemption, faith and love. Stories about the past and present. And stories about ordinary Americans who do extraordinary things each and every day. Stories from our listeners about their lives. And their history.
Recent episodes include "The DiMaggio Brothers: Three Ballplayers, One American Dream" (26 October 2026, 20 minutes), "My Dad Never Made Much Money, But He Was a Very Wealthy Man" (26 October 2026, 10 minutes), and "When I First Saw a Satellite Cross the Night Sky" (26 October 2026, 8 minutes).
Our American Stories publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 17 minutes across more than 1,000 episodes.
Booking probability for Our American Stories is 40%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Our American Stories requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Our American Stories's contact route on record: verified email.
Our American Stories is a society show with more than 1,000 episodes published.
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Our American Stories
On this episode of Our American Stories, Joe DiMaggio became an American icon, but he was only one of three brothers who made it to the major leagues. Raised in a large Italian immigrant family near San Francisco...
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Chet Leuliette came home from World War II with little money and no high school diploma, but with a determination to build a better life for his family. He sold potato chips...
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Richard Muniz was not yet five years old when heavy rain stranded his family overnight at an old railroad station in the mountains of northern New Mexico. When the storm finally...
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Al Capone became the most famous gangster in America, but Laurence Bergreen argues that his rise would have been almost unimaginable without Prohibition. Born to an Italian...
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On this episode of Our American Stories, in the spring of 1961, McDonald County opened its highway map and discovered that it had simply vanished. The resort towns that depended on summer travelers were nowhere to be...
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On this episode of Our American Stories, in 1819, as the Missouri Crisis stirred national debate over slavery and westward expansion, a private conversation between John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun became something...
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On this episode of Our American Stories, when 16-year-old Hector Boiardi arrived at Ellis Island from Italy in 1914, he couldn't have imagined that his face would one day appear on supermarket shelves across America...
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Rudyard Kipling became one of the most famous writers of his age, giving the world The Jungle Book , Just So Stories , “Gunga Din,” and “If.” In 1907, he...
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On this episode of Our American Stories, America entered World War I late, but its arrival helped change the course of the conflict. By the fall of 1918, more than a million American soldiers were fighting through the...
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On this episode of Our American Stories, in 2017, Rhode Island grower Joe Jutras set a world record with a green squash weighing 2,118 pounds, earning a place among the largest fruits and vegetables ever grown. Reaching...
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On this episode of Our American Stories, you may not know Tommy Tedesco’s name, but chances are you know his guitar. As one of the most in-demand session musicians in Los Angeles, Tedesco played on thousands of...
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On this episode of Our American Stories, for generations of Boston Red Sox fans, heartbreak became part of the experience. After winning the World Series in 1918, the team sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees and went...
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On this episode of Our American Stories, in 1657, Governor Peter Stuyvesant ordered residents of New Netherland to help enforce his campaign against religious dissenters, especially Quakers. Thirty residents of Flushing...
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Deborah Sampson wanted to serve her country, but women were barred from joining the Continental Army. So in 1782, the Massachusetts woman put on men’s clothing, enlisted...
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On this episode of Our American Stories, why do police departments in different parts of the country operate so differently? Former LAPD Sergeant Bob Alaniz argues that the answer goes back to two competing traditions...
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Francesca Cabrini dreamed of becoming a missionary in China. Instead, Pope Leo XIII sent the Italian nun west to the United States, where thousands of Italian immigrants were...
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On this episode of Our American Stories, in 1803, Thomas Jefferson sent Robert Livingston and James Monroe to France hoping to secure New Orleans. Instead, Napoleon offered them something far bigger: the entire...
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Millions of Americans first learned about the tragic fate of the USS Indianapolis from Quint's famous monologue in Spielberg's 1975 classic, Jaws . While the film certainly took...
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Andrew Thompson, our regular contributor, returns with another installment of our ongoing series exploring the curious origins of everyday expressions. Drawing from his book Hair...
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Milton Hershey failed again and again before he ever became America's chocolate king. After a struggling candy shop in Philadelphia, bankruptcy, and years spent learning from...
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Executive Director of Strategy, Innovation, and Effectiveness, University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Pathology
Research Professor of Church History and the John and Sharon Yeats Endowed Chair of Baptist Studies, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Chief Washington correspondent for Newsmax, Newsmax
Senior Cyber Software Engineer, World Outreach Church
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