The American Story
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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 7 minutes
- Episodes
- 181
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2022
Of Oranges and Shakespearean Dreams
This story is the third in a series of seven about an immigrant boy who became my good friend and holds a special place in the history of the Claremont Institute. For the rest of his life, oranges wo…
The Crisis of Man
This story is the second in a series of seven about an immigrant boy who became my good friend and holds a special place in the history of the Claremont Institute. It was spring, 1946, and Albert Cam…
Born American
This story is the first in a series of seven about an immigrant boy who became my good friend and holds a special place in the history of the Claremont Institute. “Why are we going to America?” . . .…
All of You on the Good Earth
President Kennedy told a special joint session of Congress that it was “time for a great new American Enterprise”
Go West!
The Oregon Trail was the superhighway of the early American West
Simple Truth
The Congress of the United States named him “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen”
Teddy Ballgame
If there was ever a real-life John Wayne — or the character Wayne played so well — it was Ted Williams
An Evening on the Benjamin Franklin
John Quincy Adams and a pioneer reflect on the Northwest Territory and American freedom
Friends
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." This episode is in loving memory of Merle Whitis.
Daring Young Men in Their Flying Machines
How airmail became woven into the fabric of American life
The Greatness of Washington
"Our history is but a transcript of his claims on our gratitude”
The Great Author of America
Why “the finest Shakespeare collection in the world” is in Washington, D.C
We Are All Americans
“Savage Jack Falstaff” meets Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House
Broomsticks at Happy Time
American victory in World War II was far from preordained
What's Love Got to Do with It?
To be willing to lose your life for your country.
O Captain, My Captain!
Young Abraham Lincoln does some good in the Blackhawk War.
Independence Forever!
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams celebrate their last Fourth of July.
Number 42
Why everyone in Major League Baseball wears that number every April 15
The Great Depression and the Cowboy Philosopher
A little humor can help get a country through hard times.