The Great Author of America
Why "the finest Shakespeare collection in the world" is in Washington, D.C.
20 Apr 20217min
We Are All Americans
Ely Parker was born in 1828 to Elizabeth and William Parker of the Tonawanda Seneca tribe of the Iroquois confederacy in western New York. Parker became a leader in his tribe at a very young age, trai...
13 Apr 20215min
Purple Mountain Majesties
This story is about a teacher from a college in the East who was inspired by her travels West, especially by her experience summiting Pikes Peak, to write a poem that became an American anthem.
6 Apr 20216min
A Decent Respect
The "real American Revolution," as John Adams said, took place in the minds and hearts of the American people in the years leading up to 1776. This Revolution of thought gave birth to a Revolution of ...
30 Mar 20216min
Michael Patrick Murphy
This episode is about an American warrior and the warship that carries on his name. The ship and her crew operate in more than 48 million square miles of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The area is mor...
23 Mar 20218min
Field Photo Farm
Late in 1939, the eminent Hollywood movie director John Ford, who happened also to be an officer in the Naval Reserve, began organizing and training what became the Eleventh Naval District Motion Pict...
16 Mar 20217min
Battle Hymn of the Republic
It's not every day that a poet sits down and writes a poem that becomes a national hymn. But that's what happened to Julia Ward Howe in November 1861. The country was a year and a half into the Civil ...
9 Mar 20215min
Beauty and Brains
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, an...
2 Mar 20217min
