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...
22 Mar 20228min
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Isabella Beecher was outraged like many of her Boston neighbors by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law 1850. The new law, part of the Compromise of 1850, required citizens in free states to assist i...
15 Mar 20226min
Fingertip Memories
Helen Keller was 14 years old when she first met the world-famous Mark Twain in 1894. They became fast friends for life. Keller, who was deaf and blind, loved to listen to Twain tell his stories by pu...
8 Mar 20227min
The Great Depression and the Cowboy Philosopher
A little humor can help get a country through hard times.
1 Mar 20227min
Simple Truth
The Congress of the United States named him "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen"
22 Feb 20227min
War and Peace
Among the countless millions of human events postponed, rescheduled, or cancelled in the long hard year 2020, one was a gathering scheduled for an eight square mile volcanic island in the Pacific Ocea...
15 Feb 20226min
O Captain, My Captain!
Young Abraham Lincoln does some good in the Blackhawk War.
8 Feb 20227min
Catching Excellence
The son of an Italian immigrant, Vincent Thomas Lombardi was born in Brooklyn on June 11, 1913. He played guard in the famed Seven Blocks of Granite offensive line of Fordham University in the 1930s b...
1 Feb 20226min
