Michael Patrick Murphy
This episode is about an American warship that carries on the name and the work of an American warrior. The ship and her crew operate in more than 48 million square miles of the Pacific and Indian Oce...
24 Mars 20207min
On the Way to BB's
If you are walking down Broadway in St. Louis on your way to BB's Jazz, Blues, and Soups, you will awaken to many American memories, among them a poem you probably already knew.
17 Mars 20206min
Standin' on a Corner
Things happen to a town, and then it's never the same. Or it's the same in some new way. Whatever it was before, it's hard to think of it now without the new thing. Like the Parthenon in Athens or the...
10 Mars 20206min
Bravest of the Brave
When you visit the historic Mound Cemetery in Marietta, Ohio, the guidebook informs you that, in addition to the ancient burial mound, the cemetery "contains more Revolutionary War officers' graves th...
3 Mars 20206min
Charlie Brown
There is more of Charlie Brown in most of us than there is Abraham Lincoln or Michael Jordan. We identify with his failures and suffer with him. But it isn't just his failures. Charlie Brown is resili...
25 Feb 20208min
Beautiful Goodness
As a Captain of Volunteers in the Black Hawk War, the 23-year old Abraham Lincoln managed in a desperate moment to keep some hard-bitten men—who had elected him—from committing murder. They had chosen...
18 Feb 20208min
Skunk Works
Beginning in a rented circus tent, a team of unconventional aeronautical engineers design generations of American military aircraft
11 Feb 20207min
The Great Houdini
The young Ehrich Weiss needed money, but he lived for fame. By the time he was 17, he had decided how to get it—he would become Houdini.
4 Feb 20207min
