I Kiss the Ground
One of America's greatest and most beloved film directors, Frank Capra, was just six years old when he arrived in New York on a steamer from Sicily with his poor Italian immigrant parents in 1903. Gro...
17 Maj 20226min
Ninety Percent Mental
Great American philosopher, Lorenzo Pietro Berra, more commonly known as Yogi Berra, was a baseball legend. As a player with the New York Yankees, he won Ten World Series championships, with 18 All-St...
10 Maj 20226min
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...
3 Maj 20227min
God Bless America
Israel Beilin was five years old when he and his family arrived in New York and, like the rest of the family, he spoke only Yiddish. With the help of Ellis Island clerks, printing accidents, and his o...
26 Apr 20227min
The Great Author of America
Why "the finest Shakespeare collection in the world" is in Washington, D.C.
19 Apr 20226min
Paul Revere's Ride
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow has been called, "the most popular poet in American history." When Longfellow wrote, few Americans remained who had a living memory of the American Revolution. With his poem...
12 Apr 20227min
One Iron
Ben Hogan and "the purest stroke I've ever seen"
5 Apr 20228min
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.
29 Mars 20226min
