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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...
Often our New Year's resolutions are lighthearted, and usually, the flesh being weak, they are fleeting. Before Valentine's Day or maybe eve...
At the time of the American founding, celebrations of Christmas in America varied widely, from Puritans and Quakers who shunned or ignored i...
President Kennedy told a special joint session of Congress that it was "time for a great new American Enterprise."
December 7, 2021 is the 80 th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that brought America into World War II. It is one of many d...
After the American defeat in Vietnam in 1975, the communists confiscated the homes, businesses, property, and savings of those south Vietnam...
Sarah Josepha Hale was born in New Hampshire in 1788. In an era when the average American life expectancy was forty years, she lived until 1...
What makes Gettysburg America's most hallowed ground? A delegation of Russian historians at the height of the Cold War seemed to know, when...
"Chesty" Puller was a Marine's Marine. To this day, in Marine Corps boot camp, recruits are exhorted, "Do one more for Chesty! Chesty Puller...
Until the election of 1860, the truths proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence had been the ground of American civic friendship, above...
The election of 1800 in America came after a decade of bitter and extreme party strife. Each side accused the other of aiming to overthrow t...
Americans are being reminded how fragile and precious an achievement it is to establish the legitimate authority of government through peace...
P.G. Wodehouse was one of the best writers in the English language in the 20th century and the funniest. He wrote nearly 100 delightful book...
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...
During peak hours, in the 300 block of Brand Boulevard in the city of Glendale, in what is called "Metropolitan Los Angeles," you might see...
The Declaration's great American proclamation that "all men are created equal" and the first three words of the Constitution—"We the People"...
September 17 is Constitution Day in America because on that day in 1787, after 4 months of deliberations, the delegates at the Constitutiona...
Twenty-one years have come and gone since September 11, 2001 became "9/11." It is a day not just for mourning victims but for honoring heroe...
Frederick Bailey was born into slavery in 1818. With determination, courage, some help from others, and good luck, he managed to escape to f...
America's greatest enemy is not the Chinese or the Russians, or some other foreign tyranny—though they might indeed kill us if we continue s...
Every year in August, the oldest synagogue in America—Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island—holds a public reading of a letter written by...
The American story isn't just history. We write the American story ourselves every day with the choices we make as individuals and as a coun...
The beautiful 17-year-old actress Madeleine LeBeau fled Paris in June, 1940, just hours before the Germans marched in. Like thousands of oth...
One of the most popular films in Hollywood history, "Casablanca" seems to be composed of one famous line after another. For over 75 years, i...
Among the many challenges to the statesmanship of the framers of the Constitution, none was more fundamental or intractable than the problem...
Jefferson drafted the Declaration, a committee reviewed it, corrections were made, and on July 2-4, Congress—in the midst of much other pres...
Slavery has been around since the beginning of human history. It was practiced among the native peoples of north America before and after Eu...
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams celebrate their last Fourth of July.
Twenty-Twenty seems to have spread like a virus into 2021. A third of the way through the year and still across the country citizens bludgeo...
Back in that spring and summer of 1775, when he was just seven years old and the War for Independence swirled around him and his family, Joh...
Among many days worthy of remembrance, one that is often forgotten is June 8, 1789, when James Madison, in the first Congress under the newl...
John Wayne began life as Marion Morrison in Winterset, Iowa. After his family made its way to L.A., and an injury sidelined him from USC foo...
More than 4 million visitors come to Arlington National Cemetery every year from across America and around the world and, unless they have t...
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...
Great American philosopher, Lorenzo Pietro Berra, more commonly known as Yogi Berra, was a baseball legend. As a player with the New York Ya...
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 he...
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 th...
Why "the finest Shakespeare collection in the world" is in Washington, D.C.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow has been called, "the most popular poet in American history." When Longfellow wrote, few Americans remained who h...
Ben Hogan and "the purest stroke I've ever seen"
"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.
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 sq...
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 Comp...
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 dea...
A little humor can help get a country through hard times.
The Congress of the United States named him "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen"
Among the countless millions of human events postponed, rescheduled, or cancelled in the long hard year 2020, one was a gathering scheduled...
Young Abraham Lincoln does some good in the Blackhawk War.
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...
About the standard by which Americans judge the success and failure of their experiment in self-government
On New Year's Day 1863, President Lincoln signed the proclamation he had promised a hundred days before. Lincoln understood better than anyo...